At this year's CES, adrift between meetings, I stumbled into a few digital microscope booths and spent a little time at the other end of the image-capture spectrum; in cameraville, we tend to ...

Unlike a traditional microscope - which involves lots of fiddling around with slides and mirrors, and taking turns to squint through a single eyepiece - the Dino-Lite plugs into your computer via a ...

A quick check of the usual Chinese websites will yield USB microscopes for a very low price. However, many of these are little more than webcams with some cheap optics. Not that they can’t be useful, ...