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In the last few years there has been an influx of fun/pointless/interesting/small/useful USB powered devices, and you will be hard pushed to find something you can’t power using USB.  However, amid the rubbish that you can find (like the USB powered fragrance oil burner) there is occasionally one that is genuinely interesting, and this is one of them.

For those of you who think science is cool and wish you had a microscope or who just like looking at small stuff, the USB Microscope is for you. Although perhaps designed for the younger generations, people of any age can have fun looking at anything under a microscope, and in pretty good quality too.  It has a resolution of up to 1600x1200 which is not bad and looking at a screen definitely beats looking into a tiny hole.  Naturally, there is a pretty good zoom.

The zoom is in fact 200x, which gives you incredibly detailed images of the microscopic world.  This microscope allows for stills and also videos to be taken.  Unfortunately, the resolution for the latter will in all likelihood be capped at 640x480.  All in al,l this is a pretty neat gadget that any aspiring scientist should have, although there is one major drawback…

When you start getting bored of looking at plants and dollar notes, you will find yourself moving onto your own body, and no matter how clean your hands are they always look repulsive after being magnified 200x.  And kids?  Let them loose on this and you may find your free 2GB online storage will be filled of horrible pictures of cuts and scars—not nice!  But I have to say this is definitely worth the $90 price tag.

Source [EverythingUSB]