Sheds, for instance, have become hi-tech home cinemas or multi-MacBook desktop creativity centres, rather than ramshackle hideaway garden retreats for ageing hobbyists.
Sumi Das looks at how even the lighting in the bay area has become hi-tech with a shining example of Bay Bridge.
It became Hi-P International, a contract electronics manufacturer with 25 plants as far-flung as China and Mexico and more than 15,000 employees.
When the digital recorder was invented, I started carrying it and recording sound, because I'm a musician and I do audio recordings and music, and when video cameras became hi-definition and small, I started shooting video while i was recording sound.
When somebody becomes HI at a later age and has been able to develop normal literacy skills, it can be useful to ask a speech-to-text interpreter to assist the consultation.
As cars become more hi-tech they become more vulnerable to hacking.
Warfare has become asymmetric; hi-tech states fight not each other, but shadowy insurgents, terrorists and freedom fighters.
Unemployed at first, then eventually answering an ad in the Guardian to become a hi-fi journalist.
I felt not mellow but aggressive — I wanted to jump into the television, which had become miraculously hi-def.
It now doesn't look as though that will be the case – cue raised voices and a juggling of handsets at Games-time in a building that is supposed to become a hi-tech hub following the Olympics.
It is curious that, as we become increasingly hi-tech and ever more in thrall to Big Pharma in our handling of illness, we're also learning to access and exploit the traditional ways.
