From app developers to accessories makers, the world has turned the iPhone into a kind of digital Swiss knife that can do nearly anything. Now a new startup wants to add scientific research to ...

Attention nerds: If you like gadgets for your smartphone and you love optical microscopes, today is the day you kiss me full on the mouth. Using twice the magnification power of a jeweler’s ...

Illumination tunnels The clip-on attachment has been engineered with internal illumination “tunnels”. They guide light from the camera’s flash to illuminate the sample from behind. This overcomes ...

A 3D printable clip-on that can turn any smartphone into a microscope has been developed by the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics.

Melbourne, Feb 20 (PTI) Scientists have developed a 3D printable “clip-on” that allows anyone to turn their smartphone into a fully functional microscope.The smartphone microscope is powerful enou ...

Smartphone clip-on turns your iPhone into a high-powered microscope Scientific research power is now something you can toss into your pocket.

Reported in Scientific Reports, the clip-on microscope requires no external power or light source and is powerful enough to visualise specimens as small as 1/200th of a millimetre.

Researchers from Australia's Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) developed the clip-on microscope for use in remote areas, where standard microscopes are impractical or unavailable.