#handheld microscope

[labotronicsscientific]

Portable digital microscope

Portable digital microscope is an independent and easy to operate handheld unit. It provides powers from 20X and 300X with 5.0MP Image sensor. LED illumination with LED lamps for enhancing details in microscopic images.Compatible for PC usage with USB connection

[lapisgrasstext]

Magnesium sulphate (epsom salt) zoomed under a microscope

[labnic235]

Micro Spectrophotometer - Labnic

Micro Spectrophotometer is a full wavelength instrument that measures sample volumes ranging from 0.3 to 2.0µl with high accuracy, reproducibility, and speed. It is made of stainless steel and quartz fiber, and its light source is a xenon lamp. The instrument includes an operating system and a 7-inch high-definition display with full touch functionality. It is a Nano-spectrophotometer with an optical range of 190 - 1100 mm and two USB ports for connecting to various devices, as well as a built-in Bluetooth option.

[surprisesafari]

Handheld Microscope With 5" LCD Screen, Portable Pocket Digital Microscopes For Kids With Camera, Opqpq ODM5 Pro 1200X HDMI Coin Microscope For Error Coins, Soldering Microscope For Electronics Repair

"Say hello to the 'Pocket Peeker': It's not your grandma's magnifying glass! This portable microscope with lights lets you play scientist by day and undercover spy by night, revealing the hidden world of all things itty-bitty and glowy!"

[charlesoberonn]

If somebody is telling you that "X has more germs than a toilet seat", especially if they're trying to sell you something, always keep in mind that while that's technically true, that's mostly because toilet seats are very clean, and not because X is particularly dirty.

Toilet seats are usually made of porcelain, which has a smooth texture lacking much of the microscopic crevices that hold moisture and make for good germ culturing. They're also cleaned a lot more often than other household appliances or handheld items.

[kayleigh-83]

Hobbies and sub-hobbies

I've been working on implementing a sub-hobby system in my game recently and really enjoying it! I took a look at the different activities available for different hobbies and came up with my list, which I thought I'd share here.

I do have some mods that change the hobby enthusiasm of some objects, or add new ones - I'll link where applicable.

I don't assign these based on any system, just vibes. I usually stick with whatever hobby the game assigns, but I do sometimes change them if it really feels like it doesn't fit to me. The sub-hobbies are intended to be a main focus, but Sims can and will still try other aspects of their overall hobby, and other hobbies altogether sometimes too!

The list is a work in progress but I'm basically happy with it now.

Edit: I found a version of the punching bag that gives fitness enthusiasm instead of sports, and that activity makes more sense to me as a fitness thing, so I moved that sub-hobby over.

Edit 2: Combined a couple gaming subhobbies into "Social Games" and added MyShuno to that category.

Edit 3: Combined sewing and knitting into Fibre Arts under Arts & Crafts hobbies.

Edit 4: Added candlemaking to the Arts & Crafts category.

Cuisine

Cooking

Baking

Wine & Cocktails

Foodie (restaurants, delivery)

Films & Literature

Reading

Writing (helpful but not necessary to also have this mod)

Movies

Tinkering

Restoring & Repairing (restorable car, general repairs, plus drafting blueprints thanks to a mod)

Woodworking (here and here)

Tinker Toys (RC cars, model trains, toy workbench)

Sports

Soccer

Basketball

Sports Fan (watching sports)

Golf (Execuputter reward object made buyable)

Baseball

Football

Music & Dance

Dancing

Ballet

Piano/Keyboard

Synthesizer

Violin

Singing

Guitar

Bass

Drums

Fitness

Swimming

Lifting & Cardio

Yoga

Boxing (with modded hanging bag from here - unlocked buyable punching bag still gives sports hobby, but it seems more like a fitness thing to me as a solo activity)

Arts & Crafts

Painting

Pottery

Photography (hugely aided by the buyable antique camera and Epi and PF's camera overhaul mod)

Fibre Arts (sewing, knitting with Eisbaer's edit of TonyVeis' 4t2 mod)

Candlemaking

Science

Stargazing/Aliens

Biotech (buyable Biotech station and microscopes with science enthusiasm added)

Robotics (this mod makes robotics science related which makes far more sense to me)

Games

Video Games (console, handheld, computer, arcade games)

Board Games (chess, Don't Wake the Llama, mahjong)

Social Games (darts, poker, pool, bowling, MyShuno)

Nature

Entomology (hunting bugs, catching fireflies and butterflies)

Animals (small pets like womrats, birds, koi fish, bird watching)

Gardening (harvestable crops, orchard trees - I play with perfect plants mod so they don't have to maintain flowers and shrubs)

Outdoorsy (fishing, hiking, camping, cloud watching)

Flower Arranging (this mod changes the enthusiasm on the flower bench to nature)

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

Guess who got a handheld microscope after seeing that one post

[olitheworm]

Handheld Microscope🔬-- New Icon for myself, also done live on stream. I literally streamed longer than I normally do because I really wanted to get this done. Worth it🦐

[unbreakabledawn]

My friend, I thought this was a normal space movie it was not I’m kind of excited it turned out to be g/t.

BUT LIKE THE TITLE IS A BIT MISLEADING LOL.

i've watched this! i'm not too into this kind of g/t where they're like microscopic size, just bc i personally prefer the borrower size dynamic of smol handheld guys. but i love all g/t representation in media <3 there's also Fantastic Voyage although it's more dated, i haven't watched it but it's a classic

fun fact bruce did this to clark in a comic once

[puddleorganism]

I got a handheld microscope recently and these are my discoveries:

So many things shimmer or are slightly iridescent when you get up close

Rocks are sick

It is absolutely imperative I take this thing to the beach sometime

Dogs don’t like to be looked at under a microscope. They don’t understand

[axisvalence]

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[labnic235]

Digital Microscope - Labnic

Digital microscope is an advanced digital microscope with built-in 5.0 MP camera and USB 2.0 output. Equipped with an infinity semi-plan optical system and a standard magnification of 40X to 1000X. Its ergonomic design enables reliable operation for long hours.

