Sous Chef's julienne peelers are invaluable when needing to quickly throw together cheap, Asian-inspired salads (our go-to packed lunch) – run them over your carrots, celeriac, cucumber and celery, then add fresh coriander, sesame oil, rice wine vinegar and a touch of fish sauce.
Nicolas Reys, in his report for the ControlRisks consultancy, explains that they are the natural outcome of three technologies being combined together: cheap logic controllers, a large number of sensors spread all over the city, and a network that connects them all together.
The how factor though was slightly harder to determine but we concluded that a number of factors had came together last year – cheaper better software coupled with cheaper faster bandwidth – which had lowered the initial start-up costs, thus enabling many more entrepreneurs to prove their idea in the real world prior to seeking funding.
Dr Reddy's Laboratories, an Indian pharmaceutical company, and Merck KGaA, a German one, are working together on cheaper versions of cancer therapies that are losing their patent protection.
Seeking both an accepting community and affordable rent, they have often flocked together in cheaper areas of inner cities, such as gay-friendly Williamsburg.
For companies, meanwhile, looking at existing contracts can help firms to decide if they want to bid when that contract is up for renewal, and provides information that will allow them to put together a cheaper, better bid.
Not too long ago, O'Reilly seemed to come out in support of the public option, saying, "I want, not for personally for me, but for working Americans, to have a option, that if they don't like their health insurance, if it's too expensive, they can't afford it, if the government can cobble together a cheaper insurance policy that gives the same benefits, I see that as a plus for the folks".
If proprietary systems can be mixed together and cheap chips used in place of custom semiconductors, prices for the gear would most likely will drop.
For example, Ryanair has a promotion on flights to Greece over the next few weeks if you want to put together a cheap DIY trip - though be warned that you would forego the protection offered by proper package holidays.
