Napster Fabbing Peer-to-peer networking meets "3-D printing" (creating physical objects with a digital fabricator), allowing users to swap design files and render them into actual products.
Pooparazzi Nickname for a pill-sized video camera that takes pictures of a patient's gastrointestinal system.
Radio Tags RF identification tags with Net-connected receivers that would let manufacturers track consumer products from assembly line to landfill.
Simputer The mobile, sub-$200 "simple computer" that's being developed by a nonprofit trust in India for the rural population.
TiVo Bomb A design flaw in the TiVo personal video recorder that causes it to save multiple episodes of a requested program instead of just one, writing over other shows you've recorded but haven't yet watched.
Tip o' the widow's peak to Mark Frauenfelder, Alberto Gaitán, and Kyle Pike.
- Gareth Branwyn (jargon@wiredmag.com)
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