Stanford Bioengineer Develops a 50-cent Paper Microscope

An anonymous reader writes "Scope: A Stanford bioengineer has developed an ultra-low-cost print-and-fold microscope and is now showing others how to make one themselves. The 50-cent lightweight, paper 'Foldscope' — which 'can be assembled in minutes, [and] includes no mechanical moving parts' — was designed to aid disease diagnosis in developing regions." The paper describing the design is on arXiv, and a video demoing the microscope is attached below.

Summary of Thread

[The Cat]

1. It will never work.
2. Big fuckin deal. Made one myself over breakfast last week.
3. Biology is a worthless major.
4. At least 68 replies starting with the word "Actually"
5. This is proof there's no God.
6. Shut up teabagger
7. Fuck beta
8. I'm competing to be the world's biggest talking penis
9. Four PhDs? No wonder you're a dumbfuck
10. Someone dropped a bulldozer on your car? The problem is you.

Re:Summary of Thread

[bob_super]

11. Useless because I can't use it to do heart surgery or Si lithography
12. Will be destroyed by a patent from Big Optics
13. How many bitcoins?

Re:Thank you come again

[Anonymous Coward]

No, indians are from India, the country on the Asian continent, making them indians. Your lack of geographical knowledge pegs you as USian.

FTFY.

Re:Summary of Thread

[drkim]

17. Oblig. XKCD:
http://xkcd.com/860/ [xkcd.com]