Thanks to over 4,000 backers the amazingly powerful iMicro Q2p phone microscope campaign on Kickstarter has raised over $250,000 and has now entered its final week. Offering an affordable, tiny ...

Your smartphone could soon be a fully functional microscope capable of examining samples as small as 1/200th of a millimeter. Australian researchers have developed a clip-on device that requires no ...

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is pushing its mobile phone microscope tech -- based on 3-D printing and inexpensive glass beads -- out to the public. A national research laboratory has ...

If you would like to harness the power of your mobile phones cameras to be able to explore a world normally hidden from sight. You might be interested in a new HD optical phone microscope now ...

Want a microscope to attach to your smart phone? If you have access to a three-dimensional printer, you can make one using materials costing pennies and design specifications Pacific Northwest ...

Attention nerds: If you like gadgets for your smartphone and you love optical microscopes, today is the day you kiss me full on the mouth. Using twice the magnification power of a jeweler’s loupe, and ...

Using a microscope can be a fun activity for both kids and adults. That’s why the crew at 60x are creating a microscope that will work with your smartphone’s camera. The 60x Field Microscope is ...

An engineer at UCLA has created a substitute for microscopes by using about $10 of off-the-shelf hardware and a mobile phone. Aydogan Ozcan has already formed a start-up, Microskia, around the new ...

A 3-D-printed device that transforms a smartphone into a fully operational microscope could help diagnose diseases in developing countries. Researchers from Australia's Centre of Excellence for ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Blips’ stick-on lenses super-charge your phone’s camera, but good results take effort Blips’ stick-on lenses ...

Smartphones are notorious for their poor camera quality. So it comes as a slight surprise that smartphones' photography capabilities are being utilized to study viruses. Dr. Aydogan Ozcan of UCLA and ...

Antony Orth receives funding from the Australian Research Council. For a lot of medical diagnostics, you need to look at small stuff – down to the level of individual cells. To do that, you need a ...