The Zypad WR1100 is a 23 ounce, rugged, wireless computer operating with a Linux OS.
But Mr. FitzSimons argues they are more like the blower Bentleys of the time -- rugged racing machines, operated by young aristocrats, proud of their engineering and undisguised by styling.
The implementation of such an approach will require the use of accurate, well-validated, rugged assays that operate alongside well-developed risk relationships for different populations.
Some helicopters will eventually have to have floats so they can land on water, if they are operating along rugged shorelines where there is no safe place to land.
Similar to light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and lasers, a photodiode's main requirements are that it should be small, rugged, have a long operating life, be highly sensitive, possess a high response speed to the particular transmission rate, have an economical construction, and have low power consumption.
These gauges are rugged and simple to operate and cover a range of from 100 to 10-4 torr.
ORVs have been designed to operate in rugged, unpaved terrain, and ORVs can produce copious amounts of fugitive dust.
Land Rover offered several electrically powered "research vehicles" based on its rugged 110 Defender; with an operating range of only about 50 miles, these could be called "Range-Anxiety Rovers".
The only difference was their footwear: dress shoes (often pointy-toed) for the regime men in the city, sneakers or combat boots for the rebels operating in more rugged terrain.
American officials said that even as fighting in eastern Libya bogged down in a stalemate, guerrillas operating in the rugged Nafusah Mountains in the west were steadily gaining ground against Qaddafi forces and cutting off supplies to the capital.
