Caerphilly-based RMB Security Services Limited's Lifestraw - A high-tech water-filter in a straw, invented and manufactured by Swiss company Vestergaard-Frandsen, which uses allows soldiers to drink clean water from any source while out on operations.
He sat out the tech boom--a painful call when high-tech stocks soared, but a decision that now looks prescient.
So often people think it has to be a high-tech solution--a new laser or a new drug--to be powerful, and what we do in our work is use these very expensive, high-tech, state-of-the-art measures to prove how powerful low-tech and low-cost interventions can be.
So is the success of clean energy a flash in the pan, or does green-tech have a long-term future?
Is Mousemail.com nothing more than a high-tech crutch, a state-of-the-art substitute for old-fashioned good parenting?
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The DFW center includes a high-tech classroom with a wall-size touch screen where firefighters can walk through layouts of planes and familiarize themselves with seats, doors and cockpits.
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But while the good times are back--the tech-heavy Nasdaq hit a six-and-a-half-year high last week--tech trade and new-economy publications have not bounced back.
"A high-tech world can no longer afford a low-tech electricity grid, " says Edison International Chairman John Bryson, who testified before the subcommittee Thursday.
"A high-tech world can no longer afford a low-tech electricity grid, " says Edison International (nyse: EIX - news - people ) Chairman John Bryson, who testified before the subcommittee Thursday.
Oddly, a problem that is high-tech in origin has strengthened a low-tech form of communication.
We already have Watson, the lab-on-a-chip tech is a few years out as well ( see the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize).
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Maybe a reporter (EMPHATICALLY NOT ME) could take a bag of high-tech doodads on a cross-country flight to New Mexico or San Francisco and try them out.
Of course, in an emerging market like the Philippines, the profits are not in cutting-edge computers (not yet) but in lower-tech airconditioners -- a fact that has not escaped LG.
But, after studying a high-tech corporate-services provider, a French grocery group, a German broking house and an American mail-order company, the authors found little correlation between loyalty and profitability.
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Back in March, Pirillo did a video of his dad (obviously a tech-savvy guy with a multi-screen setup) trying to figure out how to use the consumer preview of Windows 8.
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Ford's outfitted the Fusion Energi with a dizzying array of driver-assist tech, including a lane-keeping system, adaptive cruise control, driver alert system, active park assist, rear camera, blind-spot indicator system with cross-traffic alert and pull-drift compensation (phew).
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Projects in Egypt include a high-tech reimagining of a "fanuz, " the colourful lamp traditionally lit during Ramadan -- a home-grown response to the loss of the fanuz-manufacturing industry to China.
In 1982 Jabil went into high-tech with a contract to make add-on boards for the IBM Personal Computer unit in Boca Raton, Fla.
Each car has been given a hi-tech makeover and fitted with a state-of-the-art MiFi wireless router that acts as a mobile 4G hotspot connecting the cabs to the UK's only superfast 4G network.
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Heidelberg, Germany--I've just had a nineteenth century high tech experience--and a glimpse of the world to come.
Gartner - a tech consultancy - said the fact Windows RT offered Microsoft's Office software suite, would act in its favour, but might not be enough to compensate for other "missing" software.
Photographs are so easy to take and so ubiquitous that we're neglecting the craft of capturing images. (Before long, Google Glass, the high-tech glasses with a built-in camera, will let us take a photo of whatever we happen to be looking at.) While technology has imbued the minutia of our experience with meaning, it's also turning us into lazy photographers.
"We call it a Dick Tracy watch, " said Carl Taussig, director of information surfaces at HP Labs in Palo Alto, California, in a reference to the comic-strip detective whose high-tech wristwatch doubled as a two-way radio.
And in Hong Kong the view seems to be that buying stock in a high-tech start-up is akin to purchasing a lottery ticket.
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One team packed a high-tech edge: a new microphone designed by Lucent Technologies Bell Labs .
Still, security experts believe there's always a chance that a potential terrorist could slip onto a plane, regardless of whether he's subject to scanning at a high-tech kiosk or a hand search of bags and shoes.
Shangri-La merely had to set up a Hawaiian production outfit and get it qualified as a high-tech business to earn a 100% tax credit.
Essentially leveraged as a form of high-tech turbocharging, here a small electric motor gives a modest fuel-free power boost to a direct-fuel-injected 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine.
But what strikes me as the biggest news is the low-tech approach V3Solar took to a series of high-tech problems.
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Dell is the latest in a string of large tech-oriented companies to announce a commitment to Cloud computing and associated development, as tech giants move to embrace the next wave of computing.
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