Apparently that's one of the sounds that is part of the human brain's hard wiring.

He added that while "hard wiring" is the best way to transmit the necessary signals for home automation, there are alternatives.

It is less costly, by up to 75 percent, according to the company's estimate, than the smoke-detector systems that require hard wiring.

That hard wiring also keeps it from getting too smart.

AS-Interface is a networking alternative to the hard wiring of field devices.

However, they communicated directly to the common control Translator via hard wiring.

Before converting hard wiring to modular, call your phone company to be sure such modifications are allowed.

If the hard wiring is still there, I could have you sitting by three weeks and walking by twelve.

And it's not hard wiring we're talking about.