I'm glad I've stuck to my one-cup-of-coffee rule: I'm wearing ski bibs, a climbing harness (in case I need to be fished out of a crevasse) and a high-tech avalanche pack that can inflate with one tug, turning me into a human bouncy castle.

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Greenpeace ranks Apple in the middle of the pack of tech companies -- behind HP and Dell but ahead of Samsung, Sony and others -- in terms of its sustainability and environmental friendliness.

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We can't speak to the tech inside, but it does pack a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus, a 3.5 mm headset jack, typical USB charger, and run of the mill soft keys on the sides of the handset.

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As tech books go O'Reilly's leads the pack with a series of books that have reached cult status for programmers and webmasters.

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Folks wanting to set up a high-tech tracker of their own can pick up the "Loca Surveillance Pack, " code and blueprints for the whole shebang.

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Pack declined to get into specifics, but confirmed that high-tech surveillance equipment was used during the police standoff.

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This year for instance players will need to buy a new Portal starter pack for Swap Force as the mix and match characters require some new tech under the hood of the peripheral.

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