"The same tech we use in a Formula One race to find Castrol logos rushing past at 200mph we can use to find DKNY baseball caps on backwards in young men the police are looking for to help them with their inquiries", said OmniPerception's chief executive David McIntosh.
This is a paradox of modern tech: we are faced with increasingly huge tech giants like Apple and Google that provide most of our hardware and a huge chunk of the online infrastructure that we rely upon.
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And when it happens, we'll stop developing tech and we'll just focus on content.
We also showcased the latest in portable tech as we brought you a brilliant Fire Department iPhone app that stands to save lives, and we rounded up our five favorite phone-charging green gadgets.
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In high tech, we've see the law of unintended consequences at work for years.
One of the tech leaders we have seen re-emerge over the last few months is Amazon (AMZN), along with Apple (AAPL).
Like most of the tech media we're understandably skeptical of any attempt to relaunch the flagging social service, but after getting a peak at the redesign we've gotta say we're rooting for it.
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Now consider the myriad digital tech options we have at our fingertips: geofencing, social integration, digital coupons, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, near field communication, GPS, location-based applications, real-time bidding and the Internet of all things.
Thanks to the convergence of mobile devices, big data and new innovations in retail tech, we can see commerce transform before our very eyes: retailing becomes e-tailing, trying on becomes testing and expansion becomes buying a new domain name.
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Images are bright and colorful despite dim and gloomy lighting, and while we can't say for sure whether that's thanks to the larger sensor or the integrated TrueColor tech, we can say the difference is noticeable compared to the competition.
Based on some of the tech demos we've seen and earlier rumors, Intel's plans could include using facial recognition to personalize the experience for (and target advertising towards) different viewers, and offering smaller, cheaper bundles of channels than traditional providers.
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So we invested in high-tech manufacturing and we invested in clean energy.
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He said if we succeed in having high-tech then almost automatically we will be also knowledgeable in mid-tech and, of course, low-tech too.
We so often get caught up with narrow tech rivalries, we forget to look at the wider market.
So some of the sectors where we have a huge competitive advantage in high-tech areas, we're going to be able to send more of those products to markets overseas.
Rather, we found that the tech worked best when we placed the Vu on top of a sticker and left it in place.
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We need to accept that this brave new connected and tech savvy world we live in has different rules and different limitations to the one we were born into and grew up in.
We're very proud of some of our high-tech industries and we think that we make some of the best products in the world, and we want to sell them to a growing Indian market.
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We can always count on iFixit to get down and dirty with its spudger and the latest tablet tech, and we're not going home empty handed today.
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We can wear trackers to count our steps or measure our weight, and we can use tech to make a picture of where we've been.
Playing TF2 is actually quite different from the various tech demos that we've seen from Oculus.
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And then there's high-tech, which we consider to be computer-related, sort of somebody hacking into a computer.
The phone has come along way, but we tech journalists and bloggers are still trying to predict the future.
In addition to weakness in previously leading tech stocks, we are seeing several other charts weaken considerably around the market.
TechCrunch is always the first to bring us the newest in gadgetry and tech, and we love them for it.
But as economists enthuse over the tech surge, we need to note the limitations of information jobs even in the Valley.
After playing games like Grand Theft Auto III and the Tegra 3-enhanced Shadowgun, I'm convinced we tech enthusiasts live in an exciting time.
The high tech manufacturing jobs we are creating in the U.S. are ramping up an industrial base that is critical to our economy and national defense.
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One of the things I do find is that those who make tech often think that we schmoes out here want to be able to use tech in the same way that they do.
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