With three magnification settings - 10X, 60X and 200X - the QX3 microscope does not have the higher resolution or precision controls of many classroom microscopes, which typically offer magnification of 400X or higher. (Universal Serial Bus) peripheral connection port, which includes almost all PC's made in the last 18 months. The QX3 attaches to any Windows computer that has a U.S.B. Together, Intel and Mattel have created a new microscope for the digital age, one that goes far beyond the capabilities of the beginner microscopes that many of us used for our first glimpse of the hidden beauty of the microscopic world. The brains behind the microscope are provided by the Intel Corporation, which knows a thing or two about computers. The bugs - in this case a fruit fly and a plant louse, both long deceased - come in the box with the new Intel Play QXE Computer Microscope, along with an assortment of other tiny, slide-mounted specimens, including algae, plant spores, a hair of the dog and even the bee's knees.Īlthough it is made by the toy giant Mattel and packaged as a toy, the QX3 microscope ($99.95) is serious fun. IT is hardly news when a computer product is released with bugs in it, but it is rare indeed when the bugs are the cause of so much delight.
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