For example, the people who designed the original cell phone at Ericsson, none of them had any inkling that a use would be to enable gay people to hook up in bars as with Grindr.
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Dassault Systemes and Boeing hook up again in a critical test for both companies.
We wanted additional flexibility to be able to unhook and hook up faster in the event of a hurricane.
Example: a new system the company recently sold to EasyJet, a low-cost carrier in the U.K. Pilots hook up a laptop in the cockpit prior to takeoff and fill out all paperwork, download charts and complete their flight plans.
Guy Kawasakis Garage.com (disclosure: I sit on its board) uses the Web to hook up technology startups in Minnesota with angel investors in Silicon Valley. n Consumer power will rise up.
Watch your favorite cable programs in the kitchen, then hook up to a game console in the living room for some action!
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The final version also won't require a tethered computer, though you'll be able to hook it up to one, in order to further customize the instruments.
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It is Gas Natural's third attempt to hook up with a big partner in Spain's rapidly consolidating power industry, having been rebuffed by Endesa in 2005 and Iberdrola in 2003.
In several countries, Europe's centre-right, still reeling from widespread electoral failure, faces a choice: hook up with the far right in order to grab back power, and thereby lend respectability to its ideas, or reject it outright on a point of principle but at the price of electoral defeat.
In addition to being able to hook up directly to your camera via USB, you can also hook in any supported media reader and suck down photos from card-based media.
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Plug in a set of headphones and hook up a guitar, and you can approximate the sound of a rock concert without disturbing everyone in your immediate vicinity (Slash says he uses it to practice in hotel rooms).
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He compares this to a battery-powered light, in which you hook up the wires and electrons flow to make a light bulb turn on.
This could be a problem for larger homes with weak Wi-Fi signals, or for folks who were hoping to hook up a far-off fixture in a shed or pool house.
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So, for instance, Ukrainian listeners can hook up to World Service news by phoning in on their mobiles and listening to audio bulletins.
Federer was in no mood to let Murray off the hook in game six after setting up two break points with a typically accurate volley and completed the break with an inside-out forehand to wrong-foot Murray and lead 4-2.
Once in Vegas, Pham hoped to hook up with employees from another start-up.
Connect and plug in the power adapter and then hook up the optical cable, and it's pretty much ready to go -- save for some pairing woes that required us to unplug everything.
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Stewart was hurt again by a hook in the fourth round and a follow-up straight left weakened him further.
Ireland coughed up a penalty under pressure in defence but Hook saw his kick from tight on the left touchline ricochet back off the post.
Instead of developing games in-house, Microsoft prefers to hook up with small companies based on early versions of their games or the reputations of their designers.
Put both of those alongside a Steam Box and hook it up to your TV and let the gaming begin in earnest without anything strapped around my skull.
"We saw it in Sandy Hook: dozens of funds popped up, some of which are well intentioned and some of which are scams, " said Deputy Executive Director Jeff Dion.
He lines up in a reshaped back division that sees James Hook at full-back, Morgan Stoddart on the other wing and fit-again Jamie Roberts forging a midfield partnership with Jonathan Davies.
However, there are also a large number of college students -- around 50% in one of our studies -- that hook up because they are hoping to start a romantic relationship or want emotional gratification.
With 2 HDMI ports and Component video in, it should accommodate whatever you wish to hook up.
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The pair have signed two-year deals with the Broncos and will hook up with their new team mates for the seven week training camp in Australia.
The company is developing its own in-car device holder so that customers can hook up their phones for hands-free functions, and more importantly, the Zipcar smartphone app is due for a major update.
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