The rugged hand-held industry is relatively tiny compared with the smartphone market.
Because of the specialized nature of much of the equipment, the nation's 50,000 public safety agencies pay $2,500 to $5,000 a unit for the current generation of rugged, hand-held radios that allow different departments to talk to each other.
"The lifestyle change will cost me a lot," he said of his new job, extending his rugged hands to explain.
Deer, bears or leftwing radicals, it really doesn't matter so long as there's a warm gun in his rugged hands.
Amassed by the man whose name represents the sort of jewelry and accessories you buy when you want to show the world you have lots of money and no stylistic courage, it is interesting that his personal tastes run towards these rugged, hand-hewn, tribal objects.
The rugged camera, hand-built in Solms, Germany, is still a pro's tool.
There, on the back, were two almost-conjoined mountains, like a pair of rugged Yangtze boatman hands about to clap, forming the gate to the Qutang Gorge.
In 2007, Adler launched the Will Leather Goods label, a line of sturdy, rugged but luxe hand-crafted leather bags and small accessories for men and women that has found favor across the globe at retailers including Ron Herman, American Rag, Nordstrom and the Isetan department store chain in Japan.
At this weekend-long festival in the grand surroundings of the Hawarden estate in Flintshire, even the limpest-wristed keyboard slave can turn their hand to rugged activities like natural navigation, campfire butchery, and axe throwing.
