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This paper is an exploratory research to search for technological innovation theory in our daily life by adopting the concept of sociomateriality. Unprecedented new technology revolution, the upcoming New Normal Era, and the crisis of Covid 19 pandemic accelerate the paradigm shift from one era to another. Pervasive digital transformation and the age of the individual call for the theory of technological innovation in our everyday life. To propose a conceptual framework, this paper bridges seemingly paradoxical concepts of “social” and “material” by adopting the definition of technology as routine capability. Assuming the duality of technology and dual roles of institutional pressures, the sociomateriality of technology is bound to be improvised and imbricated over time. The technology-in-practice has its value and meaning “now and here” in a specific temporal and spatial context, and only when the technology-in-use continuously innovated in our daily life, can it influence the upper level of innovations. This paper is just a humble step towards the theory development of technology innovation in daily life with some limitations, but it also sheds light on some future research work.