'No complicated gears to go wrong,' boasts the literature, conveniently and rather patronisingly omitting to mention that gears help you go up hills.
By the time he received his doctorate, from Stanford, in 2009, he had shifted gears, helping to create optogenetics, a powerful new discipline that enables scientists to use light to study the behavior of individual neurons.
The extra gears help boost fuel economy, particularly on the highway.
They say negative gearing helps keep renting affordable.
A "tall" overdrive sixth gear helps: if you keep the engine under 2,000 r.p.m. on the freeway, you'll get 40 m.p.g. or better.
Mainsail's gear helps deliver phone calls, data and video on the same high-speed connection, a process that lowers costs for providers of telecommunications services.
But the right gear helps minimize the frustration and bump up the other two.
Lightera makes optical switches and network management products and Omnia's gear helps local phone companies merge different types of voice and data traffic on the network.
While fast and reliable internet starts with having a good provider, owning the right gear helps to support it.
Runners Gracie's Gear helps you fight flab and cancer at the same time, with their Power Pouch line of sports bras (see picture above).
