<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2353f636-0559-494e-ac8f-65c41f40eaea/88481D38-FDEF-4DFD-AFE1-BDAC29C7F460/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14410-ipodsize-microscope-could-become-lifesaving-gadget.html" href="http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14410-ipodsize-microscope-could-become-lifesaving-gadget.html" style="font-size: 11px;">technology.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14410-ipodsize-microscope-could-become-lifesaving-gadget.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/technology.newscientist.com/img/6B3A5F34-A8CE-4AC2-A60F-9D188B2D07EF" alt="Caption: Floating tiny samples across a digital camera sensor provides a cheap way to do microscopy, that will fit into a pocket-size gadget (Image: Changhuei Yang)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14410-ipodsize-microscope-could-become-lifesaving-gadget.html"><P>Optical microscopes used to be bulky instruments. The lenses and lights normally needed to illuminate, magnify and focus an image take up a lot of space, and are fragile and expensive to boot.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14410-ipodsize-microscope-could-become-lifesaving-gadget.html"><P>Not any more. Researchers have squeezed a powerful microscope onto a single image-sensing chip and removed the need for lenses.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14410-ipodsize-microscope-could-become-lifesaving-gadget.html"><P>The cheap, portable device could be just what medics in the developing world need to diagnose diseases such as malaria, its inventors suggest.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14410-ipodsize-microscope-could-become-lifesaving-gadget.html">"Because the image processing that's needed is trivial in computing terms, we could build the microscope into an iPod-sized device with an LCD display, </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14410-ipodsize-microscope-could-become-lifesaving-gadget.html"><P>"The $10 chip would be a disposable, like an inkjet cartridge, and the whole thing would fit into a clinicians' back pocket," he says, adding that a disposable sensor would reduce the risk of contamination between samples.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/88481D38-FDEF-4DFD-AFE1-BDAC29C7F460/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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