What gear, used to sustain life, is so revolutionary, innovative or simply well designed that it deserves to be mentioned, regardless of the price?
Technology is really developed to destroy life or control it..
The technology used in Missile Guidance using Thermographic technology such as ASRAAM had essentially unlimited funds. i.e Transputers and long wave IR focal plane array bolometers for the Military industrial Complex. My Postgraduate project work was using Transputer Occam process oriented programming.
When I was working on developing software algorithms for Dynamic Medical Thermographic Imaging.
i.e. such as
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8509657there was virtually no funding, well actually zero funding, Even spending $30 on some 3rd party software was deemed extravagant..
I do like my gadget toys but I don't rely on them for my life support.
Perhaps I should have spent more time on pointless sprites for the Lemmings like Davy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jones_(video_game_developer)
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