# SECURITIES AND
EXCHANGE COMMISSIONWashington, D.C. 20549

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# FORM S-8

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# REGISTRATION STATEMENTUnderThe Securities
Act of 1933

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SCANNER TECHNOLOGIES
CORPORATION(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

|New Mexico                                                     | 85-0169650                            
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|(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation
or Organization) | (I.R.S. EmployerIdentification Number)

14505 21st Avenue
North, Suite 220Minneapolis, MN 55447(Address of Principal
Executive Office and Zip Code)

Scanner Technologies
Corporation 2004 Equity Incentive Plan(Full Title of the Plan)

Elwin M. BeatyPresident, Chief
Executive Officer and Chief Financial OfficerScanner Technologies Corporation 
14505 21st Avenue North, Suite 220Minneapolis, MN 55447(763) 476-8271(Name, Address and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)

Copies to:
Robert K. Ranum, Esq. Fredrikson & Byron,
P.A.200 South Sixth Street, Suite 4000Minneapolis, Minnesota
55402(612) 492-7000

|CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE                     
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|Options to Purchase Common Stock under the 2004 Plan
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|Common Stock issuable under the 2004 Plan           
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|TOTAL:                                              
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|(1) |  | In
addition,  pursuant  to  Rule  416  under  the  Securities  Act  of  1933,  this
Registration  Statement also covers an  indeterminate  amount of interests to be
offered or sold pursuant to the employee  benefit plan described  herein and any
additional  securities  which may  become  issuable  pursuant  to  anti-dilution
provisions of the plan.
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|(2) |  | Estimated
pursuant to Rule 457(h) solely for the purpose of calculating  the  registration
fee  and  based   upon  the   average   of  the  high  and  low  prices  of  the
Registrants Common Stock on November 2, 2005.
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The
purpose of this Registration Statement is to register additional shares for issuance under
the Registrants 2004 Equity Incentive Plan. The contents of the Registrants
Registration Statement on Form S-8, Reg. No. 333-118510 are incorporated herein by
reference.

# SIGNATURES

Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has
reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8
and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Minneapolis and State of Minnesota,
on the 8th day of November, 2005.

| | SCANNER TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION                              
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| | (the Registrant)                                            
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| | Elwin M. Beaty                                                
| | President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief
Financial Officer

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Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been
signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

(Power of Attorney)

Each
of the undersigned constitutes and appoints Elwin M. Beaty and David P. Mork his true and
lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting alone, with full powers of substitution and
resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to
sign the Form S-8 Registration Statement of Scanner Technologies Corporation relating to
the Scanner Technologies Corporation 2004 Equity Incentive Plan and any or all amendments
or post-effective amendments to the Form S-8 Registration Statement, and to file the same,
with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, each
acting alone, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and
purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, or their substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

|Signature                  |  | Title                                      |  | Date            
|-------------------------- |  | ------------------------------------------ |  | ----------------
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|/s/   Elwin M. Beaty       |  | President, Chief Executive Officer,        |  | November 8, 2005
|                           |  | Chief Financial Officer and Director       | 
|Elwin M. Beaty             |  | (principal executive officer and principal | 
|                           |  | financial and accounting officer)          | 
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|/s/   David P. Mork        |  | Senior Vice President and Director         |  | November 8, 2005
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|David P. Mork              |  |                                            | 
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|/s/   Michael A. Thorsland |  | Director                                   |  | November 8, 2005
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|Michael A. Thorsland       |  |                                            | 
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|/s/   Betsy Brenden Radtke |  | Director                                   |  | November 8, 2005
|                           |  |                                            | 
|Betsy Brenden Radtke       |  |                                            | 

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# SECURITIES AND
EXCHANGE COMMISSIONWashington, D.C. 20549

# SCANNER TECHNOLOGIES
CORPORATION

# Form S-8 Registration
Statement

# EXHIBIT INDEX

|ExhibitNumber |  |  | Exhibit Description
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|5 |  |  | Opinion
and Consent of Fredrikson & Byron,  P.A.  relating to the legality of securities
under the 2004 Equity Incentive Plan
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|23.1 |  |  | Consent
of Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. (See Exhibit 5)
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|23.2 |  |  | Consent
of Lurie Besikof Lapidus & Company, LLP
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|24 |  |  | Power
of Attorney (See Signature Page)
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