Chances are, your first microscope was a plain-jane model that worked. Now we live in the future, which has replaced such things with hi-tech LCD display-sprouting models that look like they won't work for very long at all.
The Celestron LCD Digital Microscope magnifies stuff at up to 40x, has 128MB of storage and an SD card slot. This $300 block of molded plastic also comes with an AC adapter and a free USB cable to hook it up on the go, just like the "scientists" in popular and realistic Hollywood movies like The Cave.
Product Page [Celestron via I4U and Gizmodo]
