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    Pure Innovation – The Ultrascope, Powered by a Lumia Smartphone.

    2014-10-09 / Comments Off on Pure Innovation – The Ultrascope, Powered by a Lumia Smartphone.

    The Open Space Agency (OSA) and Microsoft have teamed up to create a prototype of an amazing 3D printed observatory called the ‘Ultrascope’ that is powerful enough to take pictures of outer-space. The device will be available to the masses in the next few years, see the video below, which features James Parr, founder of the OSA who designed the incredible model.   Called Ultrascope, and supporting devices such as the 41-megapixel Lumia 1020, it has the potential to completely reinvent astrophotography, making it possible to capture professional-grade celestial images, right from your back garden, for a fraction of the price of traditional space telescopes. Once 3D-printed and assembled, the…

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