A sonicator (also called an ultrasonic homogenizer or probe sonicator) uses high-frequency sound waves to create intense vibrations and microscopic cavitation bubbles in liquid samples. When those bubbles collapse, they release strong shear forces.
The SmartDoc E5001-SDB (also called SmartDoc 2.0) is a gel-imaging system used to view nucleic acid gels safely (i.e. DNA/RNA agarose gels) and take photographs of them using a smartphone.