SmartMicroOptics' Diple lens platform turns your smartphone into a microscope
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SmartMicroOptics' Diple lens platform turns your smartphone into a microscope
Its 150x lens can allow for up to 1000x times magnification when combined with digital zoom
The little picture: Microscopes are cool. There is something fascinating about looking at objects that you cannot normally see with your naked eye. Of course, carrying a microscope around for whenever the whim might hit you is not practical. An optics startup is looking to change that with a compact device that turns any smartphone or tablet into a microscope.
Apple patented a lens mounting system for the iPhone back in 2014, but it never saw fruition. Regardless, plenty of companies have come up with attachments to add camera features to mobile phones, including Olloclip's multi-function XS Max Clip and Sony's QX10 zoom lens. One startup even designed a lens attachment to take 360-degree photos and 235-degree videos for virtual reality.
Now, a firm called SmartMicroOptics (SMO) has launched a Kickstarter campaign to transform your smartphone into a microscope. It has already more than doubled its goal of $27,688 by raking in over $61,000, with 26 days still left.
The project, dubbed Diple, is not your traditional lens attachment, as you might have guessed. Unlike the company's previous Blips 5x - 10x and 20x - 150x lens accessories, Diple is more a portable platform that doesn't really attach to the phone at all. You only need to align the device's objective lens to the Diple's microscope lens to see details at 35x - 1000x magnification (dependent on device's digital zoom capabilities and the lens package purchased).
This means you don't even need to remove your phone from its case. It also means that the microscope will work with