Turn your smartphone camera into a microscope with this 3D-printed accessory

Get the Full StoryOK, 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.

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...More about Australia, Science, Smartphone, 3d Printing, and Microscope

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