Companies are becoming more clever about using – or misusing, depending on your perspective – the patent system to extract funds from competitors or thwart others' growth.
But a new study harnesses capsaicin's special affinity for pain-sensing neurons in a more clever way, using it to open tiny channels on the cells' surfaces so that another drug--an anesthetic--can get inside.
Slowing traffic right down in cities helps reduce noise, not by using those futile sleeping policemen, whereby cars simply skid ostentatiously to a halt and then accelerate away and by making motorways through cities seem smaller and more local by clever use of signage and by adding more frequent turnoffs.
"I believe we are at the beginning of a great new era". Industry officials say companies also will find ever more clever ways to use data.
Amid all this uncertainty, a growing body of evidence supports the notion that whatever synesthesia is, it represents more than the clever use of metaphor by creative individuals.
One, this is definitely one of the more clever and appealing use cases for Google+'s Hangouts, which is, to date, still the main selling point for Google's new social network.
"It is a tool that is more and more used in New York, for 20 years now, and the Legislature and executive have gotten more and more clever about how to use it to minimize disruption," said Mr. Forsythe.
This buzzword means nothing more specific than "some clever use of data". It doesn't necessarily refer to any particular technology, method, or value proposition.
But in recent years it's become much easier – the wires have disappeared, letting people print over wifi from all kinds of devices, such as tablets and phones, and software has become much more clever and easy to use.
What he's up to is far more clever - he's using his memoirs to build Blair Inc and he has put together an extraordinary business model.
