* Illustration: Andrew Rae * Microbesoft
n. The derisive name given to J. Craig Venter's Synthetic Genomics, which recently filed for a patent to create Mycoplasma laboratorium — the first artificial bacterium. Critics claim that IP protection of microbes will amount to a monopoly on synthetic life-forms.
Yellow-Tag Trailer
n. A movie trailer showing PG-13 nudity or violence, distributed on the Web under MPAA restrictions, including a 9 pm to 4 am viewing window — leaving the target audience just 17 hours each day to peruse the glut of X-rated entertainment available everywhere else on the Internet.
Geosniff
v. To search the Web by location, delivering regionally pertinent information to users and regionally pertinent users to advertisers.
Witricity
n. Electricity that is transferred wirelessly between two electromagnetic coils resonating at the same frequency. It could one day power laptops and charge cell phones cordlessly, but engineers will need to increase the 7-foot range and 40 percent power efficiency.
— Jonathon Keats (jargon@wiredmag.com)
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