So in 2014 he created a paper microscope, aptly named the Foldscope, that costs only 50 cents to produce. Though microscopes might seem like a mundane piece of equipment, they remain an integral ...

Inspired by pencils and ballpoint pens, the most accessible and utilized tools he could think of, Prakash set the price point for his microscope to be produced at a mere $1. The challenge that ...

The sentence was spoken after a class presentation that I gave on the Stanford-University-developed Foldscope — a portable, affordable, paper microscope that can be used by anyone, anywhere ...