iTrap

From Hands-on with optical tweezers: a multitouch interface for holographic optical trapping:

I was scanning this paper for some sort of scientific justification.  Near the beginning, they say,  "The widespread deployment of multiple-trap optical tweezers..."  Really?  I'm in the optical tweezers field, and obviously it's a different part of the field altogether, but I seriously have my doubts that these instruments are widespread.  I don't even know what they're used for.  I looked around Arryx's web site, and found:

Because our technology can use multiple laser beams at low power to hold an object, it is ideal for handling cells and other sensitive objects and materials. The BioRyx 200 system can be used to collect specified types of cells from a mixed suspension, manipulate cells for enhanced viewing, measure cell-cell interactions and cell-object interactions, and hold sample material for further investigation or isolation.

Okaaaayyyy...I don't do cell biology, but I don't know any labs that do that have one of these.  But, whatever, they've been in business for a while (I even know people who work at Arryx), so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.  But "widespread" may be pushing it a bit.

The other bit of justification was:

We believe that the capacity for true real-time independent control of numerous

simultaneous traps, coupled with visual feedback directly beneath the user’s fingertips, besides providing increased experimental throughput and faster training of the operator, will open many doors in interdisciplinary research. For example, this system could be used in studies of motile cells, or single-cell microsurgery.

Cell motility studies with optical traps, like this one from 1989?  I don't mean to sound like a playa hater, I understand the gee-whiz factor, it's pretty neat.  But, let's just say that I'm glad that this was done in the UK, beacuse I would hate to think that they were spending my tax dollars on it.