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December 15, 2019

Diple Smartphone Microscope Review: A Bargain-Priced Optical Powerhouse

Diple Smartphone Microscope Review: A Bargain-Priced Optical Powerhouse
It’s pretty amazing what smartphone cameras are capable of these days. I used to carry around lots of camera gear to events, and with very few exceptions now, my iPhone 11 Pro Max is all I bring with me.…
December 9, 2016

Foldscope Is a 140x Microscope That Fits in Your Pocket

Foldscope Is a 140x Microscope That Fits in Your Pocket
There is a whole universe that we can only see through a microscope. But high powered microscopes are cumbersome and often quite expensive. The Foldscope can help you check out the microscopic world and goes anywhere.…
May 23, 2016

Stick-on Smartphone Macro & Micro Lenses: Blips

Stick-on Smartphone Macro & Micro Lenses: Blips
Earlier this year, we checked out the ScopeAround, a set of affordable scientific cameras that stream video to smartphones. But if you’re looking for something even simpler and cheaper, check out SmartMicroOptics’ Blips, a pair of macro and micro lenses that you stick over your mobile device’s camera.…
January 28, 2016

ScopeAround Modular Wireless Camera: Explore, Examine, Enhance

ScopeAround Modular Wireless Camera: Explore, Examine, Enhance
Mobile devices have become so popular as both still and video cameras that we now have lens attachments for phones and videocamera rigs for tablets. The ScopeAround system aims to add to that revolution by making affordable versions of scientific cameras that stream video to iOS or Android devices.…
August 1, 2014

LEGO Microscope Mk. II is Functional: 10x Cooler

LEGO Microscope Mk. II is Functional: 10x Cooler
Last year we featured Carl Merriam’s LEGO Microscope. It turns out he actually made an improved version shortly after making that one. His LEGO Microscope Mk.…
March 10, 2014

Origami-based Paper Microscope Costs Less than $1 to Make: Foldscope

Origami-based Paper Microscope Costs Less than $1 to Make: Foldscope
High quality microscopes cost thousands of dollars and can be hard to operate and maintain. A group of researchers from Stanford University are close to changing that with a microscope that’s made mostly out of paper and costs less than a dollar to make.…
February 1, 2014

You’ve Got It In You, Now Wear It: Chromosome Jewelry

You’ve Got It In You, Now Wear It: Chromosome Jewelry
Genes, chromosomes, DNA. We all know it’s complicated, but who knew it could be so beautiful? Electron microscopist Louise Hughes is passionate about microscopy and the genetic structures that she has studied and observed.…
July 15, 2013

LEGO Microscope Examines Studs Not Slides

LEGO Microscope Examines Studs Not Slides
Flickr member/Artist/Legologist Carl Merriam loves making functional sculptures out of his favorite medium. Take this microscope for instance. It’s not high tech enough for CSI: Legoland, but it does have a magnifying glass inside and working focus knobs.…
May 1, 2013

Star Trek Gets Animated at the Atomic Level

Star Trek Gets Animated at the Atomic Level
We just posted the world’s smallest stop-motion animation over on The Awesomer earlier today, and now it turns out that’s not the only animation IBM’s team of scientists have created.…
April 25, 2013

ProScope Micro Mobile Turns Your iPhone or iPad into a Microscope

ProScope Micro Mobile Turns Your iPhone or iPad into a Microscope
Bodelin Technologies has unveiled a new product that turns your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad into a fully functional microscope. The microscope itself has precision optical glass and supports magnification of 20x to 80x.…
March 13, 2012

Nanoscale 3D Printing Renders Tiny Race Car and More

Nanoscale 3D Printing Renders Tiny Race Car and More
3D printers are changing the world – now on a microscopic scale as well. Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have perfected printing 3D objects at the nanoscale and it looks like they are having a great time playing with their new toy.…
March 23, 2011

Single Lens Captures Images in 3D

Single Lens Captures Images in 3D
Up until now, the only ways I knew that you could shoot images in 3D was either with a dual lens camera, with two cameras, or some sort of motion-control rig.…
December 21, 2010

World’s Smallest Periodic Table Fits on a Single Hair

World’s Smallest Periodic Table Fits on a Single Hair
Happy Birthday, Professor Martyn Poliakoff! Your lab-mates at the University of Nottingham’s Nanotechnology Centre have made you a birthday present.…
October 9, 2010

Microscopic Pac-Man

Microscopic Pac-Man
Earlier this week, I read about a tiny Pac-Man discovered with an electron microscope. But that was just a random scientific anomaly. Turns out there’s a real microscopic Pac-Man out there, and you can actually play it!…
January 24, 2010

Imicroscope Lets Your iPhone Take Perfect Pics of the Miniature World Around Us

Imicroscope Lets Your iPhone Take Perfect Pics of the Miniature World Around Us
While I knew for a while that you could use the iPhone’s camera to take really close up pictures of stuff, this is the first time I’ve seen an app that’s designed to help you take high quality scientific images with your iPhone’s camera.…
July 3, 2007

USB Microscope Cam: Play Doctor With Yourself

USB Microscope Cam: Play Doctor With Yourself
This frightening looking gadget from Japan lets you examine every nasty little nook and cranny of yourself and capture on your computer it for prosperity. Thanko’s USB Microscope Camera features a high-detail digital camera attached to the end of a long LED illuminated tube.…