Empowered and hot-wired-to-the-Internet consumers can move faster than an electronic money transfer when they feel the need.
Or he could be driving a wired-up car with a woman and a child on board just for camouflage.
"There is a living room, bathroom, bedroom and a kitchen, " he says, and the place is "wired-up" to host the latest electronic devices.
The result is America's Most Connected Campuses, a list of the most wired--and, increasingly, wireless--schools in the country, measuring infrastructure available to students.
Mobile aps constantly alert wired-in customers what deals are coming next.
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"Short form communication is defining modern culture, and every phone number-wireless or wired-should be able to support the text medium, " said John Lauer, CEO of Zipwhip.
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Kent says he felt uncomfortable about how Allen increasingly planned to have some of his other private companies work with Charter in his so-called wired-world vision.
Further investigations revealed that these detached cells exerted some subtle electromagnetic influence on the wired-up part of the circuit, allowing it to perform its task efficiently.
Instead of checking in to some wildly expensive spa for a few days of wired-up analysis by teams of kinesiology eggheads with space-age machines, how about doing a some deep data-mining using the soggy, smelly, salt-stained socks and shirt and shorts in your workout bag?
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If we are hard-wired to be communal, as scientists claim, then we are also hard-wired to accept brands.
It was command-wired and pressure-plated, so whether he set it off or we set it off, it would have been a bad day.
"It was pre-wired for stuff --- networking, " Donald said.
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The less hard-wired into deal-documentation ratings are, the easier it may be for the industry to argue that its judgments are mere opinions, protected by free-speech laws, and to dodge liability for flawed ratings.
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The Sony also lacks the built-in IR emitters of the Revue -- there's a wired two-headed IR blaster, but after using the Revue's built-in emitters we much prefer them to stringing IR blaster cables.
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Myspace -- a virtual hangout for wired teens -- has seen its membership rise to 40 million in the last year, prompting News Corp to pick up its parent for more than half a billion dollars.
Some are hard-wired by genetics and early-life experience to react more fearfully to challenges.
The current version is merely a wired proof-of-concept, but Mad Genius plans to eventually make it wireless and hit Kickstarter for funding.
Wurman sold TED in 2002 to U.K. publishing entrepreneur Chris Anderson (no relation to the editor of Wired magazine--though Anderson the editor was at EG--just to confuse those playing from home).
Neuroscientist Paul Zak, author of The Moral Molecule, has studied the trust trap extensively at the Claremont Graduate University Center for Neuoroeconomic Studies, and says that we all suffer a hard-wired disadvantage when it comes to identifying well-structured cons.
There is no hard-wired fan agony surrounding the Heat, no decades-long boil for a title.
Modern college dorms are more high-tech than most office buildings, wired with super-fast connections to the Internet and equipped with all the amenities of 21st-century life.
Netflix's ultimately abandoned foray into the hardware business with its own streaming device has been known for some time -- Wired revealed many of the details in a 2009 article -- but Fast Company has now uncovered some more on the effort that hadn't yet seen the light of day.
This was the early days of e-services and I was beginning to get emotionally wired into e-mails and other web services.
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"We do believe that the next iPhone display will implement in-cell touch, " DisplaySearch's Paul Semenza told Wired via e-mail.
It's a very evolutionarily hard-wired response that comes from a primitive need to respond very quickly.
The short answer is that we, and men especially, are hard-wired to always want more.
Similarly, we are hard-wired to inductively reach broad conclusions about people from relatively few data points.
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Economic growth results from the hard-wired desire of the individual to produce in order to consume.
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Modern, unequal societies are hugely stressful because they violate people's hard-wired sense of fairness.
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