Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country, by Robert V. Camuto (University of Nebraska Press, $24.95), is a slender volume with little obvious utility.
Their daily rituals, their child-rearing practices, and even their folktales reinforce these values, which have an obvious utility for subsistence farmers.
In addition to transporting objects and water, there is the more obvious utility of animal skins in protecting against night chills, rain, and strong sunshine.
Yet the book is a corrective to what he considers the modern desire to seek purpose and obvious utility out of every experience, even of a walk in the woods.
If you are wondering who would spend $1,500 for a walking PC with no obvious utility, you're not alone; Aibo is clearly a polarizing product, inspiring in every observer either overwhelming desire or utter befuddlement.
Don't think warmer temperatures will chase the hats away: SpiritHoods have also been spotted indoors at clubs and live-music shows, environments in which they have no obvious utility.
The service has obvious utility for a journalist, but no matter what business you are in, imagine knowing what the thought leaders in your industry were reading and considering.
Aside from their obvious utility to road warriors, wearable displays are likely to revolutionize business practice across the boards.
Royzen's app has its issues, but it works very well in many circumstances and has obvious utility.
He warned: "The ability to maintain restrictions for more than two years was of obvious utility in the case of a person who could still not be prosecuted or deported... and had not been de-radicalised".
