DIPLE, a tool that turns a smartphone camera into a microscope, can detect bacteria

DIPLE is a very interesting startup project of the SmartMicroOptics team, promising to turn your smartphone into a microscope that can detect bacteria clearly. With a zoom of up to 1,000 times, these phone microscopes can allow you to view microorganisms, bacteria or even blood cells.

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DIPLE is about the size of a smartphone case but has all the basics of a microscope including a backlight and a good zoom lens. DIPLE has 3 lenses with different zoom sizes including 35x, 75x and 150x.

The SmartMicroOptics team says that DIPLE can zoom an object up to 1,000 times before the picture becomes grainy.

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DIPLE is being sold on Kickstarter for about 40USD (approximately 920,000 VND) for a single 35x lens version, if you want to own all 3 types of lenses, you will have to spend 120USD (about 2.8 million VND) .

In 2016, the SmartMicroOptics team also launched a similar mobile microscope project called BLIPS, which includes a handy set of removable lenses for smartphones. However, BLIPS for images are not as sharp as DIPLE.

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