Turn an iPhone into an Amazingly Inexpensive Photomicroscope

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An awesome iPhone hack that I’m definitely going to try, via Gizmodo: How To Turn Your iPhone Into A Microscope For Only $10.

These odd images were all taken using an iPhone cleverly equipped with a 45x microscope. The best part though? You can add such an upgrade to your own iPhone for about $10.

Here’s the video showing how to attach the mini-microscope to an inexpensive iPhone case:

Youtube Video

I’ve already ordered the microscope from Amazon: SE Mini 45X Microscope w/ Illuminator. $10.43.

And the iPhone case from monoprice.com: TPU Case for iPhone 4 - Clear | iPhone Cases. Less than $3.00, including shipping. Yes, really.

And don’t forget the Krazy Glue.

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32 comments
1 dwells38  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:04:28pm

HOW COOL IS THAT?????

I want it!

2 Crimsonfisted  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:05:40pm

And for the Droid in 3...2....1?

3 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:10:53pm

I can't think of an application other than "hey! it's cool!"

4 Crimsonfisted  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:12:55pm

re: #3 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I can't think of an application other than "hey! it's cool!"

You don't have kids? Grandkids?

5 Irenicum  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:13:40pm

Is this real? 'Cause if it is, I just may hafta go into more debt to get one!

6 Killgore Trout  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:15:30pm

re: #3 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I can't think of an application other than "hey! it's cool!"

I would love one for work stuff. I could email high def close ups of violin purfling from an auction to a friend who might know it the instrument is authentic. An endoscope attachment would be super cool too for inspecting the inside of a cello or violin looking for signatures, stamps or repairs/flaws.

7 Political Atheist  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:16:22pm

Like a pinhole camera with macro zoom. Nice.

8 darthstar  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:17:03pm

Does it still drop calls?
//\//

9 Crimsonfisted  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:19:01pm

re: #8 darthstar

Does it still drop calls?
////

We NEED a funny upding icon. Now THAT'S funny.

(The last two days for me have stunk on ice and the funny here cracks me up.)

10 dwells38  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:19:16pm

re: #3 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Well let me tell ya pal that comment was just so ......

OK totally accurate.

I STILL WANT ONE!! :)

11 Charles Johnson  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:19:50pm

Robert Spencer must be getting pumped up for the big day tomorrow. He just posted a link to an article arguing that Jesus would have burned Qurans.

[Link: www.jihadwatch.org...]

Notice the URL of this page: the original title was "Furnish: Burn, Baby, Burn."

12 jamesfirecat  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:22:06pm

re: #11 Charles

Robert Spencer must be getting pumped up for the big day tomorrow. He just posted a link to an article arguing that Jesus would have burned Qurans.

[Link: www.jihadwatch.org...]

Notice the URL of this page: the original title was "Furnish: Burn, Baby, Burn."

WWJI

What Would Jesus Imolate?

13 dwells38  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:23:50pm

Just like I want one of these:

Youtube Video
14 Gus  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:23:53pm

re: #11 Charles

Robert Spencer must be getting pumped up for the big day tomorrow. He just posted a link to an article arguing that Jesus would have burned Qurans.

[Link: www.jihadwatch.org...]

Notice the URL of this page: the original title was "Furnish: Burn, Baby, Burn."

So now Robert Spencer is speaking for Jesus? My oh my how delusional this man is.

15 Kragar  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:24:35pm

re: #11 Charles

Robert Spencer must be getting pumped up for the big day tomorrow. He just posted a link to an article arguing that Jesus would have burned Qurans.

[Link: www.jihadwatch.org...]

Notice the URL of this page: the original title was "Furnish: Burn, Baby, Burn."

I think they're confusing Jesus with Khorne.

16 jamesfirecat  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:26:45pm

re: #15 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I think they're confusing Jesus with Khorne.

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

17 Killgore Trout  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:27:22pm

re: #11 Charles

Robert Spencer must be getting pumped up for the big day tomorrow. He just posted a link to an article arguing that Jesus would have burned Qurans.

[Link: www.jihadwatch.org...]

Notice the URL of this page: the original title was "Furnish: Burn, Baby, Burn."

He might be right. JC, real or imagined, was a 1st century religious figure and probably wasn't very tolerant of blasphemy or other religions.

18 Jadespring  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:28:29pm

re: #11 Charles

Robert Spencer must be getting pumped up for the big day tomorrow. He just posted a link to an article arguing that Jesus would have burned Qurans.

[Link: www.jihadwatch.org...]

Notice the URL of this page: the original title was "Furnish: Burn, Baby, Burn."

