Sentence examples for beyond shiny from inspiring English sources

In "What Technology Wants," Kelly provides an engaging journey through the history of "the technium," a term he uses to describe the "global, massively interconnected system of technology vibrating around us," extending "beyond shiny hardware to include culture, art, social institutions and intellectual creations of all types".

Beyond shiny jewelry, the Cabriolet gets a very crisp, nine-speaker audio system with CD changer standard, or a Bose unit ($650) that adds subwoofers and even more speakers and power.

Beyond shiny new transit projects, Villaraigosa said his work to bring transportation improvements to the entire county, not just the city of Los Angeles, offered insight into how he would operate as governor.

"Working primarily with technology I think it is important to look beyond shiny interfaces," says Schmieg. "What often seems immaterial or almost invisible does always have very physical conditions in which it is being created, maintained and executed.

I trudged out of the Upper West Side's version of Bed Bath and Beyond with shiny new broom in hand, ready to tackle a complete round of housecleaning in my Inwood apartment.

It too needs changes that go far beyond building shiny new stadiums.

Not that Jaheim noticed anything beyond the shiny green and white toy Hess helicopter that he hugged as tightly as a teddy bear in his arms.

There, just beyond a shiny new McDonald's and a Blockbuster Video, rises the Petroglyph National Monument, an escarpment of black volcanic rock decorated with mysterious carvings, some incised 2,000 years ago: birds, stars, spirals, masks, shield bearers, flute players and horned serpents.

As the rate of technical improvements slows and new models offer little beyond a shiny new exterior, the urge to spend £600 each year has become easier to ignore.

But it's more than being able to interact with the remarkable microcomputers in our everyday lives, it's about having the knowhow and the confidence to look beyond the shiny applications and to the code beneath: about using technology to create from the ground up, not just consume.

"If you look beyond the shiny surface you find complexities which existentialism brings out and dramatises".