The rugged hand-held industry is relatively tiny compared with the smartphone market.
They are firmly contoured and monumentally composed in a rugged hand, with an astringent palette of black, yellow, a startling red-orange, and off-kilter pastels.
Brokeback Mountain placed one rugged hand firmly on the Oscar for best film last night after taking the top prize at the Producers Guild of America awards.
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.
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.
An internal investigation conducted by the U.S. Forest Service concluded that an aerial assault in the early-morning hours of Aug. 27, 2009, would have been useless because the terrain was so steep and rugged that hand crews would not have been able to access the area to finish the job.
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.
