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02-20-2018, 12:10 PM
Turn your smartphone camera into a microscope with this 3D-printed accessory
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OK, so you can't bring a microscope everywhere with you.
But you can certainly take this 3D-printed version, designed to clip onto your smartphone and work with its camera.
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The device was developed by researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) at Australia's RMIT University, and is the subject of a paper in Scientific Reports (http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21543-2).
Requiring no external power or lighting source, the smartphone microscope is slated to be a handy tool for conducting fieldwork in remote areas, especially when bringing a larger microscope is impractical or unavailable. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/19/smartphone-microscope-3d-printed/)
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OK, so you can't bring a microscope everywhere with you.
But you can certainly take this 3D-printed version, designed to clip onto your smartphone and work with its camera.
SEE ALSO: Put your vital signs on show with this ultrathin, stick-on skin display (https://mashable.com/2018/02/18/ultrathin-skin-display-japan/)
The device was developed by researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) at Australia's RMIT University, and is the subject of a paper in Scientific Reports (http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21543-2).
Requiring no external power or lighting source, the smartphone microscope is slated to be a handy tool for conducting fieldwork in remote areas, especially when bringing a larger microscope is impractical or unavailable. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/19/smartphone-microscope-3d-printed/)
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