In the early 1970's, scientists started talking about making "magic bullets" to treat cancer, hooking toxins to monoclonal antibodies and creating a sort of smart bomb that would zoom in on tumors and kill them.
You can think of it as a sort of smart-home-theater-in-a-box solution.
More practically, the bulbs function as a sort of smart alarm clock alternative.
Benchling was initially born as a sort of smart notebook for scientists and academics.
Later, the company plans to add an intelligence layer and turn this cookie into a sort of smart assistant.
The Courier was framed as a sort of smart design notebook with sketching, browsing, text annotation and all kinds of productive and creative functions.
The shift is a bit of an extension of what Samsung already offers, which is basic gesture control of their smart televisions, but turning the TV itself into a sort of smart home hub.
The result is a sort of smart auto-reply that actually addresses the received email's contents but doesn't have the downside of requiring the recipients to open, read or respond to it themselves.
And given how many of these things are destined to end up bedside, as a sort of smart alarm clock, coupled with general concern over Google's core business of collecting data, that will likely give potential buyers some peace of mind.
