Mr. Browne said the police aimed to get the T-Ray technology in a device small enough to carry on an officer's gun belt.
Here's hoping that the affiliated Tech Policy Summit--with some participants' eyes cast nervously toward Washington--helps ensure policymakers don't devour the technology sector's promise with ill-conceived intervention (your Wayne will be a panelist there).
But a fast-growing New York City company called T-Ink is pushing the technology into new realms, especially toys.
So, if you have a piece of technology, or just a consumer electronic--I mean, we've talked about a lot of things that aren't necessarily technology-oriented that you've purchased and you want to get rid of.
Mr. Lodato sent a radio-controlled toy helicopter, T-shirts and sunglasses to John Osley, a 40-year-old technology marketing executive with small children.
One not-so-ideological hang-up: The technology and market for such an industry didn't and still doesn't exist for commercially profitable levels of production.
Cellular providers have spent billions upgrading their networks to provide high-speed data services, but still don't have the technology available to offer high-quality live TV.
Of course, it would be silly to assume that the minds at Microsoft and Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) aren't hammering out a technology to blow by FireWire.
"New York is really the up-and-coming place because people who don't have traditional technology backgrounds are starting companies in completely different sectors and utilizing technology, " he said.
"Small banks can't make the information-technology investments needed in the Internet Age, " says Caparusso.
As far as we can tell it doesn't have any TiVo-like technology for divining your tastes, though it does allow an extensive list of preferences and apparently has a range of search and display functions to help you keep track of all that's in there (which with a 400GB drive could be up to 67 hours even at the highest quality).
The Wii's controllers, though they helped introduce motion-sensing technology to many gamers, weren't as well-suited as rivals' for some rapid game play.
Google's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) search technology doesn't like the pages and apparently slammed the door on BMW, dropping its page rank to 0.
Cornell attributes Denver's stability to its main industries--energy and technology--that he says aren't likely to decline simultaneously.
Arbitron said that in that time it will extend the use of the paper-and-pencil diary system, a technology that hasn't changed since 1965.
Instant messaging, that rat-a-tat chat technology that is catching up toe-mail in popularity, still hasn't overcome a critical hurdle that e-mail cleared years ago: utter incompatibility among rival brands.
Most scientists still don't have access to DNA-decoding technology.
Since Google can't be the only multibillion-dollar technology company having all the home energy monitoring fun, Microsoft's jumping in with "Hohm" -- like a portmanteau of "Home" and "Ohm, " get it?
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Like other proofs-of-concept with Fujitsu's PalmSecure technology, you don't actually have to lay your hand on the sensor to make it work -- hovering above it will work just fine.
Critically, First Solar executive vice-president T K Kallenbach insists the company will not have to share its cutting-edge PV technology with domestic competitors, as many Western renewables players seeking to enter the vast Chinese market have been forced to do .
First, the A500: this guy sports a 16-inch, 16:9 format display (1366 x 768), a TV-tuner for both analog and digital DVB-T programming, Harman Kardon speakers and HDMI ports with REGZA LINK technology.
Aside from lacking WiFi, the MG-35 mimics its more feature-packed sibling just about to a T, but does tout Ximeta NDAS technology.
ENGADGET: MediaGate finally launches MG-350HD, MG-35, and MG-25P in the US
Now combined with technology, T-shirts can be a true canvas to create interactive ideas.
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And really, you know, I don't think any bookseller is anti-technology.
Fuel-saving technology like hybrid power and turbo-charging, they say, isn't enough to do the trick.
Vizio says this isn't technically an IPS display, though the panel does make use of some other wide-angle viewing technology (Vizio wouldn't say which one).
ENGADGET: Vizio Tablet PC hands-on (update: now with video) Hands-on
Diversified companies don't fully benefit when particular sub-sectors of technology are doing well.
While Shareholder.com's Gruner doesn't think that the regulation and technology-pushed growth of the late 1990s will return with the new SEC proposals, it's clear that the companies set on the business of disclosure will have plenty of new information to disperse and package to a data-hungry and concerned investing community.
Car buyers need to beware: Good performance, sleek design and cutting-edge technology don't always add up to good quality.
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