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Hard-core outdoors enthusiasts still prefer to rough it, but modern campers look for comfort first when they head for the hills. Wherever you're bound for this summer, look for high-tech tents and other slick gear to keep the rain away and bugs at bay. Here are some of the cool new tools to pack (and all are easily available online...
...High-Tech Referees Re "Technophobia" [June 26], your article on why high-tech solutions aren't being used to reduce referee errors in football: Football's world governing body-the Fédération Internationale de Football Association-shouldn't be so closed-minded about the effects of modern technology in assisting referees. Its argument that video consultation affects the speed and fluidity of the game may be valid for now. But it must allow for experimentation. Technology evolves. Maybe someday the technology will be improved so that it won't disrupt the game. What we fans want...
...global appetite for the produce of the Mediterranean region? Few events so eloquently capture the tussle between international commerce and the locals over the Mediterranean's resources as the annual summer hunt for bluefin tuna. Much of the Med's tuna is no longer caught by traditional means. High-tech "tuna ranches" began appearing in the Med in the late '90s and have proliferated over the past decade - fish farms consisting of circular floating cages about 50 m in diameter and 50 m deep, set up 2-3 km from shore. The ranches are most often controlled not by small...
Hard-core outdoors enthusiasts still prefer to rough it, but modern campers look for comfort first when they head for the hills. Wherever you're bound for this summer, look for high-tech tents and other slick gear to keep the rain away and bugs at bay. Here are some of the cool new tools to pack (and all are easily available online...
...24/7 days, travelers stay plugged in at airports, hotel rooms and, alas, beaches. At least they're tethered to home and office with ever more stylish and functional digital designs. Aiming at the growing army of wired road warriors, even upscale travel-gear makers like Tumi are crafting trendy tech gear. For those who want a Web fix everywhere they go, here are some of the season's most useful travel tools...