Great find Joe - I have trouble finding things I just put down. Looks like some have been toying with this idea for a while now. I know you can get digital scan backs for high end repro and product photography but I had not heard of anyone using a desktop scanner before. Now all I need is Audi to pay for my experiments :D

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html