The new Parisian arcades — covered, outdoor pedestrian shopping areas — were, for Benjamin, both the theatres where the modern consumer was born and the ideal showcase for these newly commercialized creative forms.
The technology needed to sense a person's location inside a building, for example, would have to be commercialized in a form that would be usable for such applications.
In such a development, the expanding peripheries of the great cities merge with the surrounding countryside and villages, where a highly commercialized and intensive form of agriculture continues yet where an increasing portion of the farmers' income is derived from nonfarm work.
The Air-Hair makers are currently trying to improve their simulator, but after seeing the video embedded below, I have serious doubts this could ever commercialized in the form of a toy for kids or training tool for hairstylists.
An hour later, his comment had been commercialized, in the form of T-shirts, pins, hats and coffee mugs touting the consumer's "nasty woman -ness.
In 2003, with colleague Dr. Evelyn Hu, Belcher founded Cambrios Technologies in Mountain View, Calif., to commercialize biologically formed electronic materials.
Nearly 50 years after the computer scientist Ivan Sutherland pioneered head-mounted computer displays, there are more than two dozen companies that have attempted to commercialize various forms of the technology, called near-eye displays, with little success.
