Watches and timepieces have been used as examples of complicated technology in philosophical discussions throughout history.

Such projects tend to require more complicated technology, as well as longer sales cycles.

The adoption of air bags by automobile manufacturers has created a complicated technology and policy problem for safety experts.

This is a very simplified response to an entirely complicated technology of "detergence".

For more than a century, the college educated have been at the top of the earnings pyramid, the masters of each new, complicated technology.

Analysts said these cuts could greatly hamper the ability of some agencies to evaluate and use complicated new technologies.

"Average business travelers now travel with much more complicated technology than they themselves can use," he said.

Increasingly, needlessly complicated technology infuriated him: "I just wanted to use my phone to call people.

"It's not a complicated technology, didn't take that long to figure out."

But he said they would pay less for the new engines, which will require less complicated technology to reduce pollution than those now in use.