Some organizations have not fully bought into digital yet, much less a world of interconnected smart objects.

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Watch maker Fossil was among the first companies to support MSN Direct, the smart objects technology first offered by Microsoft in a number of timepieces.

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Smart Shoot lets users remove moving objects and select the best faces for the perfect shot every time, and Cinemagraph allows users to easily turn photos into animated GIFs.

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So, good list, Forbes, but you left out the most important tools of all, the cognitive artifacts that have truly made us smart: writing and notational systems, objects of travel and information technology, which really picked up somewhere around the development of the telegraph, but could be argued to have developed earlier with the wide variety of signaling systems.

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Unlike intelligent tags and the idea of a 'smart dust' -- sensor devices in all objects and appliances that are always 'on' -- the person wearing a sensor-enabled coat would be able to choose with whom or what it interacts with.

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The Cinemagraph lens adds simple animations to still photographs, while Smart Shoot creates a single, perfect shot from multiple images, even removing unwanted objects from the picture.

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Smart companies are building new business models leveraging trends such as M2M which is simply the direct communication between objects and systems without the need for human intervention.

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