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...states and is aiming to open an additional 3,000 in the next two years. Each kiosk is run by an entrepreneur from the village, typically a man in his mid-20s. The cost of a kiosk package--computer, digital camera, Internet connection over a cell-phone line, and printer--is $1,500, which is paid back over a few years. Each entrepreneur also pays a fixed monthly fee of $11. For that, there is help if anything goes wrong with the hardware, special rural-focused online packages that Drishtee develops (like the matchmaking service) and regular visits from insurance...
...reliable paper trail). "Unless someone can come up with a foolproof method of producing a paper trail with touch-screen machines, this is how we need to go," says Nelson, pointing out that attempts up to now to make DRE paper-trail compatible have too often led to printer paper jams and other "screw...
Things in Dr. Anthony Atala's lab at Wake Forest University are not always what they seem. On one lab bench, surrounded by gutted printer cartridges, lie the inner workings of an inkjet printer. But this isn't the scene of some document-printing job gone awry. Instead, the printer has been jury-rigged to handle something much more extraordinary than ink - it now sprays tiny living cells into the three-dimensional forms of human organs...
...cases - for the bladder, blood vessels and valves, for example - he uses a biodegradable material made of collagen, the structural component in skin. But in order to create more complex structures, such as the heart, he needed something far more sophisticated as a matrix. That's where the inkjet printer came in. One of Atala's colleagues had the bright idea that if a printer can spray tiny bits of ink in a pre-set pattern, why couldn't that same technique be used to scatter cells into pre-designed templates? So, instead of printing in one dimension, Atala...
...crafting emotive characters eclipses his will to satirize, and the two divergent intentions, proving themselves mutually exclusive, make “The Gum Thief” a somber failure.The novel’s setting is far more conducive to the latter aspiration: a chain of stores that supplies highlighters, printer paper, and rolling chairs is about as sterilized and as far away from the human condition as one can get. But here, it lacks the “Office Space” hijinks that Coupland would ideally revel in. “The Gum Thief” squanders Staples?...