The following day, a group of CIFFI members toured the Ithaca campus to see the university's high-tech fiber science labs and apparel design studios.
Workers operating from a walkway hung the length of the nave from the basilica's outer roof have already filled cracks in the unseen side of the vaulted ceiling with special nonsaline mortar and applied high-tech fiber adhesive strips across the fissures to prevent them from widening.
They then worked to construct their design from material that Shearn had previously spent weeks putting together -- attaching thousands of metallic strips to a grid of high-tech fiber rope and bungee cords.
In the past three years, his district has spent $360,000 to connect all six schools with high-tech fiber-optic cables that increase the district's Internet capabilities and allow every office and classroom to be hooked up.
Like an especially geeky James Bond heavy, Winston uses methods both high-tech (fiber-optic video surveillance) and low (thugs with baseball bats) to get what he wants, which is to control the world's supply of information.
New center for development of high-tech fibers and fabrics opens headquarters, unveils two products ready for commercialization.
They look something like the lean legs of a long-distance runner (or "chicken wishbones," as Ricciotti calls them) and are made from high-tech fibers fashioned from metal and microsilica.
_______ sheathed his legs in NASA-worthy Capo bib shorts — woven from high-tech fibers that compress leg muscles to ______ fatigue — he pulled on a pair of winter cycling tights lined with fleece from the waist to the thighs.
The rapid shift to high-tech fibers worries cotton growers.
Able to sail at three times the velocity of the wind with the aid of seven-story high aircraft wings, their modern high tech carbon fiber catamarans will criss-cross the racecourse at speeds in excess of 50mph, the only contact with the water a trio of scythe-like blades.
"We see lots of low-tech carbon fiber, and very few people have the expertise to make really high-tech carbon fiber".
