{"id":28457,"date":"2021-06-29T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=28457"},"modified":"2021-06-28T13:28:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T20:28:18","slug":"pocket-microscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/pocket-microscope\/","title":{"rendered":"Pocket Microscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started using these <a href=\"http:\/\/geni.us\/kBCf51r\">pocket microscopes<\/a> when I found people using them at a gem and mineral show. I thought at first these were kids&#8217; toys because they were pretty cheap. I bought one so I could inspect stones and minerals closer during the show but found that they were fun to play with. I got home and my mother, who loves flashlights and things, wanted to get a bunch so she could hand them out to her friends as a novelty item.<\/p>\n<p>I actually bought a few dozen of these for about $2 each on eBay. They are really all the same design and made in bulk from China. These are simply jewelers&#8217; loupes with an LED light powered with 3 button batteries. Combined with your phone&#8217;s camera, you can turn this 60x loupe with the 10x magnification on an iPhone into a 600x microscope, and take pictures and videos of the items.\u00a0 I have two kids and we use them for various science functions. We really got interested in inspecting US currency to see all the anti-counterfeiting marks on dollar bills.<\/p>\n<p>These would make cool stocking stuffers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dirt cheap microscope with UV light and LED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[50,3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38642,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28457\/revisions\/38642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}