We’ve gone digital with so many aspects in our lives. We’ve got digital cameras to take pictures, digital signals for our televisions, and digital clocks to tell the time. It’s about time that our semi-scientific endeavors enter the world of 0s and 1s too. That’s where you might consider the digital microscope from ThinkGeek.

The 1.3 Megapixel Digital Microscope does exactly what you think it does. It works just like a regular microscope, except the imaging aspect is basically a USB-powered digital webcam instead of using conventional optics. You can use this USB microscope to capture high resolution images from up-close items.

Yes, it is only capable of producing a mere 1.3 megapixels, but this digital microscope can be used to produce good quality videos as well. The specimens can be things collected around the yard, around the office, or anywhere in between. You can zoom in on a variety of different objects in a way that you simply would not be able to see with a regular digital camera. It’s plug-and-play and you can magnify as much as 200x. Time-lapse movies are also a possibility.

Find the USB digital microscope for $349.99 on ThinkGeek. No one said that satisfying your curiosity came cheap.