I remember this concept in a paper from university of texas maybe 14 years ago or more, it was pretty exciting but i did not have enough application to my curre

I remember this concept in a paper from university of texas maybe 14 years ago or more, it was pretty exciting but i did not have enough application to my current projects to explore the idea more. It's exciting to see how fast this reached a tinkerer marked and home labs. There is also the microbiology analogue where instead of big droplets you can move single cells or beads with activated surfaces in a fluid with dielectrophoresis. These lab on a chip devices seemed so logical and i imagined we would soon be able to do complex blood analysis and do completely automated experiments with minimal manual work and completely driven by software. The reality was disappointing enough for me to go back to pure software. There were too limited real world applications and also the development cycle for complete products were just too long for me (i estimated 15 years for the kind of products i would have wanted to work on).