Daedalus Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 (edited) After reading a post on Facebook from IFLS about the new paper microscope, FoldScope, I must say that I'm impressed! We are a research team at PrakashLab at Stanford University, focused on democratizing science by developing scientific tools that can scale up to match problems in global health and science education. Here we describe Foldscope, a new approach for mass manufacturing of optical microscopes that are printed-and-folded from a single flat sheet of paper, akin to Origami....Foldscope is an origami-based print-and-fold optical microscope that can be assembled from a flat sheet of paper. Although it costs less than a dollar in parts, it can provide over 2,000X magnification with sub-micron resolution (800nm), weighs less than two nickels (8.8 g), is small enough to fit in a pocket (70 × 20 × 2 mm3), requires no external power, and can survive being dropped from a 3-story building or stepped on by a person. Its minimalistic, scalable design is inherently application-specific instead of general-purpose gearing towards applications in global health, field based citizen science and K12-science education. I want one!!! Edited March 11, 2014 by Daedalus 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainPanic Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 For those among us who rather watch pictures than read text, here's a TED talk about it: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daedalus Posted March 11, 2014 Author Share Posted March 11, 2014 That's awesome CaptainPanic. Thanks for posting the Ted talk video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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