Gift a Compound Microscope to Your Kids for Just $90

You niece, nephew, daughter, or son can be just like who I presume is their hero, Rick from Rick and Morty. The dude’s a scientist, he’s always using microscope while cooking up some science crap. Well this microscope from PalliPartners is apparently seeing a massive 88% discount, going down in price from $800 to just $100, plus an additional 10% off with a coupon. That discount seems too ludicrous to pass up, doesn’t it?

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So here’s a little secret some sellers on Amazon like to do. They will set the list price for something absurd and then shave off most of it so the product looks like it’s seeing a massive discount. That seems to be the case here as according to it’s price history, it hasn’t even been actually set for anywhere near its list price in the past year.

Though importantly, in the last six months, it’s stood around $120. So right now, while set at $100 plus the addition 10% off with the coupon on the product page, you are still seeing a pretty good deal relatively speaking. That combined with this being a #1 Best Seller with high reviews, it’s a great option if you’re in the market for a microscope.

Perfect for Students, Kids, and Enthusiasts

PalliPartners’s mission is to bring state-of-the-art tools to the market that can help enhance children’s cognitive skills and deepen their understandings of the world.

This research-grade compound biological microscope offers high magnification with it’s 4X objective lens, 10x objective lens, and 40x objective lens. These combine with the WF25X eyepiece with or without the 2x lens to achieve six different magnification settings. View slides at magnifications of 100x, 200x, 250x, 500x, 1,000x, or 2,000x.

The top and bottom LEDs simultaneously light your subject with its dual illumination system to provide high-resolution, color corrected images. The solid metal frame and fine focusing knobs help ensure high detail and precise focus adjustment so images seen are clear and sharp.

One cool feature is the phone adapter which allows you to place your phone camera lens up against the eyepiece and view what it sees right on your phone screen. Take pictures, record video, or just be used to observe easily. A Bluetooth remote control let’s you take control of your iPhone or Android phone to use the shutter and snap pics or take video while your phone is mounted to the microscope.

So even though this microscope has never actually seen its full price of $800 in maybe ever, the price of $90 is still a good chunk of change less than it’s average price across the last year. Be sure to clip the coupon on the product page to save that additional 10%.

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