Esa believes double layer drives could be as small and economical as the one on board Smart 1, but much more powerful, which would enable craft to accelerate and decelerate faster.

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Lewis Wu, project manager for smart cards at Singapore's National Computer Board, charts several social changes that have promoted smart tech.

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Yet the Chinese have been buying smart rather than across the board.

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Smart publishers ought to jump on board.

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But then Lisette was rarely called on in math class sometimes she shut her eyes, pretending that she was thinking really hard, and when she opened them there was one of the three or four smart kids in the class at the board, taking the chalk from Nowicki.

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Some of these solutions can even be embedded on smart cards, enabling simple as well as sophisticated pay as you go from mobile devices such as phones, tablets, on-board units embedded into cars, smart cards embedded into vending machines, toll gates!

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With smart pavement and GPS providing data to on-board computers in vehicles, traffic could be programmed to move in elegant swoops following safety algorithms that guarantee the safety of people, cyclists and green spaces.

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How incredibly smart she must be in order to be elected to the prestigious board of Starbucks.

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