Foldscope is an origami microscope made with a single sheet of paper that's embedded with electronics and lenses. It costs less than $1 to build. Manu Prakash is the inventor of this low-cost scientific tool. He wants microscopes to be as ubiquitous as pencils and plans on shipping one million Foldscopes by the end of 2017.

It's his work in, what he calls, "frugal science" that won him the MacArthur Genius Grant. Over the next five years, he will receive $625,000 to continue inventing low-cost scientific tools that can be available to anyone. Watch our video to see what other inventions the physical biologist has created using simple tools.

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