Few technological advances have been as enduring.
"We traveled the way our people traveled for centuries," Mr. Treuer said of one canoe journey, "with a few technological advances like space-age Gortex".
Buying a home is the biggest investment that most people will make in their lifetimes, yet, to date, there have been few technological advances to expedite the process and make it more secure for buyers, lenders and homeowners alike.
Hiding from big data The caveman in space ReprintsRun-of-the-mill digital quartz watches, too, have seen few real technological advances.
Over the last few years, technological advances in both remote communication and ski equipment have made these kinds of trips safer and easier.
In the past few years, technological advances have made it possible for a growing range of lenders to supply money 24/7 to customers quickly, without any need for human contact – no phone calls, no demands for utility bills or proof of address; some organisations allow customers to make a request simply by texting over the amount they want and the number of days they want it for.
From the inception of thermionic electron sources, which, due to simplicity of fabrication, remain central to almost all X-ray applications, there have been few fundamental technological advances.
The notion of replicating the unique fracture resistance of natural composites in synthetic materials has generated much interest but has yielded few real technological advances.
Moreover, in the next few years, technological advances in mobile CT may increase the time savings and avoid haemodynamic instability due to patient transport, thus transforming CTA into a bedside ancillary test [34].
In the past few decades, technological advances have produced a flood of genetic data, computing power has exploded, and scientists have developed new mathematical algorithms for building phylogenies or evolutionary trees.
Over the last few decades, technological advances include total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy [3], [4], confocal laser scanning microscopy [5], [6], two-photon imaging [7], single molecule fluorescence [8], Förster energy transfer imaging [9], fluorescence lifetime imaging [10].
