Professor Aydogan Ozcan, currently of the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department, has invented an attachment that, with just $10.00 worth of parts, can turn your cell phone into a microscope. Dr. Ozcan, who did both his PhD and post-doc work in Electrical Engineering at Stanford, has, along with his team, won 3 awards for his design, but the real prize is that with the award monies he can (and is going to) take the cell phone microscope, dubbed the LUCAS microscope, out into the field, in Africa, to put it to practical use. (‘LUCAS’ microscope stands for “Lensless Ultrawide field Cell monitoring Array platform based on Shadow Imaging microscope” – yeah, it’s a stretch, but we didn’t name it!)