Make 1000-Fold Microscope From Your Smartphone

Now everyone can make your smartphone a complete scientific instrument, equipping it with a microscope at 1000 × magnification. Unbelievable, but looking at the screen of your smartphone, you can test yourself on the presence in the body of anthrax or plague sticks reveal in their blood parasites to study the composition of saliva and more. The main thing is that all this is virtually free!


Camera smartphones are great for many things, but with their help it is impossible to consider the ultra-small objects, such as salt crystals or blood cells. Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (USA) have come up with how to use the smart phone at home, you can open up a world of "microscopic" adventure.

Enough to get an ordinary glass ball, one of those that used to retro-reflective markings of transport, and fix it before the camera of your gadget. Fasteners for the ball, you can try to do it yourself or print the 3D-printer for granted scientists   settings . Glass bead can be easily inserted in the printed mount, then this design is worn on a smartphone or tablet. Total costs, excluding print the 3D-printer, amount to no more than $ 1.

Researchers have developed three types of fasteners for multiple versions of a microscope with different magnifications. 100-fold model allows us to study the structure of plants, using a 350-fold microscope, you can search the parasites in the blood or water, 1000-fold microscope allows us to consider even anthrax.