Jackson wants to open up possibilities for people with locked-in syndrome to communicate and move.
Home values may gain value over time, but home equity is locked-in until the house is sold.
Their main innovation appears to be the notion of offering disparate existing functionality on a locked-in platform.
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Two locked-in success formulas, both out of date, needed dramatic overhauls if Sears Holdings was to succeed.
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He was paralysed by a stroke in 2005 and suffered from locked-in syndrome.
Already, brain-computer interfaces can enable totally paralysed people with locked-in syndrome to communicate.
And when that happens, will Ikea find itself so locked-in to its strategy that it cannot adjust to market shifts?
Mobcast offers a cloud-based service that lets customers build up an eBook library collection without being locked-in to one single device.
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But one can already see how the company, and its CEO, have locked-in on what worked early in the company lifecycle.
Multiple locked-in syndrome patients can compete with each other in this game.
Hanley told CNN that Houben may have been in a locked-in state.
Subsequently, she deteriorated and was transported back to the United States with headache and vomiting progressing to quadriparesis, locked-in syndrome, and superimposed encephalopathy.
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Instead of buying the solar array, homeowners can lease the system with monthly payments for the equipment and a locked-in price for electricity.
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There are also patients who are "locked-in, " and are totally aware of the sights and sounds around them, but cannot move or speak.
They differ from so-called 'locked-in' patients whose brain function is intact but are paralysed and communicate usually through eye or small head movements.
What helped them initially grow becomes locked-in by behavioral norms, structural decision-making processes and a cost structure that may be tweaked, but rarely changed.
While 40-60 percent of potential global warming is effectively locked-in, CEPR says, as much as half the rest could be cut through reducing work hours.
His locked-in syndrome sees him communicate with his family by blinking.
The PBGC pension amounts are locked-in to a fixed dollar amount.
And he was the editor of French Elle magazine who one day suffers a horrible stroke and wakes up with locked - what is doctors call locked-in syndrome.
Diagnosis can be further complicated by another condition, called Locked-In Syndrome.
The developing world still has a ton of locked-in Microsoft users.
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The ashes of Tony Nicklinson, who suffered from locked-in syndrome after a stroke, are to be scattered at a rugby ground where he used to play.
The debate over assisted suicide has resurfaced after Tony Nicklinson, a man with locked-in syndrome, died a week after losing a legal bid to end his life.
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The original hardware for a device that utilizes this technique was developed by Hitachi, and it allows a person with locked-in syndrome to say "yes" or "no, " Jackson said.
Things might be a penny cheaper, but the business is likely much less flexible, more vulnerable to market shifts, and far more locked-in to doing what it always did!
First, Dr Sobel's team rigged up the device to allow people who suffer from locked-in syndrome to communicate, by dictating text onto a computer screen using coded patterns of sniffing.
Much less common than VS or MCS, patients in a locked-in state are totally aware of their environment but have minimal reflexive movements, typically only being able to blink their eyes.
This is an important corner to turn for any digital product because of the potential elevation from a price-sensitive commodity to a locked-in ecosystem subject to the expansive laws of network effects.
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For deaf people or those with significant hearing loss, these gloves offer hope against the locked-in feeling that the community can experience due to the low numbers of signers in the general population.
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