The microscope costs less than one-tenth of its professional-
grade counterparts. Created by Digital Blue, the microscope
comes with a powerful lens and can be used to send images over
the internet. It connects to a computer running Windows using a
USB port. According to the Wall Street Journal: Andrew Westphal,
an astrophysicist at the University of California at Berkeley,
says he was recently able to examine some microscopic dust from
outer space with the help of the RX5′s plastic lens. That is
because a conventional microscope’s glass lens would have
suffered from the hydrofluoric acid used to separate the
particles from other elements. “Had it not been for the toy, we
would have been at a loss,” he says. Available from: Amazon
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