One of the first things we did on this project was discuss what a mundane technology was. This resulted in one of us taking a lot of photos at home and during a visit to an ICT company in order to get a clearer understanding. The results include eyeglasses, walking boots, wordprocessing software, document lamps. Simplicity seems central to a mundane technology - that it is intuitive with well worked out affordances. However, some of the photos also suggest that the particular ecological arrangement can make a technology mundane. With this is the suggestion that mundaneness needs to account for an object ‘becoming ordinary’, ‘becoming difficult’ and ‘becoming extraordinary’. This not only alludes to Chalmers & Galani’s (2004) discussion of tools moving from being ‘ready-to-hand’ to being ‘present-at-hand’ but also to the literature on different forms of ‘emotion work’ (Hochschild, 1983) facilitated by quite ordinary technologies.