Cellscope: Portable Microscopy
Microscopes is a basic diagnostic tool which many hospitals in developing countries go without. Cellscope is a solution to which is accomplished through the exploitation of cell phones (noticing a trend?). The cellscope was developed by a team at Richard C. Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC-Berkley.
By attaching approximately $75 worth of parts traditional cellular cameras can be have 5-50x zoom. This allows the abillity to have a clinical quality microscope for little overhead. The group is in prelimary stages, but they have however been able to obtain clinical quality images through this method. Also once collected images can be transmitted using the cellular technology to remote locations where clinicans can further analyze the data.