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nana technology

nana technology  n.— «Get used to “nana technology”—technology that your grandmother might use. That’s what Andrew Carle, assistant professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., likes to call the wave of technology...

walltop

walltop  n.— «Five hours later I turned my laptop into a digital picture frame. Coined as a “walltop” by one of the first that was widely publicized (here), it is just a plain old laptop with the screen being displayed in a picture frame...

Skylab

Skylab  n.— «Skylab Motorbike that can seat 6 persons. One person in front of the driver, 2 behind him and two on either side of the horizontal slab of wood tied to its rear like an outrigger.» —“Workshop Programme” by S...

email bankruptcy

email bankruptcy  n.— «The term “e-mail bankruptcy” may have been coined as early as 1999 by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who studies the relationship between people and technology. Professor Sherry Turkle...

unmarriage revolution

unmarriage revolution  n.— «The increasingly sophisticated, market-driven technology eventually joined forces with what I call the “unmarriage revolution”—that is, the decoupling of marriage and child rearing—and extended itself to single...

prox card

prox card  n.— «Sexual assault and other incidents in college dorms have led many schools to control access to these buildings by giving residents a kind of electronic key, often called a prox card, that can also be used to track the...

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