Throughout history it has been far easier to find leaders who are way up on the smart scale.
It also recently launched its Wi-Fi Smart Scale, which transmits your weight, body fat and body mass index to the cloud.
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The scales, known as the Smart Body Analyzer, are the first-ever smart scale to feature heart rate measurement and air quality monitoring.
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The Health Mate app is also compatible with the Withings Smart Scale, which will track progress toward your weight-loss goal and graph your weight over time.
But the change shows that large-scale smart-grid initiatives may be much more costly than previously expected, and likely means that a smaller number of initiatives grab larger chunks of funding, says DOE spokeswoman Jen Stutman.
Yes, I know A123 also pursued the smart grid market to provide utility-scale storage.
On a much smaller scale, the latest "smart" thermostats can also save businesses and households money on their energy bills.
We want to have an impact on the economy of Detroit, but we also want to show that an enterprising, smart company can be on a national scale here, and ultimately, encourage others to join us.
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More importantly, the subsea smart grid set the stage for large-scale subsea processing, which would reduce the costs of developing deep-sea fields dramatically.
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And Korea is quietly connecting its national labs, historically great technical universities, and public utilities to conduct large-scale tests of cutting-edge smart grid technologies.
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Social networks have allowed smart marketers to utilize this on a much bigger scale.
Smart grids can happen at the building level and scale up to global, just as the Internet did.
The alliance's manifesto calls for measures to reduce demand on the main electricity transmission grid, including smart meters, encouragement for community and small-scale local energy generation, and further research on methods of storage of electricity.
But just as Intel made a fortune out of that law through innovation and economies of scale, so can communications companies if they get smart.
After all, the smart phone world is a platform war, where first mover advantage and scale matter.
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"They bought a subdivision of Intel called X-Scale, which makes the processor that goes into high-end cellphones like smart phones, " Shah says.
It is chock-full of features that include ASUS Smart Contrast Ratio technology, 100% sRGB color space compatibility, ASUS exclusive QuickFit Virtual Scale, and Splendid Video Intelligence Technology.
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