One of best-kept secrets in the investment newsletter game is The High-Tech Strategist, a monthly review by the Nashua, New Hampshire-based curmudgeon Fred Hickey.

FORBES: The Coming Tablet Glut

The Manchester, UK-based game is a high-tech version of hide and seek where players can interact online and on the street and work together to search for an elusive "Uncle Roy".

ENGADGET: Hunting for Uncle Roy

Over the past four years the government has introduced a series of tough anti-poaching measures, sending soldiers armed with the latest high-tech equipment to back up rangers in game reserves and imposing heavy sentences on poachers when caught.

ECONOMIST: Rhinos at risk

Thus armed, day traders are adding a high-tech twist to the well-worn momentum game that exchange-floor traders have played for decades: Buy when markets are rising and sell when they turn south.

FORBES: What Bear Market?

The CEC recently gave itself permission to pursue new regulations for a wide range of high-tech consumer products and IT equipment, including computers, displays, game consoles, imaging equipment, servers and set-top boxes.

FORBES: California Regulators, It's Time to Open the Golden State for Business Once Again

By concentrating on innovating through game play, and ignoring its competitors' most high-tech features--super-powered processors, support for high-definition televisions and DVD formats--Nintendo has not only been able to keep its costs down, but it's hit upon the single thing that sets apart an entertainment device most: It's fun.

FORBES: Nintendo's Wii Is A Revolution

There are 13 NFL games on Christmas Eve, and five juicy season-opening NBA contests on Christmas Day, and at some point, you're going to be following a game on your TV, or your phone, or your high-tech germ tablet, and a disapproving person is going to scold you and tell you to shut that thing off and show some respect.

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Or maybe, from the quasi-high-tech vending machines that have become ubiquitous in airport terminals, a cellphone charger or video game.

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