There is, moreover, an undertone of smartening in the tale.
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Google showed off one of the first steps on the path to smartening up headphones with the Pixel Buds' real-time translation last year.
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Queens cows are smartening up because this is the third cow in Queens to escape a slaughterhouse within the last 43 months, according to Gothamist.
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And it is intensely fun and self-smartening to watch him figure it all out, throw it away and then wrestle it all back together again.
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Other buyers recommend buying cadence and speed sensors for the bike so the trainer can be used with various apps —essentially smartening up a dumb trainer.
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Now it can sell the whole package to them directly by buying the right drones straight from the manufacturers and then smartening them up with its software.
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In order to bridge the gap for users who can't afford or get at these fancy new prostheses, Austrian researchers propose smartening up dumb prosthetics with sensor-packed garments.
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Also honored is Isabel Spearman, a former fashion public relations executive who worked for Cameron's wife Samantha as a stylist and assistant, and Thea Rogers, an adviser credited with smartening up Osborne's public image.
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As part of an ongoing experiment in smartening up my house, I have a Google Home Max in my kitchen, a Google Home Hub in my bedroom, and a Google Assistant-packing Nest camera.
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While much of the focus this midterms season has been on Democrats voting their own into Republican seats, the Democratic base is smartening up to the fact that this November's blue wave doesn't just have to be about overriding Republicans.
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That could be more "smartening" of dumb things in the way that Level Home has done with the dead bolt, or potentially a kind of skeuomorphic approach, but for physical objects (maybe even in a tip of the hat to their early Apple pedigree).
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The European Commission has published wide-ranging proposals, such as allowing price spikes at moments of scarcity and deregulating prices at the retail level, measures to prevent blackouts and clearer rules on cyber-security and the smartening of power grids, and more interconnection between EU states.
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The recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) update to its Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) compliance plan, is the latest in a series of regulatory moves to bring attention to the serious cybersecurity and data privacy issues latent in the ever-expanding internet of things and the ever-smartening supply chain.
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They include cabinet ministers Michael Fallon, Philip Hammond, Patrick McLoughlin and David Lidington, all of whom favored remaining in the EU. Also listed are Isabel Spearman, a former public relations executive for a handbag designer who worked for Cameron's wife Samantha as a stylist and assistant, and Thea Rogers, an aide credited with smartening up finance minister George Osborne.
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And, most recently, in the build-up to the Olympics, Waltham Forest Borough Council spent £475,000 restoring 41 shopfronts on the part of Leyton High Road closest to the 2012 London Olympic Games site. The Olympics authority also funded the smartening up of pavements and street furniture.
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In August 2011, Streatham was selected as one of the areas to benefit from Round 1 of the Mayor of London's Outer London Fund, gaining £300,000. Later, Streatham was awarded a further £1.6 million, matched by another £1 million by Lambeth. The money from this fund was spent on improving streets and public spaces in Streatham. This includes the smartening up of shop fronts through painting and cleaning, replacing shutters and signage as well as helping to reveal facilities behind the high street such as The Stables Community Centre.
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These "dress blues" are worn for formal occasions such as the Marine Corps Birthday Ball in November. The British Household Cavalry and Foot Guards wear uniforms largely unchanged from 1914 for "public duties" i.e. ceremonial. The military of many countries have adopted the economical expedient of smartening up combat uniforms for parade by adding medals, neck scarves and coloured berets to the terrain coloured camouflage uniforms intended for combat. As an interesting example of the combining of old and new features of uniform the French Spahis and the Spanish Regulares still wear the flowing cloaks, fezzes, turbans and sashes of the North African colonial regiments from which they are descended with modern khaki or camouflage clothing, on appropriate occasions.
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