This meant that for the drop-test we were able to let the Panasonic free-fall from a height of three feet, while the GammaTech was dropped from a somewhat less realistic (in terms of likely real-world falls) one foot.
The tree, which is usually 20 to 25 m (70 ft) in height and anything between 50 and 60 years old, is then shipped free-of-charge across the North Sea to Immingham by DFDS Tor Line.
Generalised subsidies are being replaced with carefully directed ones: for instance, some 1.5m of the poorest families can get a free tortilla ration by swiping cards through an electronic reader at their local tortilleria, where previously the height of technology was the gas-powered tortilla-squashing machine.