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The world is dotted with futuristic, high-tech cities trying to attract the biggest international companies.

There's a high-tech underground trash disposal system.

A finding that was a bit surprising is that to consumers, the inner parts of high-tech devices do apparently matter.

A high-tech test that can tell when a person is not telling the truth sounds too good to be true.

Consumers are less concerned about safety in high-tech products than categories like fresh and processed food.

For the high-tech sector, there are a few other interesting findings.

Many robots are equipped with high-tech sensors and complex learning algorithms to avoid injuring humans as they work side by side.

Some 55% of consumers, according to the report, said they are "more concerned about where high-tech components come from than where the product was assembled.

Underwriters Laboratories issued a report last week that found 48% of consumers "feel high-tech manufacturers bring new products to market faster than people need them.

Last month, Howard Schmidt, the nation's cyber-czar, offered the federal government a proposal to make the Web a safer place—a "voluntary trusted identity" system that would be the high-tech equivalent of a physical key, a fingerprint and a photo ID card,