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"    Photo by Stuart Hay  Sometimes it seems like there is not all that much scientists and cellphone companies can do to make smartphones that much smarter between apps and hardware features that sometimes seems superfluous but Australian scientists may have truly developed something that makes your smartphone smarter. Scientists at the Australian National University Research School of Engineering have developed a liquid drop lenses that can be fitted to a small microscope and placed over the pre-existing lenses of a smartphone camera allowing a zoom that goes all the way to 160x. Besides adding unfounded depth to one&amp;#039;s selfies, the lenses, which costs less than a cent to make, turns your smartphone into a remote microscope solving a big problem in collecting information. Previously, the only way people could remotely see live objects zoomed in was through magnifying glasses/binoculars or camera zooms, not only does the droplet lenses provide a new means to observe in the field, the fact that you can take a photo of it just like you&amp;#039;d take a photo of anything else with your camera app. No idea how you, the average selfie taker, will use this Aussie innovation. Scientists, however, already have some ideas.      Originally posted at esquire.com. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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