During our online discussion about how being focused on one’s phone or camera can distract from fully participating in an experience, a listener brought up the term chimping. As we’ve noted before, chimping refers to fiddling with the buttons on a...
mocapography n.— «The movie, which opens in November, was filmed in something called “mocapography” using a multitude of digital cameras doing motion capture. Stars Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Ray Winstone and Crispin Glover moved around on a...
dangle n.— «Griffin was a big guy, even without the bulky body armor, helmet, and “dangle”—what soldiers call the bits of gear that they clip, strap, or otherwise buckle to their uniforms. He had half a dozen rifle magazines strapped across his...
digiroid n. a test photograph taken with a cheap digital camera before a more expensive or complicated one is used. Editorial Note: Polaroid instant cameras, which offer cheap, self-developing pictures, have long been used in this way. Etymological...
chief memory officer n.— «The company could take a big leap of faith based on Schaeffer’s gut instinct that women really were hungry for a digital camera that put them back in the position of “chief memory officer,” as he had begun referring to...
dica n. a digital camera, most commonly as part of a mobile phone. Also dika. Etymological Note: From digital camera. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
