Win a high resolution pocket digital microscope

We have teamed up with the lovely people at ioLight to bring you the chance to win an incredible pocket digital microscope!

This microscope uses the latest mobile technology to display detailed and beautiful images directly on to an iPad for sharing and pasting into reports.

All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning is to identify the image below. It has been taken using the ioLight digital microscope and is of an everyday object found on your person or around the home.

To give an idea of scale, it shows approximately a 1mm wide section of the object – the more precise you are about specifically what it is, then the greater chance you have of winning. The winner will be chosen at random from all of the correct entries.

So what could it be? Just email with your guess, name, address and organisation/institution to enter.

This is your last chance to enter for a chance to be placed into the prize draw.  Well done to all those who correctly identified last month's image as a teabag.

In May this year UK start-up - ioLight - launched the first high resolution pocket digital microscope - the first professional quality pocket digital microscope.

The ioLight microscope fits in a jacket pocket, is simple to use and robust. It can record and share 5MP still images and real time HD video at a magnification of x200 on an iPad Air. The resolution is 1 micron - powerful enough to see the structure of plant and animal cells. The product uses standard microscope slides and features adjustable top and bottom illumination for use on both biological and opaque samples. It is particularly good for live samples, which deteriorate on the journey back to the lab, and it works anywhere, even without a WiFi or mobile phone network.

Founders Richard Williams and Andrew Monk have used their experience of over 20 years in optical engineering to reconfigure low cost mobile phone parts into a compact and flexible device.

For further information about ioLight visit iolight.co.uk or email Andrew Monk at andrew.monk@iolight.co.uk