| Some time back I was asked about steps being taken to counter low-tech improvised explosive devices in Iraq. |
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| The glass factory produces a wide range of products with a low-tech and traditional technology based on well-developed labour skills. |
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| You can't help noticing that it's the low-tech weapons that are really horrible. |
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| These low-tech ways of attacking have the advantage that they do not leave a return address in the way that launching a missile would do. |
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| The bombings were carried out by suicide attackers, and show the power of even low-tech terrorist attacks. |
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| But can low-tech subsistence agriculture improve people's quality of life better than the hated multinationals? |
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| It was a low-tech approach that delivered benefits on the bike by developing broad-based strength off it. |
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| The company's determinedly low-tech adverts featuring real staff dancing to cheesy music have almost achieved cult status. |
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| Aviation high-tech and low-tech systems might play an important role in small wars. |
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| The biggest need of the community is low-tech equipment, such as hand-operated sewing machines and sturdy bicycles. |
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| My strip is a low-tech, one-man operation, and I like it that way. |
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| The airplanes are nearly identical and almost naive in their low-tech approach to flight, but are great fliers. |
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| He's learned to combine the high-tech with the unapologetically low-tech in his cottage industry. |
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| There are low-tech collection tools such as a cotton swab, and more sophisticated detection tools, including a handheld ultraviolet light unit. |
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| The low-tech way to protect against ice is to float a ball to keep an air hole open, letting noxious gases escape. |
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| These sculptures incorporate modified ready-mades and use low-tech equipment to create an atmosphere filled with tension, danger and amusements. |
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| His timely bet on fiber optics in 1992 helped a low-tech cable and tiremaker build a leading-edge telecom components business. |
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| Pearce also examines the low-tech solutions, from rice terracing to rainwater harvesting, that have sustained communities for hundreds of years. |
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| Bed nets are a low-tech method of protection from mosquitoes, but very few families have them. |
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| In contrast to the high-tech computer programs used to identify the problem, the plans to address it are low-tech and community-focused. |
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| Adopting modern technologies and better management practices, including using simple low-tech systems, is the answer. |
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| Introducing even relatively low-tech improvements among growers has a significant impact. |
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| As a result, the mine has involved a minimal investment, with low overhead and low-tech operations, i.e. using wheel barrels. |
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| By employing low-tech systems and using local materials that are durable, homes are easy to maintain and most repairs can be done by owners. |
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| If I had the cash, I would not buy the low-tech Vette when I could buy a more advanced car at or near the price point. |
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| For those who want to produce their own pure drinking water, passive-solar distillation is an inexpensive, low-tech option. |
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| Why use a glass thermal protection system, rather than a low-tech ablative shield? |
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| To this I can add little but an amen, and my wish that all forms of low-tech games, not just pen and paper ones, will grow and spread. |
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| Though the presentation was resolutely low-tech, the blocking was complicated and well rehearsed. |
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| In this country, the first announcements of his death appeared in the low-tech, large-print format of Teletext. |
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| Until recently, commercial espionage cases have been low-tech. |
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| Guarantee each mother continuing personal care by a midwife she knows, whether she chooses to have her baby at home, in a low-tech hospital or at a distant unit. |
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| Vivid colors, mass-produced clip art and the low-tech animations emphasize cheap, throwaway culture that Americans are nurtured on. |
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| It would contain an isolated and self-determining community where the inhabitants will grow up from an early age in a very low-tech environment. |
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| They can locate and track potential suspects through a variety of high-tech and low-tech means. |
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| Ultimately, it was a low-tech solution in a medical environment that is growing ever more expensive and sophisticated. |
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| Back in the early 1980s, when on a college program in India, I studied a low-tech irrigation project in drought-prone Maharashtra. |
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| Ubiquitous technologies for encryption, passive measures like camouflage, and low-tech countermeasures will see to that. |
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| The limitations of this ultimately low-tech, handcrafted sophistication are apparent, though. |
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| The data net is so low-tech that it has to overnight mug shots of terrorists to far-flung offices. |
