This is one of those examples where both patents and venture capital come out shining.

Incredible work, the stamina on display is extremely impressive and I hope they and their backers will reap the rewards from all the hard work very many times over.

To put in laymans terms what this thing is: it's a tape-playback machine for DNA.

Now they need to fix the bugs (hard, but probably not nearly as hard as getting to this stage in the first place).