That’s the magic (and mild horror) of this pocket-sized digital microscope. With 80x magnification and built-in photo and video recording, it turns a simple walk outside into a full-blown nature ...

Microscopes quite literally gave us a whole new way of looking at the world, and now you can bring that power anywhere with this portable one. It only weighs half a pound, and it's far easier to ...

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If you’d like something useful to do with this now-obsolete technology, you can have a try at turning one into a laser microscope. This build requires two DVD pickups. By scanning once ...

What do you get when you cross a day job as a Medical Histopathologist with an interest in 3D printing and programming? You get a fully-baked Open Source microscope, specifically the Portable ...

The ZDM-360 Panoramic Digital Video Microscope adds a new dimension to portable inspection. View the sample from above, or switch to an angled view — up to 45 degrees from any direction.

Moving Target Analysis - Easily quantify and analyze motion that was previously impossible. Magnified Observation - Perfect as a portable microscope for on-site magnified observation.