We are close to the realization of the smart home and the smart office, when we will never again have to walk into a dark room or a cold building.
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Until quite recently, every smart office block in Sao Paulo used to employ an "ascensorista" - a person whose sole job was to ride up and down in the lifts all day, pushing buttons that the occupants could easily have pressed for themselves.
In a smart downtown office in the southern Indian city of Bangalore dozens of Indian graduates work for ICICI OneSource.
Technology provides a host of smart tools to help your office reduce paper waste.
Why do you think President Barack Obama still uses his BlackBerry smart phone over his iphone while in office and only uses his iphone and ipad for personal use?
Saskia Sassen, co-chair on the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and a leading expert on smart cities, draws parallels with the office buildings of the sixties, which she describes as "low-ceiling places now standing sad and empty as advanced technologies render them useless".
As much as federal officials would like to do more, it may well be that dramatically improving lousy schools is simply beyond the purview of folks sitting in DC office buildings, no matter how smart and well-intentioned.
Pitt has found a way to do smart movies that also do well at the box office.
Even in office towers not specifically designed to be smart, a critical mass of tech tenants sometimes enables them to negotiate for their special needs.
The idea, company reps say, is that it could act as a secondary display in the office -- one that's smart enough to update apps all by itself.
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His company, Smart Furniture, takes orders over the Internet for semicustomized office and home furniture.
But as networks have proliferated rapidly, both at home and in the office, and more and more people use smart phones and other connected devices the number of available addresses has plummeted rapidly.
Those bags and briefcases that cross the office threshold each morning likely carry employee-owned smart phones, tablets and laptops.
Funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, project leaders envision "smart underwear" that measures a soldier's sweat for warning signs and automatically trigger an appropriate medical dosage.
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In the weeks that follow, your new manager five years your senior, smart, upwardly mobile and a killer golfer becomes a close ally in the office.
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The service is easy to use and fun and Min.us is upgrading its service so it can be used on a wide variety of operating systems, devices such as smart phones, and file types including pictures, videos, sound, and office documents.
Within the clubby world of toy manufacturers, which stretches from the office blocks of east Tsim Sha Tsui in Hong Kong to the factories over the border, Smart Union was seen as one of the winners, a trusted manufacturer with none of the quality problems that came to terrify the buyers of Chinese products.
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