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!
Buy It : The Zorb MM 480 retails for $39.95 and you can get it at Wal-Mart or any of these retailers:
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This contest is over, the winner is comment #221, Shelia!
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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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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!
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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 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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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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I would like to look at my daughters nail. She has some fungus I want to see and show her.
It would be an old coin we have that we can’t make out the date on
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i would love to see my sons trucks and tires up close!!!!! i think he would love this
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I want to see the netted veins of some leaves! I love doing that in Bio then
Hmm, I would like to see the leaves of my basil plant up close
My boys would probably look at ants before anything else.
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Oh, so many things, but I like nature so probably something like tree bark! I can only imagine what my kids will come up with!
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I would love to look at some Loose Champagne diamonds that I bought. They are little. My son would love to probably look at EVERYTHING he could with this. And I am positive my husband could search up some new DIRT to get rid of with this. Overall the whole family would love this gadget. Thank you
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My grandsons would have a ball with this!
They could view all the neat things in their yard, like a bug or a part of mom & dads prized flower from the garden!
I would find it great to look at any nastys you might need a better look at on your own body!!
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I would like to see my cuticles close up….is that odd?
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the boys would say bugs-leaves, flowers, water from a lake would be fun to look at
I guess we’d look at the veins in a leaf!
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My sons are all about bugs, so I imagine that they would be so excited to see them under the microscope.
We would like to look at a A fly or a drop of blood (mine of couse) up close.
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We would look at my daughter’s rocks and fossils!
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We’d like to take a look at those little bugs that keep attacking my rose bushes. Thanks!
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I know my sciencist son would love this! He’s always coming up with projects. I’d like to look at my skin up close…the details of skin are crazy looking! Thanks
I want to look at a fly under the scope.
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I’d like to let the kids look at their hair shafts!
This is actually really neat! I’d love to give this to my nephew for xmas, he is into collecting stamps (don’t ask me why…) and I’m sure he would have a ball with this microscope.
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I would look at bacon. Seriously. And an egg.
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i’d look at whatever (few) bills i have in my pocket
I want to see a ladybug close up, thanks!
I’d like to see coins and paper money up close!
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My sons are into bugs so it would be some kind of bug for sure!
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