You may like I tried a fingertip lens that claimed to gave my iPhone a 1200x zoom – but it won’t replace my microscope any time soon; I’m a photographer, and this Leica-style smartphone is ...

THE compound polarizer is a device for producing beams of polarized light of variable colours in the field of a microscope ocular. The polarizer proper consists of a disk of ‘Polaroid’, a disk ...

This tiny lens turns your smartphone into a polarizing microscope – and it works with both iPhones and Android phones too. Story by Christian Rowlands • 3mo.