Patrick McElhiney finally broke out and bought a nice lab quality microscope for use for marketing and educational purposes. Below are some slides that Patrick captured with his new microscope. The microscope is capable of magnifying slides up to 2500 times their original size, and has four different magnifying lenses, in addition to a 14 mega-pixel digital camera that can capture stills and videos in high definition. Patrick hopes to be able to use the microscope to investigate the differences between different printing types, and he also conveniently is working on a group project in his Big Data class at UNH Manchester that is about building a highly scalable database to store petabytes worth of microscope slide captures, from a microscope that is much more complex than the one that Patrick owns now. That microscope uses four different bands of laser light, to magnify objects as small as neurons in rat brains to the size of a pencil eraser head. Patrick isn't sure what the magnification level is, because apparently it's some type of "Top Secret" microscope for cutting edge medical research on rat brains, or even human brains in the future - to be able to see the dendrites and axioms as clear as day. Patrick gets exposure to a lot of high tech projects because he attends UNH Manchester - he's currently building out an Amazon Web Services project to house all of the slide scans, which will literally be petabytes of information spread out over multiple data centers. Enjoy Patrick's slides!