Sometimes, you never knew you wanted something until someone drops it in your lap. That’s exactly what Bodelin Technologies has done with their smartphone-powered ProScope Micro Mobile microscope.

This article discusses what a digital microscope is, how it works, and the benefits of using one. It also provides some examples of how they are used. Rather than using an eyepiece, a digital ...

Lego artist Carl Merriman has built a fully functional compound microscope out of Lego bricks. A clever use of magnifying glasses, adjustable knobs, and LEDs gives the LEGO Microscope MkII its 10x ...

Every day, like in a blink of an eye, something great gets created. Thanks to the wonders of technology and to the brains that never stop innovating. Previously, we simply use mobile phones for ...

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have created what sounds impossible - even nonsensical: an experimental electron microscope without lenses that not only works, but is orders of magnitude ...

Great things come in small packages and now scientists have an easier way to see what they look like thanks to a new microscope that creates high-resolution, 3-D images of structures measured in ...

Light microscopy is used to make small structures and samples visible by providing a magnified image of how they interact with visible light, e.g., their absorption, reflection and scattering. This is ...

To observe living cells through a microscope, a sample is usually squeezed onto a glass slide. It then lies there calmly and the cells are observable. The disadvantage is that this limits how the ...

LAKE OSWEGO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bodelin Technologies, known for their ProScope handheld microscopes, have sunk to new depths to prove their ProScope Micro Mobile will work in any environment, ...

We’ve featured many weird and wonderful Lego creations here on Geek Gadgets over the years, but now Lego master builder Carl Merriman has created a fully functional Lego microscope. Carl has been ...

This working Lego microscope was built by Carl Merriman, a Lego artist who’s been building for over 27 years. It’s sleek, functional and even though you couldn’t use it to study Ebola or the T-Virus, ...