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This Digital Microscope Magnifies Tiny Details, Saves Images and Videos—Plus, It’s On Sale

A digital microscope goes way beyond what a magnifying glasses can do.

By Matt Jancer | Reviewed by Ysolt Usigan

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Working with small parts is always a bit of a headache when it comes to electronics repair, assembling a new PC build, and model building. You could slap on a pair of jeweler’s eyeglasses, but there’s a high-tech option: the DM9 7″ Digital Microscope. On its flat workspace you place your project as you work on it, and a camera feeds zoomed-in video to the seven-inch screen as you work. It’s selling for $70 right, down from its usual $96 street price.

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The Tomlov’s camera sensor measures 12 megapixels, which—and I’m no expert on digital microscopes—seems fairly adequate for such up-close work. You can zoom in from 5x to 1200x, and........

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