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| Davenport's purposefully low-tech sculptures maintain a good balance of homespun craftsmanship and conceptual artistry. |
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| The EU also noted that many measures for sustainable development are low-tech, require little additional finance and resources and represent win-win scenarios. |
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| It really is a very, if you like, low-tech operation. |
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| In spite of these advantages, industry members tend to deride TLC as a low-tech, scientifically inferior method. |
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| More recent estimates are much more accurate, although there are still outstanding issues of whether low-tech production facilities in Mexico such as shade houses are classified as greenhouses. |
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| And while our heads are in these lofty policy clouds, is it possible that the largest threats we face are old-fashioned, low-tech, but assiduously organized attacks, such as those perpetrated on Mumbai last year. |
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| The Canada that was content to sell its natural resources and low-tech products to the rest of the world can no longer assume that it will remain prosperous in the 21st century. |
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| Of course a hand loom is a machine, it's just more low-tech. |
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| Mining is not a low-tech, low skill occupation. |
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| Perhaps because the marathon bombs were low-tech and homemade. |
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| Yet, thankfully, for all the hype, it's still a low-tech performance with poor dancing, ad-lib singing and plenty of knee-sliding across the stage. |
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| The result, which airs on BBC4 next week, is a charmingly homespun, low-tech, very British vision of space travel. |
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| A network of leading businesses in the field will be established in order to exchange their experiences in the development and trade of low-tech products. |
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| For low-tech companies with strong financials, good growth potential, and a well-thought-out exit strategy, the right investor may well be out there somewhere. |
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| Significantly, many of the methods he devised for seemingly intractable problems are affordable, practical and often low-tech solutions that his clients are able to readily implement. |
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| Gone are the days when all you needed was a winning smile, helpfulness and the ability to operate a low-tech till to satisfy customer needs. |
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| Researchers have tested a low-tech solution to the problem of poaching by double-crested cormorants, often called water turkeys. |
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| The question is, does the low-tech, minimalist derringer deserve consideration as a modern concealed carry gun? |
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| Switch to monaural format, and you can record twice as much, useful when you want to record speeches and other low-tech sound. |
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| Because most breaches have garden-variety, low-tech origins, the most effective solutions are often also low-tech: Like instilling in employees a sense of care and respect for the personal information entrusted to them. |
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| These early woodturners used a low-tech pole lathe and strap to hand turn objects such as furniture legs, rolling pins and stair banisters. |
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| The economic activity is a sign that, locally, the game of the river has changed and its power has been reduced. Here the riverbank is protected by low-tech means: heavy sandbags. |
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| Dumpster diving continues to be a common practice and this low-tech practice frequently yields big rewards for those who go looking for discarded personal information. |
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| Such terms gloss over the fact that, just like the pipes that carry water, the tubes that carry bits are reliant on old-fashioned, low-tech spadework, human contact and the geographical reality in which all that exists. |
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| Designed in a genuinely low-tech style which will bring back fond memories of the first generation of video games, this animation stresses the omnipresent avant-gardism of technology and the entertainment industry today. |
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| And the U.S. too is bogged down in a similar low-grade and low-tech dance. |
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| A pod of ferals was moving towards the exit, a half-dozen soap-shy, low-tech, bush-dwelling hippies. |
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| Google, known for its cutting-edge Internet software, may be setting its sights on the low-tech radio market. |
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| Lightweight, portable, and decidedly low-tech, these two cameras go where more expensive ones can't, encouraging spontaneous, off-the-cuff photography. |
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| From spicy arrestees on COPS to Tom Cruise, the low-tech binge of singled-out talking heads and show-offs overwhelms, producing simultaneous exhilaration and unease. |
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| The simple tool above provides a low-tech bodge to help people locate missing friends and family in Christchurch following today's terrible earthquake. |
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| That is, as an economy deindustrializes, income inequality may increase as the wages paid to manufacturing workers in low-tech, pollution-intensive industries fall. |
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| His goal was to design a solar engine so low-tech that it could be built and maintained anywhere, inexpensively, without complex tools and skills. |
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| In fact, there is everything on Craigslist, the low-tech Internet site that is outdrawing, outperforming, and outshining its high-tech counterparts. |
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