USB Digital Microscope

When I was a schoolboy, my favorite subject was biology. Just because I had an opportunity to use microscope and explore everything in a big magnification. I even got microscope from my parents as a present for some holiday, and spent weekends looking through it on beetles, money, small pieces of fruits etc. Don’t have any idea where is it now, but looks like I’ve found a good replacement for it.

This is a digital microscope presented by ThinkGeek that has USB interface.This device presents you possibility to zoom in on any object (up to 200x zoom), view them on your PC, create snapshots or even time-lapse movies with a help of special included software. A good feature that main unit is detachable from the stand, so you can place wherever you need and get as close to object as you may need.

Here is a good example of working with this microscope:

I’m pretty sure that this stuff is worth its price - $199.99, just look at specifications:

• Capture high quality images, video and time-lapsed video
• Resolution: 640 x 480 pixels for image capture
• Magnification: 20x, 50x, 200x
• Built-in LEDs for illumination (8 LEDs)
• LED on/off controlled by software
• Interface: USB 2.0
• Frame rate: up to 30fps
• Dimension: 10cm (h) x 3.2cm (dia)
• Weight: 0.2 lb (90g)
• Includes: Microscope, Microscope stand, DinoCapture Software (Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP, Vista, Mac OS9, OSX)
• One year warranty