Lifelens: Graduate Student Team Develop Windows Phone Microscope to Diagnose Malaria in the Field
Last summer, I wrote about a UCLA Professor of Electrical Engineering whose team developed a microscope that when attached to a cellphone provided a cheap field use diagnostic tool. How cheap? How about $10 in parts.
Cellphone Microscope Built Out of $10 in Parts Wins Awards for UCLA EE Prof. & Team
The photos here are taken from a video of UCLA Professor Aydogan Ozcan explaining the concept. My guess is that Professor Ozcan’s work inspired graduate students from Anderson School of Management, Harvard School of Business, University of California Davis and University of Central Florida Orlando to build a malaria diagnosis system using a Windows Phone 7 based Samsung Focus smartphone with a microscope camera lens.
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