It's a good bet, however, that the smartphone (or tablet) will continue to replace "unnecessary" interfaces and buttons cluttering up your home, whether that's through a WiFi-connected TV remote, on-screen home energy management, shopping list reminders through a hooked-up refrigerator or possibly even a dishwasher with remote activation.
So we grabbed a Kill-o-watt and hooked it up to a 60-inch Pioneer Kuro while it was off, and measured a 20 watt draw.
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He came to her house, and armed with a modem, he set up an e-mail account and hooked her up to the university's computer system.
So, they decided on an acceptable amount of resistance that could be added - almost none at all - then hooked up a multimeter and Sorger rode around Boston for weeks, measuring the amount of electricity he generated.
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Eventually, the saxophonist made his way to New York and hooked up with some other talented young up-and-comers in the O.
The computer is hooked up to fiber-optic cables leading to DOT and University of Minnesota networks.
When they hooked up with CD-2, the decoys prevented the real LFA-3 from binding to and activating the T cells.
They set up shop in the tight storage room of their parents' home in Potomac, Maryland, and hooked up a T-1 line.
They set up shop in the tight storage room of their parents' home in Potomac, Md. and hooked up a T-1 line.
You can also add your own by dragging and dropping them through a maze of folders when the e-reader is hooked up to your PC.
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Many petrol stations are already hooked up to gas-lines for heating.
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In the early days of FORBES magazine, which was founded 90 years ago, "network" referred to a chain of radio stations hooked up by wire--and, long before that, to intersecting roads, canals, railways and telegraph lines.
For those who truly want to be disconnected from reality, there's even six-display support provided it's all hooked up to a Mac Pro and a pair of three-output Radeon HD 5770 video cards.
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Max and Yves hooked up (by e-mail) after Max completed his first book, Macromedia Flash: Super Samurai--at age 15.
Its boss calculated that, if his firm hooked up all its power-hungry computers and servers, it would fuse the air-conditioning.
He was also developing another interest: in 1982, he bought his first computer, a somewhat primitive Timex Sinclair that he hooked up to a black-and-white TV.
This comes after a day of frustration trying to get it hooked up to UMTS yesterday -- a sentiment echoed by several others who took the plunge.
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When Mr. Goodman and his co-workers hooked Mr. Snitzer up to the capnograph upon their arrival, they were impressed with his CO2: It was in the low 30s.
As her score climbed, she gained the attention of a range of brands and public-relations firms who hooked her up with prizes, says Ms. Stewart, who has more than 5, 000 Twitter followers.
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Inspired by the idea of a big natural foods supermarket that could provide one-stop shopping to the Birkenstock crowd, Mackey hooked up with two partners in 1980 to open the first 10, 000-square-foot Whole Foods Market, also in Austin.
Around that time, high-speed internet cables were hooked up to every home and business in Ten Sleep thanks to a federal subsidy program aimed at connecting rural America to the web.
We hooked up PCs at small to medium-size businesses so workers could share information.
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Nobody seems to be keeping track--or paying attention to phones hooked up to the wrong rate plan, leading to punitive charges for extra minutes.
Initially, we tested the VGE with a PlayStation 2 hooked up to a recent vintage 27-inch Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) tube.
The display we saw was hooked up to an Intel Core i5-powered PC, which ViewSonic reps say is only capable of pumping out still photos (you'll need a Core i7 for video or regular computer use), but we very much liked what we saw.
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About thirty years ago, Motorola hooked up with Nextel to bring national two-way push-to-talk service to businesses and government through a public infrastructure network.
It's a photo taken in 1972 of a Philip Morris office space, all white and empty but for rank-and-file black telephones on the floor hooked up to outlet poles as if on IV support.
The FCC has rules about the former, requiring that those paid to give endorsements disclose that fact (including mommy bloggers who get free bottles to review and exercise bloggers who get hooked up with free energy bars from attention-craved companies).
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Only 1% of the amateur power is connected to the grid now, but Portland General Electric (nyse: POR - news - people ) in Oregon has hooked up 21 large customers with 43 megawatts of generating power that can be turned on electronically and supplied to the grid.
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