Have you ever been out and needed to fax a paper document, but the only electronic device on you is your cell phone? It has happenned to me countless times, and usually results in me running home or heading to the nearest Kinkos. ScanR might be the solution to this pretty common inconvenience; it lets anyone with a 1.3 Megapixel or better,  fax documents via their cell phone. All you have to do is snap a picture of the document, e-mail it too doc@scanr.com, and put the fax number in the text body. ScanR will send you a confirmation text message once the fax has been sent. In case you are skeptical, they are currently offerring a free trial.

Unfortunately, many people don’t have a camera phone with a 1.3 megapixel camera. But higher megapixel camera phones are becoming more and more widespread, especially with Windows Mobile Handsets. Five years from now this sort of service will probably be as common place as receiving a fax by e-mail, but for the meantime this is a pretty a cool novelty to discover.