Mobile phone microscope
If you thing mobile phone ‘telescope’ are cool gadget, now another cool gadget. Mobile phone microscope, this device was researched at the University of California, Berkeley. This microscope can take high-resolution images of patient’s blood cells using a cell phone camera, and then transmit the photos to expert at medical center.
This useful device can help patients with blood disorders that live far from medical specialists get more accurately diagnosed and treated. As researchers hope “I wanted to make optical design relevant to today” say Daniel Fletcher. Daniel Fletcher is a professor of bioengineering at Berkeley. The researchers also hope to collaborate with a telemedicine program at the University of California, Davis that serves rural California. Leukemia patients in remote areas could use the microscope cell phone to transmit images for white blood cell counts.
This ‘telescope’ can capture and transmit picture such as this 23x magnification image. This device can help every research to spread image and easy to use. Not like traditional ‘microscope’ this device easy to carry, using a laptop and Bluetooth technology or may be internet technology, this device help researchers in around the world work together. Surely adding macro lenses to cameras is not sufficiently novel for patentability. A simple Google search brings this.
