Firing up a web browser and start digging into the Sleek's backend reveals even more options, and that's where much of the magic happens — users will be able to hook up certain sorts of smart-home gadgetry into the Sleek service, and can control them by chatting up the Sleek base station.
The headline is attached to a feature by the magazine's editor-in-chief, Chris Anderson, outlining what he calls the abandonment of "the open, unfettered web... for simpler, sleeker services".
Anyone who has travelled on the European continent will be familiar with the thrill of high-speed trains: French TGV, German ICE, Spain's sleek AVE services.
Should you find a crowd, try the sleek self-service stations a couple of steps away.
His home base is CastleBraid, a sleek, full-service rental building on Troutman Street marketed toward artists and art lovers.
Wraps filled with steak or duck confit are other choices in this sleek, counter-service place with a few tables, open around the clock.
The lounge is decidedly Miami-esque, with sleek bottle-service booths, black-lighted paintings and a giant 60-sided polyhedron pulsating with neon projections.
If there is a certain inevitability about this (where, in the developed world, does one still find conductors on buses?), then the parlous state of Britain's railways is so anomalous, when contrasted with the sleek, state-funded services speeding through Continental Europe, as to be inexcusable.
On Monday, I reported on the plans of Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, best known as two of the founders of YouTube, to transform Delicious, a social bookmarking service that never quite caught on among mainstream Web users, into a popular, sleek and modern service.
But she is aspiring to join a small band of bookstore owners who have found patches of old-fashioned success in recent years, competing where Amazon cannot: by being small and sleek, with personal service, intimate author events and a carefully chosen rotation of books.
