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 ...

Promising up to 1000x magnification, the SkyBasic wireless digital microscope turns your smartphone into a portable ...

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 ...

Scientists working in rural Tanzania have used a simple US$8 (Rs 435) glass lens, a strip of double-sided tape, and a cheap flashlight to convert an iPhone into a microscope that can successfully ...

Californian scientist have used a phone as the basis of a low-cost medical microscope for the developing world, with built-in image analysis. Prototypes have allowed the diagnosis of malaria, sickle ...

RICHLAND, Wash. – At one o'clock in the morning, layers of warm plastic are deposited on the platform of the 3D printer that sits on scientist Rebecca Erikson's desk. A small plastic housing, designed ...

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 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 very ...

We have several AmScope binocular microscopes for doing electronics assembly and inspection. Sometimes we need to take photos. AmScope has this Eyepiece Mounted Mobile Device Mount for Microscopes & ...

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 ...

A ball lens was stuck to the iPhone's camera lens using double-sided tape Credit: Photo: ISAAC BOGOCH Scientists attached a £5 lens to the Apple iPhone using double-sized tape and, with the addition ...