Eye
Scanning
Scanning noun - The act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission.
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- In Demolition Man, Simon takes a man's eye out with a fountain pen - in order to fool a retina scanning lock.
Source: Eye Scream / Film -
Kim Peek note the inspiration for Rain Man was able to read a book an hour scanning the left page with his left eye and the right page with his right eye.
Source: Super Speed Reading -
His character Malcolm Tucker gets several Eye Takes per episode, but the longest is probably the one of his eyes scanning the headline "MALCOLM TUCKER RESIGNS".
Source: Eye Take
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