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Staring down a microscope is an expensive, tedious, neck and back wrenching affair. So, I’m all for anything that makes it easier and cheaper. This smartphone adapter allows you to quickly use your phone as a viewfinder for any microscope.
It attaches to one of the microscope’s eyepieces using a rubber seal to block out light. The plastic frame then holds your smartphone in place over the eyepiece, allowing it to capture images down the microscope. Considering using a proper camera and display with a microscope is both expensive and not always possible with older equipment; something that’s simple, easy to attach and allows you to use existing hardware is a great idea. Currently its on Kickstarter with a target of $15,000 or around £9,600, so let’s hope it gets funded and actually put into production. [SkyLight via Ubergizmo]
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Fantastic! All i need now is a microscope to look through, time to get to work on that Christmas List….
This sounds a bit pointless because surely this will alter image as the clarity etc will be dependent on the screen. If that is the case, then you are not getting a true representation of the object being microscoped and thus there is no point in mircoscoping it.
It would be like using a telescope and using your smartphone to represent the image – might as well just look at high-def pictures instead.
If you’re worried about image quality you won’t be using a standard light microscope like that. You’ll be using something a whole lot more expensive and camera equipped. So for the casual examination that you’ll use a standard light microscope for, this kind of thing would be great.
Fair enough, although I’m not sure I’d want to pay £9,600 for casual examinations.
They won’t be £9,600 each! Or at least I hope not. Then again it wouldn’t surprise me if it sells for something of a joke price. Microbiology materials and equipment is incredibly expensive.