Yesterday we demonstrated the ioLight field microscope at The University of Oxford’s Earth Sciences department. Owen Green (also fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, @RoyalMicroSoc ) had some fantastic rock samples to test the ioLight pocket microscope with, including this rather exciting one. We took the above image with the ioLight pocket microscope. The image is 1mm […]
ioLight launched a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube yesterday for their high resolution handheld USB digital microscope, and already the total has reached 12% (£32,210) of the total (£250k). A really big thank you to all those who have invested. If you would like to buy your own share of ioLight, please invest! Investments carry […]
Parasite infections are common in cattle, sheep, horses and chickens and other animals and cause both suffering to the animal and loss of revenue for farmers. In the past farmers have often treated parasites with routine use of antimicrobial drugs (antibiotics). However extensive use of antimicrobials is causing antimicrobial resistance to build in parasites, potentially […]
Malaria remains a major problem across large areas of the world. Yen Chin, Viola Introini and Prof Pietro Cicuta working on Biological and Soft Systems at the Cavendish Lab, Cambridge University are studying the mechanical properties of red blood cells by using optical tweezers to manipulate cells. One of the uses of this work is […]
Great video, tiny microscope Every company needs a video! On a hot summer’s day in 2016 ioLight’s Andrew Monk went pond dipping in Whitchurch’s beautiful Millenium Meadow with Mark Harman of Red Book Productions. The result was ioLight’s Product Demonstration video, which shows Andrew using the ioLight pocket microscope in the field. A couple of months later, and […]
The Eden Project uses the ioLight microscope to investigate plant disease ioLight is delighted to announce that the Eden Project is now a customer and using the ioLight pocket microscope in their study of plant disease and soil samples. Launched in 2016, the ioLight microscope is the first professional quality pocket digital microscope. It fits in a jacket […]
Portable Field Microscopy: Great article in Micro Matters about the ioLight portable microscope – read the article on page 22
ioLight in the spotlight at UK’s largest innovation show ioLight from Hampshire was one of 25 trailblazing innovators from across the country to launch new innovations and products at Innovate 2016 this week. The two-day event in Manchester was hosted by the Department for International Trade and Innovate UK and is the largest cross-sector innovation […]
Great article in Electro Optics magazine about the ioLight high resolution portable microscope for iPad and iPhone. The article is on page 32 of the current edition of Electro Optics which is available here
ioLight exhibited the portable microscope at the e-Luminate Light Lab as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas on the 29th Oct 2016. It was a lovely event with many families taking part in the interactive displays. It was great to have Laura Brooks from The Naked Scientist to join us for the day and write […]
ioLight has invented a portable microscope, with a resolution of better than 1μm, which produces beautiful pictures of animal and plant cells and displays them directly onto your tablet or mobile phone.
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