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

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 ...

iMicro Q2p is a new tiny phone microscope designed to be used with almost any modern smart phone whether it be Android or iOS powered, allowing you to discover a world normally hidden from view. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Contemporary cellular phones can perform a seemingly endless variety of functions, from taking photographs and videos to guiding people through rush hour traffic. You may not even be aware of this, ...

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 ...

There are now various attachments that allow you to capture microscope-scale images with your smartphone. Unfortunately, however, the limitations of the phone's lens and image sensor mean that those ...

We've seen devices that let you attach your smartphone to a microscope, but they require you to have access to a microscope in the first place. What if you don't? Well, that's where the MicrobeScope ...

A new mobile phone microscope that uses video to automatically detect and quantify infection by parasitic worms in a drop of blood has been developed by researchers. This next generation of CellScope ...

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 ...