is an appliance intended to facilitate and generalize access to the vast amount of information present in all kinds of sounds, audible or not. It can be used to study, recognize and modify those sounds. It uses a proprietary, "biomimetic" frequency spectrum analyzer that works like the ear and in real time, thus saving computational power and resources. A number of applications have been demonstrated in medicine and other fields. The RayVan Minilab is ready for licensing and/or commercial prototyping.