Digital microscopes are suitable for home or educational use. Images are displayed on a TV or computer screen, allowing details to be easily pointed out to the child.

Many are sold as toys and cost as little as $50 to $200. Popular brands or models include EyeClops (Bionic Eye), Celestron (44300, 44340), Planet Toys (Planet Earth), Digital Blue (QX5), Dino-Lite Carson, Olympus, Motic, Orion, C2D, MicroXplore (PC300), Nikon, Konus (Konuspix), My First Lab (Ultimate), Carson (zPix), Digivision and ProScope.

Magnifications range from 20x to 500x, the same as similarly priced educational optical microscopes. The actual magnification depends on the size of the computer or TV screen used.