Someone turned their old DVD drives into a freaking laser scanning microscope

Living in the future if one thing is clear, it's that digital media is king. In the gaming world, it's becoming far more common to buy games digitally than it is to purchase physical copies. This has been true in PC gaming for years now with the success of Steam, lickety-split SSDs, and new consoles now releasing without disc drives. While some companies are seeing an increase in optical drives sales, generally speaking the days of the DVD drive are well and truly over⁠—but what to do with those leftover drives?

DVD drives especially aren't of much use to anyone anymore. Streaming services will often offer better quality versions of the same movies in digital format. Plus, if you're a big physical media fan you've likely upgraded to Bluray or gone the other way complete