How can a combination of open source software and a whole bunch of e-waste be opening up brand new perspectives for people in developing countries?

Researchers in the US have developed a small 3D-printable device with a lens that clips onto smartphones and can be used as an inexpensive microscope in regions where diagnostic equipment is not readily available.

The high tech wizards from D-Rev design vital medical equipment for those people who live on less than four dollars a day. What does that include? A milling machine, a laser cutting machine, a 3D printer and a climate chamber made out of a wine refrigerator to test the effects of moisture, temperature or sand on prototypes.

One organisation is looking to boost Haitian medical efforts using 3D printing.