"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.
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.
Oddly, a problem that is high-tech in origin has strengthened a low-tech form of communication.
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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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.
This month Goldman Sachs, an American investment bank, and Kyocera, a high-tech ceramics firm, became the latest in a string of companies to announce the launch of a fund to invest in high-tech Japanese start-ups.
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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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.
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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In the new cabinet, it is believed Mr Lapid - a former TV presenter - will be finance minister and Mr Bennett, a high-tech millionaire, will be economic and trade minister.
He added that their boat, the Pink Lady - named after the apple company sponsoring the trip - was a high-tech vessel.
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.
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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Even farther afield is "The Abyss, " a sci-fi underwater adventure that takes place on a high-tech drilling rig that sits on the seafloor.
It did well shifting from a metal-bashing industrial economy in the 1970s to a high-tech and service economy by the 1990s, just across the river from Manhattan.
One team packed a high-tech edge: a new microphone designed by Lucent Technologies Bell Labs .
LiquiGlide is a high-tech coating that, when applied to a container renders it effectively friction-free.
So M-Farm is a low-tech app, relying on text messaging as its principal means of communication.
And for some high-risk patients who live too far away to easily track, Mitchell is pilot-testing whether a high-tech option helps them stick with care instructions.
While e-books might have started out as a high-tech novelty for early adopters, they may ultimately prove to be a great equalizer across boundaries of ability, resources and education.
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.
Earlier, seven high-tech firms pledged to help reshape Hong Kong into a high-tech hub including Motorola, Nortel, 3M and local enterprise VTech.
There is also a conference room, a high-tech communications room and a small operating room.
The Manchester, UK-based game is a high-tech version of hide and seek where players can interact online and on the street and work together to search for an elusive "Uncle Roy".
One is external to the state: the global economy has become a much more knowledge-intensive place, with even the oil business turning into a high-tech industry, so Texas needs more and better universities and schools.
Last year his group and the Hong Kong government announced that they were jointly developing the multi-billion dollar CyberPort, a high-tech incubation project.
Italy's second largest airport has adopted a high-tech passenger tracking system developed by a Scottish business technology solutions company.
Anti-terrorism experts say it never should have happened, and that specially trained bomb-sniffing dogs could have provided a low-tech way to detect such items.
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