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What do you mean you're less than three science? ;D
No, <3 is the symbol for "mooning"... Luc likes to moon science
<3 is the sign for heart or love. Therefore, Luc is saying he loves science.
If you think that "<3 Science" is the symbol for "I love science" ... then I'm not convinced you REALLY love science. I'm more inclined to believe you just love social media. ;)
They know...
Bently winked ;D
@Luc: Actually, this is (clever) engineering (with which you can do science), done by a clever team of bioengineers--GOOD JOB!
Fair enough. I look at engineering and science as hand-in-glove: they are so interdependent as one gives the others tools to advance which gives the others tools to advance, etc.
It's just so much cooler to say "mad scientist" even though really all villains are mad engineers ;)
Misunderstood geniuses.
@Luc: Engineering asks "HOW" (can I accomplish this goal?); science asks "WHY" (does this or that happen; what are the underlying reasons?). Both are part of the process of acquiring knowledge, but at different places along the spectrum.
When they ran this story 6 month ago
http://www.npr.org/2014/04/...
It was stated to cost only 50 cents, they have more then doubled the cost.
According to the paper[1] that introduced the foldscope, the material cost is 58c for the low-power scope and 98c when equipped with the high-power lens.
[1]http://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.1... (recommended reading!)
So the MSRP will be USD $29.99 for the low power and USD $39.99 for the high power
they just gave away for free 10,000 of these to users in 130 countries
They raised the price by 50 cents!
I died laughing
They forgot about marketing fees.
Next time shouldnt they be puttin up an article on why hike in cost of advertising is unavoidable?
This is a job for Planet Money!
This is so totally awesome. If every school child had one of these, just imagine how excited about science they would be !
This is freakin’ cool ! In the fifties, I bought a metal microscope from Allied-Radio Shack for ten bucks that magnified 600 power, so I could look at my blood and leaf stomata, stuff like that.
I wanna get one of these!
Even a $15,000 microscope can't manage useful magnification of 2000x. The ball lens that this device uses does allow for such magnifications, although with significant distortion anywhere away from the center of the image. But Leeuwenhoek managed quite nicely using this technology. As an avid amateur microscopist I look forward to playing with some of these configurations.
It should be possible to correct for any distortions by calibrating the scope electronically, and then running the image through a computer program. Calibrate by viewing a tiny grid pattern.
The article says, "Then he and his team run the paper through a special printer that
actually prints a lens on the paper. "You should think of it as a drop
of glue, a tiny drop of glue," he says, "except it is an optical-quality
glue.""
That 2nd sentence is ambiguous: you can interpret it as a high-quality ball lens, or as a lens with non-spherical (corrected) surfaces printed by a 3-D printer--in the latter case, you could have a lot less distortion!
There are two different microscopes, the printed lens at 140x magnification. And ball lens of created sapphire for 2080x magnification
I'm not sure that would help the poor fanatics. But it's a start!
Cost less than $1.00 to MAKE.
Now on sale for $29.99 at your local Walmart Super Store.
You wouldn't believe the markup retailers get, on a lot of the stuff that comes from China.
Ah don't worry, I'm sure Amazon will have it for around $1
($6 +s/h for non-Prime customers)
And here's the coolest part: You put the microscope together yourself, by folding it.
They're $1 and very portable. That's what is cool.
$1 for the Foldscope; $99 for the iScope
Science, and more importantly education, need to be made more accessible in the world.
AWESOME!! hope this invention saves many lives!
Some of those pieces are very clearly Space Invaders. Conspiracy.
That's great. Bravo!
Absolutely wonderful!
Better buy a few for when you screw up the folding. Otherwise you may get a microscope shaped like a paper crane...
Stanford university! I bought one of these from the back of a comic book in the 70's ! I will say however they're very price competitive at 1$.
Kids will love it!
O_O I want one
Bravo!
I want to know what kind of printer can print "optical quality glue"
Very cool idea and, potentially, of great benefit, but I also have some questions. Typically, any magnification of 1000X or greater requires oil to have proper resolution. The caption says this scope does 2000X. How is the resolution? What about focus?
Please see here for all the possible details; specially the supplementary section..
http://www.plosone.org/arti...
cheers
Manu
These guys are genius, thinking BIG picture while keeping it simple. Human ingenuity is amazing...
And just a couple months ago I spent $200 on my own microscope... dangit!
You can also rig up a microscope using a smartphone, and the lens from a laser pointer.
I <3 science