Manu Prakash - An Assistant Professor of bio engineering at Stanford University, who made a fold-able microscope which he is calling it as "Foldscope". In the words of this IIT Kanpur student, the world need it and every coming generation child should carry a pocket microscope and those children should know what actually they are dealing with "microscopically".
In his words, most of the countries still using microscopes which were introduced long back and that causing the primary scalability for health diagnosis is completely out of reach.
This picture is Mahatma Gandhi in the '40s using the exact same setup that we actually use today for diagnosing T.B. in his ashram in Sevagram, India.
Manu Prakash and his students thought about this when they traveled India and Thailand and the result, they made this "Foldscope".
So what is a Foldscope? A Foldscope is a completely functional microscope, a platform for fluorescence, bright-field, polarization, projection, all kinds of advanced microscopy built purely by folding paper.
It starts with a single sheet of paper. What you see here is all the possible components to build a functional bright-field and fluorescence microscope. So, there are three stages: There is the optical stage, the illumination stage and the mask-holding stage. And there are micro optics at the bottom that's actually embedded in the paper itself. What you do is, you take it on, and just like you are playing like a toy, which it is, I tab it off, and I break it off.
This entire equipment which was made by paper and using some smart engineering techniques, decreased the manufacturing costs up to 50 cents only. He tells us to think about the new the paradigm of microscopy which he says as "use-and-throw microscopy".
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