Micro Phone Lens turn your smartphone into a 150x microscope

This $42 lens would turn your smartphone or tablet camera into a power microscope with a really huge range showing images in 150x zoom.

The great mechanical engineer Thomas Larson from Seattle has developed a Micro Phone Lens that attaches to your smartphone or tablet’s camera to show you 150x magnification microscope of the images .

The Micro Phone lens gets attached to your device camera very easily and can be pulled off  easily when you’re done with your images . Users just need to press on it to adjust the focus of the images and slides. All you need is a light source and a microscope slide to view the things around in detail. The recommended camera resolution for the lens is 5MP and according to the site, the final product will be able to resolve features as tiny as 1.5-1.6 microns.

This great lens project has raised money from known the crowd funding site - Kickstarter. Micro Phone Lens is quite inexpensive as it comes for $42 only (which will get you the lens plus the additional  accessories along with it. At this pint of time this lens microscope is a lot cheaper than dedicated microscopes with a comparable magnification which makes it ideal for home or school use in laboratories .

just see the awesome video demonstrating the use of this micro lens right below.

Source: Kickstarter