Want To Popularize Science? Here's the gadget for you!

A pocket-size lensless microscope that uses on-chip optofluidic microscopy (OFM).

The sample is dragged in front of the detector and an image is extrapolated. Now imagine if every cell phone had one of these?

Ref:
Xiquan Cui, Lap Man Lee, Xin Heng, Weiwei Zhong, Paul W. Sternberg, Demetri Psaltis, and Changhuei Yang
Lensless high-resolution on-chip optofluidic microscopes for Caenorhabditis elegans and cell imaging
PNAS (08) 105:10670-10675

Update: someone just informed me of this interview of Changhuei Yang on NPR, click here to listen.