Also, areas of this market are increasingly being fueled by the rapid obsolescence of high-technology gear.
With billions being spent on clean rooms filled with high-technology gear, China has become the world's most promising new market for semiconductor manufacturing equipment and materials.
When they were not working with their high-technology gear today, the Discovery astronauts took time out to play with their toys.
Spending on broadband and other high-technology gear helped lead a transformation of the economy, pushing the overall information technology sector to about 13percentt of economic activity and making South Korea much less dependent on heavy industry.
They say there are better uses for scarce budget dollars than high-technology gear, and point out that previous waves of enthusiasm for computerizing classrooms have come and gone, with little to show for it.
While dive gear consists of high technology like trimix gases and the underwater camera, archaeology gear consists of low technology, like the bucket and shovel.
Nike said this week that it was branching out from athletic shoes and clothing by forming a division for high-technology sports gear that will introduce five gadgets for athletes this year.
For H.P. and others in high technology, many traditional categories no longer fit the realities of how people use their gear.
The company, which exports electronic gear, said the need for staff reductions stemmed from the slump in high technology and from the company's expected loss this year of $1.2 billion.
Laboratories gleam with the latest high technology.
Nuclear power is a complex, high technology.
