We have already heard of telescope add ons for mobile phones for looking at very big things that are far away, but now a small group of researchers from the the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a mobile add on for looking at very small things close up - we believe the technical term is a ‘microscope’.
The device can take high-resolution images of patients’ blood cells which can then be sent from the phone. Apparently the mobile microscope could have far reaching diagnostic implications where doctors in remote areas could take pictures of blood from patients suffering from blood disorders before sending them on to specialist centers for analysis.
The compact device will come in 5 and 60 times magnification variants and both are said to be reasonably cheap to produce. There are already plans to test the device in Uganda and Kampala over the summer and the research group have high hopes of finding a manufacturer for the device soon.
(Via Just Another Mobile Phone Blog)
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