This document summarizes a presentation about announcements from Oxford Nanopore Technologies at the Advances in Genome Biology & Technology meeting. Oxford Nanopore unveiled two new sequencing devices - the desktop-sized GridION and the palm-sized MinION sequencer, which resembles a USB stick. Both devices use nanopore sequencing to directly sequence DNA or RNA in real-time without the need for sample preparation. This technology could potentially sequence an entire human genome in 15 minutes. Oxford Nanopore is aiming for increased sequencing accuracy and lower costs with these portable, easy-to-use sequencers.