EXHIBIT 31


        CERTIFICATION UNDER SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

         I, Elwin M. Beaty, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial
Officer of Scanner Technologies Corporation, certify that:

1.      I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-KSB of Scanner
Technologies Corporation;

2.      Based on my knowledge, this annual report does not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of
the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with
respect to the period covered by this annual report;

3.      Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
information included in this annual report, fairly present in all material
respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the
small business issuer as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4.      I am responsible for the establishing and maintaining disclosure
controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and
15d-15(e)) for the small business issuer and have:

a)      Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such
disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to
ensure that material information relating to the small business issuer,
including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within
those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being
prepared;

b)      Evaluated the effectiveness of the small business issuer's disclosure
controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the
effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the
period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

c)      Disclosed in this report any change in the small business issuer's
internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the small
business issuer's most recent quarter (the small business issuer's fourth
quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is
reasonably likely to materially affect, the small business issuer's internal
control over financial reporting; and

5.      I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal
control over financial reporting, to the small business issuer's auditors and
the audit committee of the small business issuer's board of directors (or
persons performing the equivalent functions):

a)      All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or
operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably
likely to adversely affect the small business issuer's ability to record,
process, summarize and report financial information; and

b)      Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other
employees who have a significant role in the small business issuer's control
over financial reporting.


                                            By:   /s/Elwin M. Beaty
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       Dated: March 14, 2005                    Elwin M. Beaty
                                                Chief Executive Officer and
                                                    Chief Financial Officer