Planet Toys Planet Earth Digital Microscope Kit
- Includes microscope and digital camera
- One eyepiece adaptor, four prepared slides, and eight blank slides
- One pair tweezers and four plastic bags
- One explorer book
- One software CD Rom and one special planet earth CD
Product Description
Magnify your scientific experience Planet Earth Toys are designed to evoke childrens natural curiosity to explore and learn about our extraordinary world Includes everything you need to magnify nature Observe and learn about planet earths microscopic world use theWeb Cam to create a snapshot of your slide and connect the Web Cam to the microscope and view objects on your computer The allinone digital microscope digital camera microscope and web cam All In One … More >>
Planet Toys Planet Earth Digital Microscope Kit
Unbelievable crap. Camera is nothing more than a cheap webcam. Doesn’t integrate into the microscope. Essentially just sits on top. Fuzzy poor resolution picture. Included software is minimal. Focus on microscope is ineffective. Slides are less than diverse. I fear the frustration of this toy has pushed my daughter further away from learning the joys and miracles of nature.
Also bought Planet Earth’s grow a world. Better product but how can you mess up a plastic globe and seeds. Instructions are confusing. The product does waste a lot of water. To me this seems against the message of “Planet Earth” Practice what you preach. Also both products use alot more packaging than needed. Regardless of what Planet Earth wants you to believe these are not environmentally friendly products.
I do enjoy the documentaries, books and movies that Planet Earth develops. Unfortunately their educational tools are well below par, a waste of money, and a poor use of the Earth’s limited resources.
Rating: 1 / 5
Purchased 2 of these crap o scopes today for Christmas presents. Wanted to try it out before I gave it as a gift. Toy is a gimmick. The magnification on the microscope is worse than a cereal box magnifying glass. The web cam is just that, a web cam. Once the web cam is hooked up to the microscope then the fun really starts – if you like staring at a grey, blurry image on your screen.
These are going back to Toys R Us tomorrow for a full refund. I would not recommend this toy to any age group.
Rating: 1 / 5
The company that makes this pile of crap is no longer in business or at least they have no website anymore. Only reason they sell it is because it won’t fit in a cereal box. Absolute junk. Sorry honey the elves made a broken one.
Rating: 1 / 5
Very disappointing. Doesn’t work as promised. It is nearly impossible to focus the microscope so that you can actually see something. We use a pc and were not able to get the software to work properly. Useless!
Don’t buy this, you will be wasting your money. Invest in a real microscope.
Rating: 1 / 5
The toy was very educational however I had to return it because it was too advanced for the age of the child I bought it for otherwise I would have kept it.
Rating: 5 / 5