One obvious example is the quick and relatively painless adoption of unleaded petrol, thanks to differential tax rates which discriminated against leaded petrol.
Over the past century, more have been taken in the northern hemisphere than in the southern, and, for obvious reasons, there have been relatively few measurements at sea (though that may soon change, see article).
It takes some obvious design cues from a certain very popular portable digital music player and sports two relatively large speakers flanking a multi-line LCD.
So sophisticated are the technologies involved and so backwards is the non-military sector of the Soviet economy that the obvious immediate beneficiary of an up-to-date microelectronics manufacturing capability is certain to be the relatively modern defense industrial base.