Microneighborhoods
Manhattan real estate term for "zones of hipness" engineered by specialty retailers to attract a specific demographic - artists, foodies, sexaholics, fashionistas.
Bluefields
Construction sites built on land reclaimed from the ocean.
Visual Motor Ecstasy
Coined by pediatrician Mel Levine to describe a range of intensely stimulating pursuits (most notably first-person shooter videogames) that involve rapid movement and tend to be nonverbal and devoid of intellectual enrichment.
Placeshifting
Watching or listening to recorded media on any network-connected device - not just the laptop or TiVo box that originally received it. The next logical step beyond timeshifting.
- Gareth Branwyn (jargon@wiredmag.com)
Thanks to contributors Xeni Jardin and Kate Ryan
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