The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is the single most important legal tool that the world has to try to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.
Britain pioneered the use of DNA as a crime-fighting tool, introducing the world's first national database in 1985.
The Convention is our tool to build a world that thrives on diversity.
The bottom line is that human beings have brains capable of counting to high numbers and manipulating them, so we use mathematics as a useful tool to describe the world around us.
Little over 125 years ago small business owners around the world were debating the merits of a new technology that was heralded as a revolutionary tool that would change the business world forever.
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The vessel could have been a superb defense tool for the kind of world we face today.
It is a record that now stretches back over 40 years - an invaluable tool for studying our changing world.
The Chief Executive of iFixit will take his tool kit anywhere in the world to get his hands on an Apple product first so that he can tear it apart and tell the rest of us how to fix it.
Did he have a full tool kit to evolve into the world's most caring, contended man?
The "mute" button of every TV remote control in the world is another good tool for keeping noisy and insulting commercials at bay.
After all, Legos are THE official creative building block tool of, well, the world, having developed and spurred the minds of young builders and makers everywhere since before the X-Files.
More competent visitors to the site can build a world from scratch using the tool's own programming language known as metamarkup.
For World Press Freedom Day celebrations around the world were publicized through a crowdsourcing tool incorporating interactive mapping.
But I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world.
The tool works amazingly well in the idealized Zuckerbergian world where all Facebook members are real people who complete their profiles honestly and update them frequently.
By this I mean our habit to arrange the world according to the primary physical tool we have at our disposal throughout the day: our bodies.
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So it was appropriate that we spent a lot of time talking about Twitter, given how it's become perhaps the fastest tool for people to share news with the world.
Of course games can offer training in academic skills, but we often forget that they are simultaneously teaching our kids particular lessons about how to mediate their experience in the world with a specific kind of tool.
To provide air monitoring capabilities to third world citizens, CSIRO has developed a tool that measures fine particulate levels.
In this fragmented world, unquestionably the most powerful marketing tool is recommendations from trusted sources, a channel over which we have less control.
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This handy tool loads a page from four locations around the world and provides both average load times and a wealth of detail on how long each page element takes to load.
The tablet phenomenon in the world today is bigger than the size of its memory chip, more awe-inspiring than the speed of its processor it is a wonder of our time, and in an ever more connected and computerized world, it may be the perfect tool for the industrious, creative, modern human.
Lund, 38, oversees Lego Mindstorms, the world's most popular line of robot tool kits.
The internet is the most powerful tool we have for creating a more open and connected world.
T-shirts advertising a new and rather obscure scientific-networking tool of dubious economic value: it was called the world wide web.
But then what I realized is if we can transform that into something that's positive that can actually effectively change the world, that can be a really valuable tool.
Whether you're an international traveler or you just want the convenience of PlugBug in your part of the world, PlugBug World is ready to add one more handy tool to your MacBook travel pack.
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While the technology is still in the very early stages, 3D printing is nearing becoming a real world application. 3D printing is a tool that can be used to validate a design, ensure pieces fit together properly and even make a product mock-up for marketing.
Yunus says too many companies use CSR as a public relations tool, rather than getting serious about doing good in the world.
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But Mr Page added that any tool that claims to offer an insight into the often complex world of consumer behaviour will be welcomed by businesses.
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