"Control systems, computers, pumps, chemicals, vehicles — everything.
In a building near Tehran University, young men and women huddle over a handful of computers, pumping out breaking news from campuses across Iran for the ISNA website.
There have already been instances of nefarious types taking control of webcams, televisions and even a fridge, which was roped into a network of computers pumping out e-mail spam.
I can't just sit at my computer, pump out a book and hit publish on Amazon, but that's probably a good thing because if I was given that type of freedom I'd probably drive my agent and publishers insane.
I know where I was: slumped in front of a computer, pumping out keyword slop and characterless branded content, begging for the sweet release of death.
At the same time, the computer pumps air from a reservoir into the front and rear suspension systems, giving them a firm setting to prevent the bicycle from bouncing unpleasantly as the rider sets off.
At its top commercial tier, hip-hop can seem monolithic: a nonstop party where guys brag about their money, their women, their old bullet wounds and their new business ventures, all to the crispest beats computers can pump out.
Motorola is a powerhouse in the supply of cable equipment, from the set-top boxes in many customers' homes to the computers that pump video streams to those customers.
Medicare's computers were pumping out thousands of payments a year for patients who had been struck off the programme before receiving their treatment, until human hands began to intervene this year.
Dr Masatoshi Iji, the research fellow who has led NEC's product development in this area, says it could be used to make the casings for computers, petrol pumps and in car interiors.
