iCroscope - The Lens of Tomorrow

A lens that sticks to any device's camera and makes it possible to see things magnified dozens of times on the screen can turn any smartphone or tablet computer into a hand-held microscope. The soft, pliable lens currently magnifies by 15 times, but researchers are creating an improved version that will magnify objects up to 150 times. The lens sticks to a device's camera without any adhesive or glue and has been built by Thomas Larson, a University of Washington mechanical engineering alumnus. "A microscope is a tool you can do thousands of different things with and by making it cheaper, portable, and able to take pictures, you open so many different possibilities that weren't available before," Larson said. I can't wait for that huge waste of money to hit shelves, but while we wait, there is a possibility that Apple could be working on integrating Shazam's song identification tech directly into iOS 8. Song recognition apps including Shazam and SoundHound are already widely available across mobile platforms, but Apple could make it more commonplace by making this functionality part of its device and software ecosystem. Songs identified through the feature could then be matched against the iTunes catalog and offered for purchase. Speaking of song, an English-language song has finally joined Gangnam Style in the billion views club. That's right, Baby by Justin Bieber has 1,021,424,664 views on YouTube at time of posting. Nice going, bellends. You sure know good music when you hear it. There are much better songs that could've reached a billion views before Justin Bieber's one.