Whittingdale was born in Dorset to a 66-year-old surgeon and a mother whose ancestry puts him, in the quaint description of his Wikipedia entry, "in distant remainder to the lordship of Napier" (meaning he is connected remotely to the Scottish laird John Napier, who invented logarithms).
This really is a sorry tale, a revelation of how the most famous and justly revered artist in the world has become the centre of an inflated industry where everything than can remotely be connected with him is hyped to insane degrees of exaggeration or wishful thinking.
If we can be connected to each other remotely through our mobile devices, the natural extension is being connected to our homes in a similar way.
If you need to update your router setting remotely, only set up access for the time you are going to be connected.
Among the items that could be connected: a garden planter (so it could be watered from afar); a coffee pot (so it could be set to brew remotely); or a light bulb (so it could be turned off remotely).
It is connected to the Internet so you can remotely open and close your garage from afar, using a smartphone, tablet or computer.
Because it's connected to a satellite network, it can be piloted remotely.
Adherence to the eBI intervention will be assessed by monitoring remotely either when the smartphone device is connected to the internet, or else access to the web application.
Sensors are connected to the controller, either directly using UART protocol or remotely using Zigbee protocol.
However, none of the statements remotely suggests that the authors were under the impression that Donkey Kong was connected with the company holding the King Kong trademark.
"It's all connected to a computer system, and that is connected to the network, which is connected to the internet, so I see a way it can be accessed remotely," he said.
