ink-jet printer

So there are instruction manuals in there for everything from the garbage disposal to the new ink-jet printer to the bike I got for Christmas when I was seven.

The team's solution was a device that functioned much like an ink-jet printer: it would fire tiny droplets of water across the beam in a continuous stream with the nanocrystals in suspension.

“The idea is to have a room with 10,000 Petri dishes, each a few millimetres wide, and a robot that works like an ink-jet printer,” says Blikstein.

What's happening is that people are projecting their hopes, fears and fantasies on to what is basically the logical extension of an old technology – the ink-jet printer.

The pump sounds as innocuous as an old ink-jet printer.