Engineer Builds $10 DIY Cellphone Microscope

Cell phones are handy in an emergency. They make emergency calls, serve as a late night SMS, and now in developing areas where money is tight and malaria runs rampant, can serve as a microscope.

DIY designed by Aydogan Ozcan, assistant professor of electrical engineering and member of the California Nanosystems Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. He did it all with some software written by and about $ 10 at Radio-the-shelf parts, reports New York Times.

There is actually no lens to say, since the increase is fully processed holograms, software and electronics. This, Ozcan says, is what is the core device portability and accessibility. Even better, this means that the future system based on this project might be able to diagnose and research even better than traditional microscope in this area. He said Bahram Jalali, applied physicist and professor of electrical engineering at the University of California in an interview with New York Times, design, beauty is in the absence of mechanical scanning.

"Instead of holograms to capture all the cells in the digital image at the same time," said the Times. This allows you to "see as pathogens of a wide population of healthy cells."

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