You know I took a break from not just LGF but pretty much all blogs, news, websites etc way back when and it turned into a much longer break then I thought it would be. I guess I was just enjoying my 'ignorance of the bad crazy bliss too much." Decided that I can't keep my head in the sand forever and am peeking in again. Stuff like this makes me just want to go dig a deeper hole for my head. LOL

Gah it's just seems to all have gotten worse.... ---sigh----

19 jamesfirecat  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:28:41pm

re: #17 Killgore Trout

He might be right. JC, real or imagined, was a 1st century religious figure and probably wasn't very tolerant of blasphemy or other religions.

Hey if they don't have to deal with the realities that Ronald Reagan raised taxes we don't have to deal with the fact that Jesus wasn't a shoeless hippie!

20 Killgore Trout  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:29:36pm

re: #18 Jadespring

You know I took a break from not just LGF but pretty much all blogs, news, websites etc way back when and it turned into a much longer break then I thought it would be. I guess I was just enjoying my 'ignorance of the bad crazy bliss too much." Decided that I can't keep my head in the sand forever and am peeking in again. Stuff like this makes me just want to go dig a deeper hole for my head. LOL

Gah it's just seems to all have gotten worse... ---sigh---

Welcome back. We've rearranged the furniture a bit but it's still the same old place.

21 Irenicum  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:29:38pm

re: #11 Charles

I'm a Christian. And Robert Spencer is no Christian. (yeah, that's a quote steal. But hey)

22 Jadespring  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:30:38pm

re: #17 Killgore Trout

He might be right. JC, real or imagined, was a 1st century religious figure and probably wasn't very tolerant of blasphemy or other religions.

He would have burned something that said things that didn't even exist yet? Amazing guy. :D

23 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:31:05pm

Hey kids...

Click my avatar... a very sweet picture of The Boyfriend and my daughter taken today.

She loves that young man... can you see it?

He's home and adjusting to life very well, it appears.

24 dwells38  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:32:01pm

re: #23 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Lucky dog he is. Good for them!

25 Crimsonfisted  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:32:11pm

re: #13 dwells38

Just like I want one of these:


[Video]

You have to be 100 years old to recognize a turntable.
/did I just out myself?

26 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:32:57pm

Hoops? You still here?

27 Stanghazi  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:33:55pm

re: #7 Rightwingconspirator

Like a pinhole camera with macro zoom. Nice.

You must check out this twitter feed - Petapixel (Charles too)

[Link: twitter.com...]

28 Interesting Times  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:34:44pm

re: #18 Jadespring

You know I took a break from not just LGF but pretty much all blogs, news, websites etc way back when and it turned into a much longer break then I thought it would be. I guess I was just enjoying my 'ignorance of the bad crazy bliss too much." Decided that I can't keep my head in the sand forever and am peeking in again. Stuff like this makes me just want to go dig a deeper hole for my head. LOL

Gah it's just seems to all have gotten worse... ---sigh---

Seems you picked a bad day to quit drinking avoiding political websites ;) (seriously though, good to see you back, and glad to hear your absence was due to personal choice rather than some catastrophic life event! Couldn't help but worry a bit when I realized how long you'd been gone...)

29 Jadespring  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:42:31pm

re: #28 publicityStunted

Seems you picked a bad day to quit drinking avoiding political websites ;) (seriously though, good to see you back, and glad to hear your absence was due to personal choice rather than some catastrophic life event! Couldn't help but worry a bit when I realized how long you'd been gone...)

Would there have been any good days? ;)

Yeah I honestly didn't plan on staying away as long as I did. I should have popped in to say I'm alive. One week I had just generally had it, not for any particular reason or anything specific and that week just stretched out into months. I actually didn't do anything on the internet except for emails and a garden forum for almost two months. My hubby thought I was losing it because suddenly I wasn't on the computer at all. LOL

30 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 6:50:38pm

re: #11 Charles

As a Christian, I do not accept that Muhammad received revelation from God, for many reasons (most of which would require a separate, and much longer, column), most saliently that he and his "revelation" deny (in Sura 4:157) the key doctrine of my, and 2.3 billion other Christians', faith: the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, to atone for the entire human race's sins.

I really, really, really, really wish that religious people could see how magnificently absurd that looks through the eyes of a non-believer / skeptic / agnostic / atheist. You know how goofy the story of Xenu seems to non-Scientologists? How ridiculous the story of the angel Moroni and the invisible golden plates is to non-Mormons? That's exactly how stupid this argument looks to me. It's like arguing over whether or not Bernie Johnson actually did or did not hitch a ride on the Blessed Back of Unice, Unicorn of Good Tidings, and then citing specific passages of William S. Burroughs' "Naked Lunch" to back up their claim.

31 im_gumby_damnit  Fri, Sep 10, 2010 7:57:57pm

That's wicked sick.

32 foobear2  Sat, Sep 11, 2010 2:47:09pm

This looks seriously cool! I just ordered the additional bits myself - can't wait to try out my newly-upgraded toy!


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