Called Roominate, there would be a kit that not only included materials to build a doll house but electronics to wire it as well.

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For Andrew Blum, a writer for Wired, that illusion was shattered on the day a squirrel chewed through the wire connecting his house to the internet.

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Basically, the idea is to build components for a doll house that include the wires: you can, literally, wire the doll house up for electronics.

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North of Greensboro, the peaked Music Man House is set behind a wild gate made from found materials quilted together with wire.

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In order to get the CO, the house had to pass a town inspection, which it had initially failed due to a wire near the stove, an outlet near the kitchen sink and a battery in the smoke detector in the attic.

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Separated by razor wire from a busy road, it is a clean but slightly run-down patchwork of pastel-colored bungalows that house 70 orphaned, abandoned or abused children, from newborns to kids age 6.

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