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July 8, 2009
Pocket Microscope
Brian Fleming's rave review of this device in the latest edition of Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools, edited by Elon Schoenholz, follows.
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Carson MicroBrite Pocket Microscope
We discovered this microscope
while traveling in Paris, where it was recommended by a staffer at
Nature & Decouvertes, who told us it was incredible for the price — about $10 at the time.
Was he ever right.
It comes with a base and a slide with some cotton cloth as a sample,
but in practice we never use the base or slide. We just place the
microscope on anything we want to look at, and click the LED light on
for a terrific view. There is a 20x-40x zoom, as well as adjustable
focus. It’s good enough that we end up fighting our kids to play with
it. With it we’ve studied leaves, flowers, color printing (kids are
surprised by the dot patterns), currency, rugs, even our own
fingerprints.
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I'm the operator
of my pocket microscope
Nope, just does not have the same ring to it..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGKhV6WsNrA&feature=related
Posted by: Rocketboy | Jul 10, 2009 12:18:35 AM
EVEN YOUR OWN FINGERPRINTS!>!> OH- MY- GOD!
-.-
Posted by: wheedle | Jul 9, 2009 10:00:28 AM
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