state of the art

The skatepark - which at the time was considered state of the art - opened in May 1978 and featured bowls, a slalom run and a half-pipe, all with names like Jaws, Torpedo and Bazooka.

Beautiful as it is, it's hard to imagine that this elderly machine was ever state of the art.

But the recordings he made were not state of the art, even in their own time.

It's state of the art technology for less than the price of a tank of fuel.

The Home Office said it had launched new specialist police and enforcement plans, including state of the art surveillance technology to disrupt criminal smuggling gangs in northern France.