PRIME ENTERTAINMENT QX-5 Microscope

PRIME ENTERTAINMENT QX-5 Microscope | Also for serious research

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highly recommended

The QX-5 Microscope is the perfect educational tool for children who want to learn about their world! Attach this electronic microscope to your PC and let children explore the tiny, hidden parts of their world.

Kids will love it

Nice resolution picture. Good magnification and brightness. Can take picture or video clip.

Also for serious research

Believe it or not, this so-called 'toy microscope' can actually be used in a real research too. This gadget has been cited and used in the following publications:
- "Profiting from nature: macroporous copper with superior mechanical
properties"
- "An inexpensive microslab gel DNA electrophoresis system with real-time
fluorescence detection"
- "GASEOUS MICROEMBOLI SIZING IN EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCUITS USING ULTRASOUND BACKSCATTER"
- "Personal Cytometers: Slow Flow or No Flow?"
- "On-line low-volume transesterification-based assay for immobilized lipases"

When qualified using a features-vs-price ratio, this gadget would get a high ranking. Moreover, this 'cheap' toy is a perfect starting point to induce creativities among new science and engineering students, particularly in regions with limited resources.

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Great hardware, not-so-good software

I love this microscope! My kids and I are having lots of fun with it. The best part is being able to take photos and videos of the stuff you look at. My son has used the photos for science homework assignments. My only complaint (and the only reason I gave this product 4 stars rather, than 5) is that the software is buggy. The software interface is fine and child-friendly, however it crashed one of my computers (blue screen). The microscope would work just fine, then out of nowhere, a blue screen of death and I'd have to reboot the whole system. So, I connected it to another computer and the software crashed when trying to save a movie to the hard drive. However, on the second machine I can just restart the program and it does save the movie and works fine otherwise, just a nuisance to have to restart the program every time I save a movie. Both of my machines are high-end computers, well-maintained running Windows XP. I emailed tech support via[...] regarding these software issues about a month ago and never got a reply. I did not try phone support. But not impressed with email support. I don't understand why a tech company would not embrace email support over phone support as I do, but anyway... aside from the software issues, I love this product and there is a good chance the software would work fine on a differently configured PC. Still, I'm hoping that Digital Blue updates the software soon.

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