This little egg shaped piece of awesomeness from Carson Optical is something you may want to get two of because it was such a hit with my two kids that they were fighting over it. Technically I used it first and was COMPLETELY blown away by what it can do! Its a microscope that hooks up to your computer via USB ! And if that’s not cool enough you can take PHOTOS of what you find and VIDEO too! And to change the focus you just twist the body until you get the desired focus. Neat!
I took some photos to show you the awesomeness. The first is a dead Hornet. We had quite the battle against these menaces this past summer!
And then random stuff-
A piece of the outer shell on popcorn (the piece that gets in your teeth):
A stuffed animal’s eye:
My eyelashes! :
There is a button right on the tip of it that you press and voila, it take a shot for you. Remember to save it though because if you don’t and you take another picture it will erase the first one. For video, you just click start capture and you can record! No sound of course but its cool. I recorded a small piece of ice melting on my laptop (turned off and closed of course) and it was neat. You could see the bubbles popping!
You can see so many cool things with this, even gross things like scars and dirty fingernails. And the quality is very good too because of the lights. We spent a good 2 hours looking all over the house for cool things to look at microscopically. I think the grossest was a pimple and the neatest was bee so far. I would definitely put this on the boy or girl list for Christmas and for sure put it on the homeschoolers list for science!
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My sons are so interested in coins and dollars and we would use this for having the kids look closer at coins and dollars. My sons would love this. Thanks so much.
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My sons love to look at things under the microscope, but ours is so old it doesn’t quite focus anymore. They love to examine everything in our house with it. Most of all pieces of themselves. Hair, fingernails, etc.
I had a microscope when I was a kid. I would love to show my grandkids how much fun they are.
I want to do activities with my three grandsons. So the first thing I want to look at will be a strand from each of their heads. I want them to compare them.
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we have a buttload of spiders of all kinds around here and my son loves to track um down and see if they are differant
this would aid in his quest
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charlotte would like to see a centipede close up!
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My sons hair. Then a potato chip up close.
For some reason I want to look at a $1 bill close up.
I want to see skin close up but my kids are saying bugs up close..
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My daughter would want to have a close up look at bugs!
our dogs’ fur.
I would take a look at some old coins that my father collected and later gave to me.
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I think the first thing we would look at would be pollen. There are so many different shapes and designs.
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I think it would be fun to look at a dollar bill
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I have a sample of quartz with gold-colored flecks. If the flecks have striations, I’ve got fool’s gold (pyrite). If not, I may have a gold mine! Trouble is, my old eyes can’t tell the difference without some help. Hence my interest.
I had eye surgery, so this is icing on the cake, to see things so up close and in person!
First thing I’d like to see using this “cool tool” is a postage stamp! Wow!
i love looking at skin cells… my daughter would too i think!
I would want to see a leaf up close.
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i know my grandsons would want to see bugs upclose!!!
It’s a little gross, but my son has a fingernail that’s falling off and it would be really cool to look at that!
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I think it would be cool to see a lady bug!
With Long Island being so toxic, I would like to take a look at our well water and see what’s in that.
Some food items, a lot of things around the house, it would be fun to have.
I would want to look at my aloe plant up close
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