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Re:The Myth of America's Tech Talent Shortage by marshray on Monday April 29, 2013 @01:44PM (#5627604)
> why is he looking through the lens if the microscope is plugged into a monitor?

Must be one of those newfangled stereographic retina-resolution microscopes.

Re:The Myth of America's Tech Talent Shortage by tzs on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @04:17AM (#5630960)
It appears to be a binocular microscope, but not a stereo microscope. A stereo microscope has two separate optical paths to the specimen, one for each eye.

A non-stereo binocular microscope has one optical path from the specimen to the eyepiece assembly, and then uses a prism to split that so that it can be sent two eyepieces. This increases comfort and reduces eyestrain compared to a single eyepiece microscope.