Java non-blocking I/O operations....?

Folks,

I'm trying to close a thread in my program, but it wont let me as there is an I/O call in the thread that is blocking and waiting for input

this is the run method inside my thread class

class myThreadName extends Thread
{
public void run() 
	{
			
			Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
			int input = in.nextInt();
			if (input >= myObject.nextPrice())
			{
				// print to the console
				// call some method
			}
			
			
	}
}

I'm instantiaing a new thread in the main program and using mythreadname.start() to get it going. mythreadname.stop() wont stop it and neither will suspend(), interrupt() etc...

Does Java have any non-blocking I/O operations in its API? even some sort of I/O timeout might work if its there but i cant find anything helpful in google

Cheers Lads... any ideas appreciated