In addition to providing software, which is where Google's expertise lies, the technology giant is looking to design connected hardware and appliances for the home.

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All the technological complexities are hidden in the design and the fabric can only be connected in one way.

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With a wheel off design and super flywheel, the iPhone connected bike trainer is engineered to produce an ultra-realistic road feel, equivalent to the inertia of an actual rider on the road.

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Wright connected the two disparate works and thought, why not design a game that involves interaction among people from the ground up?

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She and her husband, who is CEO of health-insurance firm Connected Health, worked with architect Mr. Justiss to design a seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom compound with three courtyards and two terraces.

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First seen in Berlin at IFA 2012 in August, the new connected camera combines high performance photography with the cutting-edge design of Samsung's Galaxy smartphone range.

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It is particularly attractive when compared with Sony Ericsson's misconceived HBH-20 Handsfree headset, whose design--a transceiver you clip to your shirt with an earbud connected to it via a wire--mocks the very idea of wirelessness.

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To complement the company's sleek, button less design, users are able to control the speaker's functionality with their connected touch screen device.

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Here I was, a temporary traveller on a spinning globe, alone yet connected to every single one of these: a piece in a puzzle of a journey whose design I would probably never know, but whose path had restored my sense of the whole, in the ruins of Banteay Chhmar.

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