Carbon Cannibals
Hardware hackers who crack open the Rio Carbon MP3 players to repurpose or resell its 5-gig hard drive, which retails for more than the $225 Carbon.
Mobile Speed Bumps
Community-group members who drive the highways at the posted speed limit in an effort to force the cars behind them to do the same.
Reality Mining
Taking input from the real world and streaming it onto a computer network for analysis. For example, entire forests can be brought "online" via networked tree sensors, enabling real-time monitoring of health, growth rates, and projected yields.
Freegans
Urban scavengers who opt for a "recycling lifestyle." They're committed to surviving on society's discards, tapping everything from dumpsters to Web sites like Wastematch.org to score free stuff.
Living Bandage
A wound dressing made from human skin cells, particularly those cultured from a patient's own body.
- Gareth Branwyn (jargon@wiredmag.com) Thanks to contributors Sean Hamilton Alexander, Alberto Gaitan, Andrew Sasaki
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