DIY Endoscope

Lacking the $30,000 retail price for a handy piece of medical equipment, an enterprising Vietnamese doctor cooked up his own version.

The scope captures images from the body of a patient, which are then passed through a webcam to an analysis machine.

Dr Huy spent two years building the system
"The adaptor costs almost nothing because it is simply a system of lens linked to a webcam costing just about $30.

"In total I had to buy only the scope, which is about $800," Dr Huy told the BBC World Service programme Go Digital.

Necessity is the mother of undercutting ridiculously overpriced bullshit...or something like that.