microscopes
Science

Delicious Alcoholic Cocktails Under The Microscope

See that? That’s a margarita magnified 1000 time under a high-tech microscope. And a company called Bevshots has produced a whole series of similar shots of booze at the molecular level. Can you spot your spirit of choice?

June 9, 2010

Microscope Connects To iPads Wirelessly For Extreme Close-Up Views

Designed for the beauty and education industries, this microscope peripheral can connect to iPads wirelessly, displaying video and images of skin (or whatever else you shove under the microscope) zoomed up by 50 times.

May 30, 2010

Microscope Shots Confirm Next iPhone’s 960×640 Resolution

Czech site superiphone.cz reportedly got their hands on an iPhone 4G and did what any self-respecting iPhone fanatics would: put it under a microscope. Up close and personal with those pixels, they confirmed the rumoured 960×640, IPS dipslay.

March 10, 2010
Science

What Would You Stick Under A Scanning Electron Microscope?

Here’s some tasty-looking hard candy. And here’s that same tasty-looking hard candy scanned by an SEM. Tuns out that there’s a company offering to stick almost anything under an electron microscope and we can’t help but wonder: What to pick?

March 7, 2010
Science

First Cosmic Dust May Have Been Discovered By Crowdsource Hero

In 2006, a NASA spacecraft returned to Earth with samples that scientists hoped might contain cosmic dust, a byproduct of star formation. They let the public look for the elusive particles online. A squinting citizen might have just found one.

March 3, 2010

What Is This?

So what on earth is this? Some dried-up riverbed somewhere? A black and white shot from the Mars Rover? The real answer might leave you spinning.

February 18, 2010
Gadgets

Razors Under A Microscope

Maybe some tools aren’t old-fashioned. Maybe they’re just perfect. The inevitable tapering toward only the necessary, the honing away of all distraction. The machine at its most simple. After that, what? Easy: mass production.

January 26, 2010
Software

iPhone App iMicroscope Lets You Be Your Own Scientist

So you always wanted to be a scientist… except you aren’t. Never fear! The iMicroscope iPhone app is here. When used with a microscope (surely you’ve got one of those kicking around?) you can take ultra-precise scientific photos.

November 9, 2009
Mobile

Engineer Builds $US10 DIY Mobile Phone Microscope

Mobile phones are handy in a pinch. They make emergency calls, serve as a late-night texting platform, and now in developing areas where money is tight and malaria runs rampant, they can serve as a microscope.

October 9, 2009
Cameras

Microscope dSLR Lens Captures Both The Beautiful And The Ugly

I thought this photo was of pollen. It’s not. Really, those are the protrusions on a starfish at 66x magnification, captured on a dSLR.

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