Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical ...

The Micro Phone Lens can turn any smartphone or tablet computer into a hand-held microscope. The soft, pliable lens sticks to a device's camera without any adhesive or glue and makes it possible to ...

Zooming in: image of mouse embryo. (Courtesy: Gail McConnell/University of Strathclyde) A new microscope lens that offers the unique combination of a large field of view with high resolution has been ...

Weaning away from the present microscopes, we have the newest of inventions and it is the Portable Lens-Free Holographic Microscope. This new lens-free microscopy technique uses cheap, small and a ...