[ivytea]

Hi, I enjoy your art a lot.

I used to make art but I've not been able to recently.

Is there anything that inspires you a lot? Or makes you feel the I want to draw/make this feeling?

Thank you in advance 🩷

hi! I was thinking over your message this week because this is something i struggle with a lot, so various media/things have worked at various times, but here are some things that have given me this feeling in the past: movies/tv: - kingdom of dreams and madness, song of the sea, from up on poppy hill, grand budapest hotel, phantom thread, the night is short walk on girl, urasawa naoki's manben books: invisible cities (italo calvino), piranesi (susanna clarke) underland (robert macfarlane). - skip & loafer, blue period, witch hat atelier - also various folklore and mythology collections other: visiting libraries or museums/digital collections online, keeping an eye out for unusual events/shows in your area, lectures/videos & interesting concepts (animals/architecture/culture, whatever), going on walks, & making cursed little crafts. - recently I got a little handheld microscope and while idk if it really counts as "inspo" it's been really special to be able to look at things up close, and makes you look at your everyday surroundings differently afterwards I just want to add that it's easy to be stuck in a cycle feeling so unhappy with yourself for being unable to make things like you used to. try not to worry too much, and pursue your interests without pressure of finding inspiration, the drive to create will follow. I hope you will encounter surprising and fun moments that fill you with joy!

[skippygiraffee]

OC Smash or Pass

I was tagged by the wonderful @trashcatsnark and @beammeupbroadway for OC smash or pass >:3c I haven't spoken about Persi on my blog officially in a dedicated post (just posted art of her) so rolling the dice here and introducing her like this

RULES: pretty self explanatory. include physical descriptions or pics, and propaganda. the "other" label can be used for "sexuality misalignment" (ie: oc is femme and you're gay, vice versa or you aren't into smashing but a specific thing you wanna do with them like perhaps hug or study them under a microscope idc).

image credits: 1, 2, 3

Quick Facts

Full Name: Persimmon "Persi" Kongoseki

Height: 5’

Age: 22 (during the main game of SWSH, though obviously she scales in age with the years)

Pronouns: she/her

Sexuality: *vague shrug* (she's definitely into all genders, but for various reasons she has never explored this personally)

Features: dark brown eyes, facial moles, round glasses, multicolored hair that she got from her great-great something or other (sure it's obvious who)

Pros

Extremely non-judgemental. Generally chill about anything

Very soft (physically speaking, because she has a few rough edges). And she will let people lay on her (if she's familiar with them)

A story teller and poet by heart, and will write love poems often

Has whatever rizz is present in the familial line, but she's genuinely unsure how she got it

Knows a good deal about both Sinnoh's and Galar's myths and legends, and she will tell anyone and everyone about them

Lives in small cottage in Ballonlea, and enjoys long walks in the Tangle (but be careful!)

Cons

High chance she is picking her handheld game consoles over anything else (and she's not sorry)

Habit of stopping anything she's doing to start talking about Sinnoh and Galarian myths

Will absolutely "uhm, actually" when someone gets something wrong and she's aware of the correct answer

Extremely abrasive, and is usually unaware she's being unpleasant

Used to being a loner, so she might isolate for weeks on end. Whoops

Neutral, but Important Addition

Plushes on the bed. Yes they're everywhere. Let this be placed where anyone would like

Not sure who to tag that would like to do this, or hasn't already been tagged (since I am always so late to the party), but please if we're sharing a dash space tag me and let me see the OCs <3

[pigswithwings]

Truck or treat!

You Received: 3 Plastic Monster Trucks (Collectible), 1 Handheld Mirror (Review: "Effective at checking your makeup, really bad for vampire detection"), 2 Philosophy Textbooks, 1 Miniature Microscope, 1 Magical Spellbook with Mysterious Writing on the Front (Text: "PLEASE DON'T BUY - CURSED"), 54 Jellybeans in a Bag

[icaerosthefool]

Can people with near sightedness see something far away if they use a close mirror?

People who can only see with glasses need them because their vision has degraded. And the structure of glasses is to enhance the image by placing a focusing apparatus a certain distance from their eye to get sharpest quality of what they're looking at. --Similar to how we use magnifying glasses and microscopes to see something outside of our regular range of vision-- right? At least that's the premise.

Cameras taking pictures, specifically old cameras, and not digital cameras, but also digital cameras. Expose themselves to light to capture the detail, which is engrained into some film or sensor. I remember hearing that the negatives of film cameras have all the detail up to extremely fine detail, but the method we had to expose them made the quality get loaded. Similar to how with increased pixels, we can sharpen the image of what is on a screen. Or polygons in 3D design in games.

Mirrors and other reflective surfaces reflect whatever light photons/waves hit it. Now the amount of light does decrease depending on how much light is absorbed, because mirrors are not perfect reflective surfaces.

So my question is this: would a near sighted person, one who cannot see far away from them, be able to see detail or far away objects, which they could not normally see, with clarity as if it was that close to them by using a handheld?

I will clarify that the person can read letters on a page very crisply at 10-12 size font at an arms length. However, no magnification of the object occurs. It is that simply what they are seeing is now "closer to them" because it is on the mirrored surface

My thought is that yes they could. Because it would be as if they had a picture or video of the thing they are looking at with great detail.

I want to know what anyone else thinks? I’ll do a poll for simplicity