Microscope

[Paddy]

Had one when I was a kid. I looked at some tap water and it put me of drinking it for weeks.

[barrydidit]

Afternoon All,

hope you're all doing fine ad enjoying the summer.

Come to mention it I was in blighty last week with Mrs Benes and the children visiting grandparents, we rented a Skoda Octavia from Hertz at the airport and they were so kind they upgraded us to an black E Class E220D AMG edition - which was nice

Anyway down to business

I want to get the children a microscope for Christmas.

Am thinking about this Apex model:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Apex-Microsc...pex+microscope

Anybody any experience of buying a reasonable quality microscope for children and which make and model ?

As ever, I want to buy one and not have to upgrade later - don't like spending money twice

Best,

Milan.

p.s. plan b is doing fine

the angel investment has tippled in six months

and just had an idea for an Uber / AirBnB class of app

I don't know anything about microscopes. Or your penis. But I'd like to wish you and yours an unreasonably early Merry Christmas.

[darmstadt]

They don't make them anymore but I've got one of these Intel Play - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and they're great fun. I should dig it out and make some images to post on here, maybe even some for Stek

[IR35 Avoider]

I thought a microscope these days would be a USB device that you viewed on a computer screen. Are traditional optical ones still in widespread use?

(I have no relevant expertise, haven't looked down one since high-school biology.)

A search on Amazon for USB microscope does seem to find many items.

[CloudWalker]

£230 for a microscope ! they'll be bored of it in a hour and back on the iPad playing Hay Day!

[SueEllen]

I bought a microscope from, wait for it, Lidl.

It's ok ish.

The amazon one looks a good deal more professional, you might even be able to see stuff through it.

I thought they had some offers selling that randomly.

They've also sold binoculars, bird watching (the flying kind) glasses and telescopes.

[alluvial]

My missus bought me one of these

Works really well. Haven't used it much apart from creating great gross-out pictures of a tick found on one of the dogs and a head-louse from one of the kids still with its last meal in it.