The state courts are again being the pioneers in using new technology to improve transparency and access to the judicial branch of government.

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This is our second annual listing of technology pioneers under the age of 30.

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Steve Mann, a professor at the University of Toronto and one of the pioneers of heads-up display technology, has been wearing his own version of Google Glass for more than three decades.

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This is a contraption for blocking radio waves which is named after one of the 19th-century pioneers of electrical technology.

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Drunk with Hubris On the other side of the great technology canyon, you'll find pioneers like Amazon.

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To connect virtually anywhere, ThinkPad Helix comes with optional LTE high speed wireless and also pioneers the emerging Near Field Communications (NFC) technology that allows devices to share data seamlessly by simply tapping to pair them.

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Now these pioneers aim to profit from the latest iteration of a pervasive technology.

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The brain trusts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard and more than a dozen other universities have become pioneers of renewable energy and environmental remediation.

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They are fascinated by Western music technology, not because it originates in the West, but because they believe they are pioneers of mankind.

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Like e-book pioneers in America, they point to the trend away from paper-based products as the technology for downloading and displaying text electronically gets cheaper, more convenient and easier on the eyes.

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