It's no wonder that new applications for the Internet of Things are moving ahead fast when almost every new device we buy has a plug on the end of it or a wireless connection to the internet.

当我们购买的几乎每一款新设备的末端都有一个插头或与无线网络连接时，物联网的新应用程序快速发展就不足为奇了。

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People with no special tools other than a PC and a broadband internet connection can take part in complex scientific projects from the comfort of their own homes.

因此，仅有一台个人电脑与宽带网络的用户能够在自己家庭的舒适环境下加入复杂的科学项目，而这些人不拥有任何特别的工具。

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In other words, the sort of "here I am on the airplane, there's no Internet connection, I am reading a book thoroughly" reading.

换句话说，就是那种“我正在飞机上，这里没有互联网，我在全神贯注地看一本书”式的阅读。

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Or she confided in you that when she leaves work for the day, she goes home to a television-free home to spend time with a cup of coffee, her husband and absolutely no connection to the internet (it must be torturous to not understand technology).

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So the 24% of households in America that have no internet connection are missing out on many things, not least information on products and prices.

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There was no Internet connection, which made my Belkin N300 USB WiFi adapter the only piece of hardware that needed to be re-installed from its CD before I had a basically operational system.

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