Optics Planet and Braintree Scientific and New Era syringe pumps: Inexpensive scientific equipment

Optics Planet has a nice selection of inexpensive microscopes and other lab equipment. Such as these chubby, potential Cute Overload stars from Nikon (above, the blue one that is taking a bow is $380).

Braintree Scientific also has a really nice selection of reasonably priced equipment. Tons of very interesting, unique products. Get the catalog and flip through it– the website isn’t so nice to browse. They do custom work too, in case you have something specific in mind. One of their new products is a netbook+syringe pump package, pictured below:

I recognize the syringe pump as one of New Era’s OEM pumps. New Era sells all kinds of syringe pumps, from barebones OEM devices ($500, controlled via RS-232), to digital ($750) and multi-syringe units ($1500). You can use one of the OEM units for things like delivering water rewards in behavior rigs.