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Highway Traffic Safety Administration has found that child safety restraints were critically misused in more than 70% of the studied cases. The high-tech TattleTale Smart Car Seat ($170 to $230; smartchild seat.com employs sensors to check whether the seat is installed correctly and provides verbal confirmation ("Buckle fastened, vehicle belt tight") when it is. If your little Houdini likes to unfasten a restraint now and again, you might hear, "Warning: child climbing out." The seat's batteries run for up to four years, but don't worry about remembering to change them. When they run low, the TattleTale will...
...manufacturing in America; most others have fled to China, Indonesia and Vietnam. Roughly 25% of New Balance shoes are assembled at five factories in New England and one in California owned by a foreign supplier. Over the past two years Davis has spent $14 million to upgrade a high-tech shoe plant down the road from his Boston office, and in 2001 he expanded his distribution center in the old mill town of Lawrence, Mass. Davis figures he can overcome the higher labor costs in the U.S. and turn his plants into strategic assets--shipping directly to retailers from...
...same time, New Balance has proved that it's possible to manufacture in the U.S. and compete. The company's plant in Brighton, Mass., for instance, features robotics and a high-tech molding process that can produce an outsole in 12 seconds--allowing New Balance to make a sneaker from scratch and fill orders rapidly as they come in. Another advantage Davis sees: better relationships with retailers. New Balance's domestic factories play a key role in filling special orders for hard-to-find sizes and widths and give the company more flexibility to help out independent retailers--a lucrative...
...TECH: The first hybrid SUV; a safer kid's seat; stability control...
...those sprays and lasers and high-tech microscopes, it turns out, are expensive. "DNA analysis is used every six seconds on CSI," says Robert J. Castelli, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who was a police officer for 21 years. "To analyze properly a sample of DNA can cost as much as $10,000. You're not going to be using DNA analysis in every burglary." So prosecutors are now spending a lot of time trying to explain to juries that DNA evidence isn't always essential. Joshua Marquis, a pro-death-penalty district attorney in Oregon...