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Make your own digital magnifier for cheap?

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One of our favorite gadget sites (Red Ferret Journal) has a bit about a $100+ digital magnifier - pricey and something not a lot of us will buy, but you could use our past tip to make your portable digital magnifier with your cell phone camera...Link.

I've heard about a few cameras for the elderly with big buttons and a simple inferface, maybe they could add a hardware/software feature like this to magnify things or as always make your own - After all we always have our cell phones with us!

Pictured here, HOW TO - Take macro (close up) photos with a cell phone - Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Jan 17, 2007 05:40 AM
Cellphones, DIY Projects | Permalink | Comments (2)

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The digital magnifier is mis-priced on the blog. The retail price is $899.00 not the $139.99 posted in the article. That only for the extented 7 year warranty!! Even more incentive to build your own!!

Posted by: silverhalo on January 17, 2007 at 12:23 PM

Lets make one using a PSP

Posted by: AFnNoob on January 17, 2007 at 1:59 PM

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