Smartphones are great devices for taking awesome, clear, and detailed photos. Camera technology in phones has come a long way, almost removing the need for the traditional point and shoot camera units ...

We use smartphones to talk, chat, play, and, by getting directions, explore the world we walk or drive through. Very soon, thanks to an Italian startup, we will also be able to use smartphones to ...

The most common type of camera out there today is the smartphone camera. It's the camera that we all have in our pockets and when a picture opportunity arises, the smartphone camera is right there to ...

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There are several options out there for doing solid macro photography with the iPhone the Blips lenses are a bit different. Currently in Kickstarter mode, Blips are tiny, stick-on lenses that give ...

Not to romanticize all the yesteryears and how great things used to be, but the proliferation of mobile technology that children are exposed to means summertime fun today is vastly different than how ...

It is a twist on cell phone use that excites assistant professor Wei-Chuan Shih and doctoral candidate Yulung Sung. They call it DotLens, a discovery made by mistake. Last year, Sung dropped polymer ...

Researchers have created the world’s smallest silicon LED and holographic microscope that opens up a wide range of potential applications, including turning your smartphone camera into a portable, ...

Researchers have recently developed a device that can turn any smartphone into a DNA-scanning fluorescent microscope. If you thought scanning one of those strange, square QR codes with your phone was ...

Smartphone photographers looking for an easy way to capture micro and macro photography may be interested in a new set of smartphone lenses called Blips, that have been created by SMO or ...

Sometimes the best products are the simplest, executed really, really well. Since at least the early 1600s microscopes have helped civilization understand nature; it only makes sense that your modern ...

Attention nerds: If you like gadgets for your smartphone and you love optical microscopes, today is the day you kiss me full on the mouth. Using twice the magnification power of a jeweler’s loupe, and ...