WOW! Check out the imagery on this box. You could see how this would attract children to the shelf that it sits on. Coming from the 2010s, this kind of toy was loved by those caught in the children’s-spy-thriller era. For a while, kids wanted to be like the Spy Kids, Agent Cody Banks, Alex Rider or even Johnny English, even long after the era had slowed down. These toys would fullfil this with offers of covert operations and cool-tech that wouldn’t look out of place in Q’s laboratory.
This claims to be an aid to seeing things close-up, given to you under the guise of it being used for fingerprints and allowing you to identify materials. Before testing it, it is a clunky piece of kit and needs batteries to work. I feel that even in the 2010s, this could have easily been rechargable and all integrated into the main eyeball unit. I also believe that it would benefit from being a simple USB camera. The cost of webcam technology is very low and could be assisted with changable lenses. On the plus side, it has a long viewing tube tube that is attached to the eye. I do enjoy the encouragement of learning on the one of the instructional pages. Looking at the instructions, there is nothing, that I could seem about what to do after you have abserved the insect. Perhaps a needed notice for children could just be a small reminder of what to do with living creatures after they have studied them. There is also a wide dish for viewing specimens. This would work well with liquids and things that you want to hold in place.
The connection to the TV is via the RCA plug. It is clearly made to occupy the markets in the USA, but even-so, it’ll do well anywhere. Only being video compliant means it just has the yellow plug. Much of the available TVs, now, don’t have the RCA connections like they did, so this could be interesting. Upon its test, I will use a HDMI converter so that I can capture it. We shall see how the 200x magnification really works. The build is okay, but the switches and main eyeball casing is something to be sneered at. On the whole, it’s a fun way to have a toy scientific-microscope, giving the user a sense of being a spy in the field. Until the test, I can say that buying it used for £5, was quite the gem. You can also still buy it for £13, new, so I’ll let you make your own minds up on the price.
