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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Hmm, I guess my fingernail and a piece of the carpet!
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My dog’s paw pads!
I want to look at a feather up close.
My kids love bugs, so we would look at the first bug we could find.
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The first thing I’d look at might be a leaf from the yard.
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Ewww, I don’t think I can eat popcorn again! I would love to take a close-up look at my dog’s nose…
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as a homeschool mom this would be awesome!!! wow–chicken feathers we can examine!
I want to show my son his fingerprints up close. I think he would like that.
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I want to look at my fingerprint!
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I would look at a piece of bread.
I would like to see mold. Thanks!
It’ll probably be our fingerprints, but when no one’s around, I’m checking out my pores!
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My nephew has discovered the wonders of bugs, so this would be awesome to get him started on a lifetime of discovery up close. Might even lead to an interest in making a career of science!
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I would want to see a toenail clipping under the microscope…gross, I know
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The first thing I would love to see up close is a rock.
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You know, I think I’d like to look at leaves up close….that would be cool. My kiddo would probably want to look at an insect first, though!
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