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Pocket microscope with accessory for ordinary smart phone Date: February 15, 2012 Source: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Summary: Engineers have developed an optical accessory that turns ...

Placing it on the phone’s camera gets me into microscope range but for taking pictures only, as I can just use the lens in hand. Inspection is where I have to use the lens at all, not for soldering.

The cell-phone microscope could also be useful for TB therapy, Lam says. TB patients must be directly observed taking their medication over several weeks, to prevent drug resistance buildup.

And the backbone of a lot of portable medical diagnostic devices is a mobile phone-based microscope. You may not think of your mobile phone as being anything like a microscope, but it has almost ...

Because the microscope works with the phone's regular camera, it can also be used to record videos. Nurugo sought $50,000 in funding on Kickstarter, where it has so far raised more than $150,000 ...

[Yoshinok] recently posted an Instructable on doing a $10 smartphone-to-microscope conversion. The hack isn’t so much a conversion as just a handy jig, but it’s still interesting. The b… ...

A young graduate at the University of Washington has developed a lens that attaches to a smartphone’s camera to make a high quality microscope. All smartphones have a camera, many of them with ...