pario n.— «Goldstein and Mowry refer to the larger context of transmissable synthetic reality as “pario,” from the Latin for “create, make, produce, bring forth.”» —“Claytronics and the Pario World” by Jamais Cascio WorldChanging June 13, 2005...
claytronics n.— «Serious research is already underway heading down the path to programmable matter. Called “claytronics” at Carnegie-Mellon University, and “dynamic physical rendering” at Intel (which is supporting the CMU work), the synthetic...
barcode n.— «Several years ago researchers created probes consisting of nanoscale bars of metal actually etched with conventional bar codes. Since then, most molecular tagging devices have been referred to as “barcodes,” even though there are no...
lookology n.— «We enjoyed seeing numerous colored slides of microscopy, as novices in “Lookology.” The differences between cotton and synthetic fibers’ morphology, and potato and wheat starch grains are adequate for identification under crossed...
shut in n.— «About 300,000 barrels a day of wellhead capacity, representing about 70 per cent of Western Canada’s potential production, is shut in—a figure that is bound to increase later this year with the commissioning of the Fort McMurray...
backpack rap n.— «I think that’s already happening in the form of what Stretch Armstrong disdainfully calls “backpack rap”—emphasis on lyrics and/or bugged production, with head-nodding a low priority. unfortunately, this kind of synthetic genre is...