Photo: Archangeli So I love gleaming, high-end, technologically-advanced workout equipment as much as anyone. (And excuse me, Precor people: somehow you ... otherwise do on the big-ass machines at the gym. Sometimes this works fine; other times, I find the low-tech version to be either more cumbersome or less fun than the high-tech version. But every now and then, I've been thrilled to find a ...

... this morning, I had no internet. No intranet, even–I couldn’t load the high school home page at all. On another morning this might have sent me into a panic, but I already knew ... colleagues reader’s advisory questions via Twitter. But the more I think about it, the more I realize I still have a lot of low-tech tasks in my life–for better and for worse. On the annoying-but- ...

... increase its ground forces, if the Kabul government is going to have any hope of stabilizing the country. But almost as important is beefing up the country’s low-tech, often-overlooked air force. Anthony Cordesman, the ... cockpit and modern avionics). Another possible acquisition is the counterinsurgency aircraft, a high-performance, single-engine plane that can double as a ...

... easier solution is the one that should be used. “Numerous high-tech devices have been proposed to help ships cope ... piracy.” It’s also nice to see that the solutions are of the low harm type as well. Using arms or explosives might be a capable ... doubt the best route. § Technorati Tags: piracy,high seas solutions,compressed air and ropes, ...

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... engineer who is now an assistant professor at UC Irvine. She was chosen by Technology Review because of her unorthodox use of Shrinky Dinks, a children's craft material, as a fast, low-cost way to creating test molds for microfluidics, a type of chemical research. Typically, such molds require expensive engineering equipment that wasn't available when Khine arrived at the brand-new UC ...

... powerful entities like Baotou Steel Rare Earth Hi-Tech. The company, which describes itself as the "dragon's ... a government planner who works at Baotou's high-tech industrial park. He says that he has already proposed to a Bosch ... motors in the Inner Mongolian city. The wages there are unbeatably low, there are generous tax abatements, and land can be had for next to nothing, he argues. ...

... that racing along a coast at 20 knots at night in an area where fishermen still fish in low-tech boats with a helmsman who is probably exhausted by many days at sea in a high-speed motorboat might be dangerous? Well, if they didn't know it was dangerous the first time, they surely knew it was dangerous the second time. ...

... players have set shop at RTOs and ARTOs for issue of smart card based driving licenses. This high tech end product has its own benefits and provides a fool proof ... the driving schools in India continue to provide low grade training and promote corruption by assisting learners ... compromising road safety. Poor driving combined with low patience produces road rage, which is a daily occurrence ...

High-tech wheelchair trouble at Walt Disney World High-tech wheelchair causes Disney ruckus for South Florida ... Florida Sun-Sentinel North Miami Beach Mayor Myron Rosner, a paraplegic, has a fancy, high-tech wheelchair that allows him to elevate on two wheels. But two wheels are ... wheelchair's $30,000 price tag, low sales and the inability to get Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements for ...