Majority of high-end smartphones have a pretty good camera and zoom. Yet, many small things which are to be captured need accessories. With the introduction of Nurugo Micro, the company enables their user to see microscopic details using their smartphones.
Nurugo Micro is basically a small accessory that transforms the smart phone's built-in camera into a powerful microscope that can magnify object 400x. It helps to take pictures of those objects that are not visible to the naked eye.
Nurugo Micro is a portable device that easily fits over a smartphone's camera lens. This accessory does not require any power from your smartphone device for serving as a lens over the smartphone's camera. Also, the attachment needs no cable connection. This attachment allows up to 400x magnification. It is small in size and it can remain attached to the smartphone. For the purpose of attachment, it uses small, simple clip.
Additionally, it includes a fixing ring which allows illuminating the subject, a light guide helps to keep the shadows far off and a focus guide so as to manually adjust the device focus. As the attachment microscope working is based on the phone's regular camera, the attachment can be used further to record videos when the photos are just not enough.
The attachment will be helpful to scientists, researchers as well as medical professionals and students. In developing countries, the actual usage of the microscope attachments in smartphones is helping in diagnosis of skin cancer. These images help the doctors working in remote areas to take images of the samples of skin which further can be examined by pathologists. This is useful in detecting skin cancer.
The current Nurugo Micro project is available on the Kick starter crowd funding website. It is sought to raise $50,000. With few days remaining for the campaign, it has raised more than $150,000. Nurugo Micro units are available for a $39 USD pledge for the early bird units. Shipping will start if all goes as per the plan in the May of this year.