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Christmas Shopping For Your Nephew
colenski writes "My vote for the coolest toy of the decade so far has to lie with the EyeClops Bionic Eye. As one reviewer noted, simply, "Microscopes never worked this well or looked this good when I was a kid." An ingeniously simple and brilliantly designed product, the EyeClops plugs into your TV and magnifies anything you put it on 200 times. Brain dead simple to use, EyeClops is a cheap $40 US / $60 Cdn gift that your nephew or nerdy niece would probably freak over. Here's some cool and disturbing pictures I got after about 20 minutes playing with it. Check out the money shot." I always struggled to focus through a microscope as a kid, and this looks like a great inexpensive present for a little kid since every cool chemistry kit is totally nerfed now. Any other fun ideas?
Pity kids can no longer get chemistry sets. How many genius chemists are we going to lose due to that again? Still, at least they can see the disease they might have cured. I suppose that is something.
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The problem you had, and that my own son had last Christmas, is that cheap microscopes don't have "widefield" eyepieces.
If you spend a little more (typically $100-$150 on Ebay) you can get a good-quality student-grade microscope with a widefield eyepiece. And nowadays, many come with 640x480 webcams, or at least webcam attachment points.
The webcams are USB, so it's trivial to capture images and print them out for science projects. That's vastly more useful than a TV-out.
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Another example of how Canadian customers get screwed: by charging 33% more for the same product (Our looney is at par with the greenback these days, or worth even more!)
Guess I won't be seeing that anytime soon. Too bad so many home pages are a flash only portal
These pictures don't look any better than the images I took with my old Intel digital scope, which has been gathering dust for about 5 years now.
Probably same or similar guts.
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Yeah and on top of that, the coolest toy you could give a kid for Christmas is a simple computer and teach them to do a Linux build. Imagine the shock on the faces of friends and teachers when your kid tells them what he/she did over Christmas break.
Microscopes, eh.
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The ultimate gift of this season: OLPC.
Not only are you giving a great educational device, but you're also helping some child in the developing world. Perhaps a good time to introduce your nephew to philanthropy, too.
Nothing really beats giving your nephew a hooker for Christmas.
Odd that its $60 CDN when the currency is equal now.
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Nah, if you want to shock teachers you need to give him plutonium, preferably weapons grade. That'll shock them. So will a stun gun.
but it looks the same as my web cam when I screw the lens out really far.
I've done this and the close up pics I get are as high magnification and in focus as the ones taken with this microscope.
I know this as many of the pictures linked to in the article are of the same things I looked at, like coins, hair on your arm etc.
I kinda expected more if the optics were designed specifically for a microscope.
I guess companies still like to think that the US dollar is worth twice as much.
Or maybe they've seen too many Canadians crowing on the intarweb about the loonie being on par with the dollar and say to themselves, "Screw those guys, if they want it they can pay more."
It's not that kind of money shot. When I read that, it made me think of what I would have been doing if I got one of these when I was a kid. I would have looked at my butt on TV.
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I think it is a little ignorant blaming this on the bush administration. The castration of the chemestry set has been going on a lot longer then since he has been in office and the "in 20 years" leads us to believe the problem will last long after he is gone.
Give credit where credit is due. But don't blame everything on Clinton or Bush just because it is fun to show your ignorant hate. We need a little more of the being able to think for yourself then kneejerk blame being pushed around. That is how we got the chemestry sets we have today. Be part of the solution not the problem.
EyeClops is a cheap $40 US / $60 Cdn gift that your nephew or nerdy niece would probably freak over
I couldn't help but notice that the submitter is working under the assumption that all Slashdot readers are unable to get girls*, let alone have children of their own.
* The idea that Slashdot readers might be feminine themselves is practically a violation of dogma.
I am boycotting stores like Toys-R-Us because they advertise openly that they cheat their customers. They have not adjusted their Canadian and US prices to reflect the current dollar values. How is it that a toy that sells for $40 US is also sold for $60 Canadian, when the Canadian dollar is currently worth $1.02 US? Corporate sociopathic greed, and this from a toystore!
Of course I was a nerdy geek and spent the time to learn how to use real microscopes. I examined a lot of things (including semen) and learned a lot of things (except, of course, the social skills needed to get the semen inside, or anywhere near, a female).
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when he's over a submachine gun? I agree.
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is actually around 35 cdn
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I used the EyeClops Bionic Eye to get a close-up of the Linux kernel. It was amazing. I could clearly see the 235 Microsoft patents embedded in it.