Portable handheld scanner?

[menace]

Anyone have one?  Anyone recommend a good one?--the idea is to scan sideart without trying to press my whole flatbed scanner against the side of the machine.  I plan to use guides (actually its a hockey stick and wood clamps but guides sounds more professional...) to make sure I get straight scans.

Just wondered if the technology is finally there to get a decent 300DPI scan of a whole side of a machine easily....

[Le Chuck]

With the amazing quality of DSLR cameras these days why don't you just photograph it, use the raw file and color correct it as needed? 

But to your questions I haven't seen a hand held scanner in years anywhere but back in the day the stiching software was good so I don't think you'd need guides. Just overlap.

[menace]

Thats assuming I have a DSLR camera (which I don't) or planning on getting one(which I don't)  Also, I have done the photo+stitching route in the past and between lighting differences, weird distortions at the edges, minute distance differences that have to be photoshopped out, I have found the scanning route to be far superior (I guess results vary depending on equipment..)