CellScope - Diagnosing malaria and creating animations with Nokia

The CellScope is very cool use of techonoly to help Doctors diagnose disease in remote areas using a cell phone camera and a portable microscope.

University of California, Berkley, Professor Daniel Fletcher and his team had an idea that now helps to save lives. They took a microscope, a Nokia N95, and put them together. They call it the CellScope. A super-portable microscope imaging device, perfect for diagnosing diseases in remote areas in developing world countries. Images of cell samples can be captured then sent by MMS anywhere in the world for instant analysis. Brilliant.

Also to showcase their Cellescop, the 'World's Smallest Stopmotion Animation Character' film shot using a Nokia N8 and CellScope technology:

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