Posted by ketyung
on Nov/09/2009
at 8:58 am
Health-conscious geeks may love the idea of having your cellphone to double up as a microscope which you could use it to sniff out any bugs and germs around. An assistant professor of electrical engineering of University of California’s NanoSystems Institute, Aydogan Ozcan, has designed a cellphone microscope that allows you to screen diseases on the run.
The assistant professor only spent a mere $10 for some parts, plus a software he wrote to enable a cellphone to magnify like a microscope. There are no lens and mechanical scanning involved, the magnification solely depends on the software, LEDs, holograms and electronics.
This method of integrating a microscope into the cellphone is simply low in cost, and some more it does not sacrifice any portability. Ozcan’s cellphone microphone is easy to use, allows future system based on this design to diagnose or research better than a traditional microscope.
via gizmowatch
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