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QX5 Digital Blue Computer Microscope
Digital Camera
Get children to play the
smart way with the Digital Blue series QX5 USB Computer
Microscope. The QX5 magnifies anything from 10x all the
way to 200x, and kids can use this microscope to view their
favorite goodies - ants, bees wings, their school lunch...Well,
they can use this to examine just about anything their little
hearts desire!
The QX5 is not only a microscope
though, it also serves as a multi-function digital camera
for taking digital still images and creating time-lapse
movies. The QX5 also includes photo manipulation software
that allows them to create and experiment with special effects
and audio effects, which can all be inserted into the same
images taken with the QX5. The QX5 microscope is a great
toy for any child with an imagination, and will keep them
happy for a long time to come!
Electrical power for the
camera system and specimen illumination lamps is obtained
from the computer through the USB port.. The included software
package provides an interface that is very nicely done with
excellent graphics and audio clips that are presented through
a kid-friendly layout. Students are able to capture single
images, make movies, and perform time-lapse investigations
on a variety of specimens with a single click of the mouse.
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$255.00
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New Upgraded QX5 Model
Now Features:
- Super-brite LED lighting for brighter,
longer lasting top and bottom illumination
- High resolution (640x480) for more detailed
images
- Video playback now three times faster
at 15 frames per second
- Sample measurement tools built into the
software
- Magnify objects and view them on your
PC, at 10X, 60X, and 200X
- Take snapshots, video, and time-lapse
movies
- Manipulate images with drawing and painting
tools
- Experiment with your creations using special
effects and sound
- Share your discoveries through e-mail
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Much More Than Just Slides with the QX5
The most impressive thing
about this microscope is the fact you can take it out of its
slide-viewing cradle. As long as it's still plugged into the
computer, you can magnify anything with it: the hairs on your
arm, your eyeball, flowers, or even the hidden microscopic
text on money. While it is harder to focus using the microscope
in handheld mode, it allows children to interact with a moving
and alive world, rather than the pre-prepared, dead, flat
world of the traditional microscope.
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Movies of the Microscopic World with the QX5
Another feature of the microscope
is that it's not just a stills camera, it's a movie camera too.
Carpet fly-overs, centipede's leg articulation or flies digesting
their food can all be captured. You can even create a time-lapse
movie. Photographing a sprouting seed over hours and then playing
the images back as a movie is an amazing leap forward from the static
view of a traditional microscope.
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Image Capture and Editing
With the CD-ROM software included
with QX5 Computer Microscope you can capture images and manipulate
them with simplified, but still very useful paint tools and
special effects (including fly-eye, kaleidoscope and atomic
glow). If this pretty versatile array of image manipulating
tools isn't enough you can even import or export your captured
images to other programs.
Kids can share their creations
by printing their projects as posters or stickers or by e-mailing
images to friends. Children can also create their own slide
presentations by sequencing and editing the captured images,
video clips and time-lapse movies and adding music and sound
effects.
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Well Suited to the Very Young and Old Scientist
The unit itself appears robust, is
brightly coloured and very simple to use...even parents will understand
how it works. Time has been taken over the computer interface too.
All captured images and movies are stored in one easily accessed
collection window. Image manipulation is straightforward and very
"undoable" if you make a mistake. Most kids should be
able to enjoy the product as soon as it's installed and features
like spoken word help will guide them through the more complicated
functions.
This item includes:
- QX5 Microscope (This is the latest version)
- USB Cable
- Stand
- QX5 Microscope Software
- Instructions and guide on CD
- Specimen Jars
- Sample Slide
- Tweezers
- Eye Dropper
- Slide Clip
System Requirements:
- Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, 98, 98SE, and Windows ME.
- Available USB port
- Intel Pentium, Celeron 200MHz or processor that is comparable
or faster. Special effects are enhanced for the Intel® Pentium®
4 processor.
- 32MB of RAM
- Minimum 150MB hard drive space
- 4x CD-ROM Drive or faster
- SVGA 800 x 600 resolution video support (min. 16-bit color)
- Windows compatible sound device
- Direct X8 (included on CD-ROM)
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