Possible Clues:

• Hard work ethic in advanced technology
• Difficulty acquiring energy using such advanced means
• Essentially, 'with-it' echoes 'state-of-the-art'
• Cutting-edge music, selling well with City hipsters at first
• Snag involving base using the latest science?
• Advanced problem about end of universe
• Sophisticated, as a gadget
• Like the newest gadgetry, informally
• White chairs partially with designs using steel, glass and plastic, say
• Like cutting-edge gadgets