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 ...

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 ...

Clip-on lenses and wireless scopes now let a smartphone camera resolve textures and structures that used to require a lab bench. Instead of peering into a bulky eyepiece, I can hold a leaf, a circuit ...

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 ...

Six years on from the first iMicro smartphone microscope, the team has unveiled its latest: the iMicro Q3p, a fingertip-sized, lightweight device that makes microscopy inexpensive, portable and ...