Judging by the number of folks walking around Silicon Valley grocery stores with a Jawbone in ear, they haven't had much trouble selling pricey headsets… but those are pretty commonplace items, especially given that some States are requiring them for any calls placed while driving.
Look beyond the commonplace vegetable salads and scoop out other items that might be on offer.
He said that the revolution in miniaturization in commonplace items like telephones will eventually also mean that biological, chemical and even nuclear weapons will be able to be put in packages small enough to transport easily.
He is also always on the lookout for the commonplace items — tennis rackets, computer keys, garden hoses — that he uses to build his installations.
Talking about places that are ramping up the quality of commonplace items, the nearby Jaunty Goat is Chester's go-to "third wave" coffee shop.
He hopes for culture change akin to the campaign that transformed auto seatbelts from novel gadgets into commonplace items.
She recognized the charm of recasting commonplace items in an unexpected material, and tapped into the persistent cultural identity that comes from consumption (cue Barbara Kruger's I shop therefore I am ).
Charlotte City Manager Curt Walton said Monday that citizens would be banned from carrying a host of commonplace items, including bicycle helmets, padlocks and permanent markers, along with weapons, mace, pepper spray and pipe.
Commonplace items found in the local environment can be used to emulate more sophisticated instruments, and community-specific engineering programs can be developed to provide locally produced appropriate technology that promotes independence from Western sources.
There are seldom any witnesses, and fires can be started with commonplace items.
