Between calling, texting and updating social media, people will soon be able to use their cell phones as a microscope powerful enough to detect viruses. Aydogan Ozcan, a professor of electrical ...

[Steve] really has a nice microscope setup in his lab now that he built a video camera adapter for his stereo microscope. The image above shows the magnified view of the circuit board on the LCD ...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have built a cheap 3D-printed attachment able to turn smartphones into sophisticated microscopes. Armed with the new device, a ...

Smartphones are everywhere, and the apps that run on them never cease to amaze. It seems that everything (from fitness trackers to GPS monitoring to cosmic ray detectors) has been released for ...

Although a microscope smartphone adapter always seemed like an inevitability, that doesn't make it any less cool now that it's here. Andy Mill and Tess Bakke from SkyLight stopped by the Gadget Lab to ...

We have seen quite a few different accessories for the iPhone 4, and the latest one will turn your iPhone 4’s camera into a microscope, allowing you to see things at up to 60x magnification. This ...

Mobile phones have become one of the most universal pieces of advanced technology in the world, and they are about to become even more vital. Aydogan Ozcan of UCLA has developed a microscope ...

CellScope is a UC Berkeley project designed to enable microscopic image captures from a cell phone's camera. At first it might sound like a pointlessly geeky project to do microscopy on a cell phone, ...

With a smartphone and a $400 microscope attachment, scientists now can measure the length of individual DNA molecules (ACS Nano 2014, DOI: 10.1021/nn505821y). Developed by Aydogan Ozcan and colleagues ...

A team of engineers at UCLA has created a 3D-printed attachment that enables smartphone cameras to image particles as small as 90 nanometers. This makes it the first portable, cellphone-based imaging ...

The SkyLight is really a simple device derived to solve a simple problem: how to keep your smartphone still enough to take high quality photos through a microscope. Watching other people holding their ...

[Ben Krasnow] is capturing some great snapshots using a microscope adapter and some tricks. The camera attachment is just a lens adapter ring with a tube added. Unlike other microscope imaging hacks ...