If you're healthy and trying to stay that way, the important tests are few and relatively low tech.
Solar thermal power is low tech, extremely low cost to manufacture, install and use, and requires very little to no maintenance at all.
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"It's very low tech and the basic requirements are that the police and local government and health meet from time to time in an organised way, " Prof Shepherd said.
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Solar thermal heat is low tech, easy to manufacture and install, low maintainance, the fuel is free, and the energy is easy and low cost to store until it is needed.
All ideas high and low tech are needed.
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Dr. Bluementhal developed an affordable, low tech screening method for cervical cancer that is likely to save tens of thousands of lives in third world countries over the next decade, and has the potential to save hundreds of thousands.
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So often people think it has to be a high-tech solution--a new laser or a new drug--to be powerful, and what we do in our work is use these very expensive, high-tech, state-of-the-art measures to prove how powerful low-tech and low-cost interventions can be.
It's a high-tech solution with low-tech hardware, but it just might work.
In a high tech world, the low-tech book seems to get a bad rap all too often.
Behind the high-tech curtain will be the low-tech trains including Mr. Schuiten's beloved Class 12.
Oddly, a problem that is high-tech in origin has strengthened a low-tech form of communication.
The lure, say some high-tech gun enthusiasts, is the low-tech challenge of shooting.
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.
"A high-tech world can no longer afford a low-tech electricity grid, " says Edison International Chairman John Bryson, who testified before the subcommittee Thursday.
"A high-tech world can no longer afford a low-tech electricity grid, " says Edison International (nyse: EIX - news - people ) Chairman John Bryson, who testified before the subcommittee Thursday.
The failure of the high-tech biometric voter-identification kits on voting day had, by and large, one distinctly low-tech cause: A lack of electricity at polling stations.
Multiple choice questions were also the subject of other low-tech, but imaginative cheating efforts.
The low-tech solution was discovered by specialist neurological physiotherapist Lorraine Clapham at Southampton General Hospital.
True, Chad uses little energy, but the country is largely reliant on low-tech subsistence farming.
Meanwhile, there are plenty of good low-tech stocks that a Buffett or a Tisch could appreciate.
Ervin is a firm believer in the low-tech "icy glare, " a shooting daggers-evil eye combo.
Competition from China drives low-tech firms out of the market, but forces others to upgrade.
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Now, the relatively low-tech industry of stitching clothes together is getting that same boost.
So M-Farm is a low-tech app, relying on text messaging as its principal means of communication.
Such acquisitions kept GKN going when steelmaking and the low-tech bits of its business declined.
Another idea is a low-tech effort to extract phosphorus by using crops which are then harvested.
ITT's electron side includes low-tech switches and high-tech radar-jamming systems and night vision gear for the military.
At the very least, small-scale and low-tech gemstone-mining could be a fall-back for the country's beleaguered herders.
It is not only excessive faith in technology that keeps many firms from making these low-tech investments.
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