Your phone might have a macro mode (which can produce some great shots), letting you take detailed and sometimes stunning, close-up pictures of everyday items, allowing you to examine fine detail as ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Currently on sale for $28.48, this microscope packs a couple of features that make it impressively adaptable, including up to 1000x ...

You can transform your smart phone camera into a powerful microscope, enabling you to explore the hidden wonders of the world at any time. With the PhoneMicro5 portable phone microscope is designed to ...

If the smartphone microscope is produced in large quantities, it could cost less than $500 per device, the researchers estimate, which is far less than the $10,000 for a typical microscope with ...

An engineer at UCLA has created a substitute for microscopes by using about $10 of off-the-shelf hardware and a mobile phone. Aydogan Ozcan has already formed a start-up, Microskia, around the new ...