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Peelgrace: Lifting the Film Off Something New in One Perfect Sheet
(n.) The small, glowing joy of peeling the clear film off a brand-new screen in one unbroken sheet, without a single tear or bubble.
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Tabhoard: The Forty Browser Tabs You Are Definitely Going to Read
Tabhoard is the quiet row of open browser tabs you are keeping for later, each one a small promise that later will somehow arrive.
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Why Does Déjà Vu Feel So Real?
That sudden certainty that you have lived this exact moment before is one of the strangest tricks a healthy brain plays, and psychologists have found a way to switch it on in the lab.
Fiction Made-Up Words
Echowish
(n.) The reflex that fires a good wish straight back at the person who offered it, so that a waiter setting down your dinner is warmly told to enjoy his meal too.
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Seatecho
(n.) The lingering warmth of a seat recently vacated by a stranger, which is somehow far less welcome than a cold seat, even on the coldest day of the year.
Fiction Useless Inventions
The Jigsaw That Comes With a Piece Already Missing
A handsome 1,000-piece puzzle that saves you years of suspense by leaving one piece out at the factory, so you know from the very start that you will never finish it.
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Buzzghost
(n.) The phone vibration you feel clearly and distinctly against your leg, from a phone that did not vibrate, and quite often is not in that pocket at all.
Fiction Useless Inventions
The Diplomatic Thermostat
An office thermostat that gives every person who touches it exactly the temperature they asked for, on its little screen, while the actual room stays precisely where it was.
Fiction Useless Inventions
The Goodbye Extender
A telescopic hallway that grows a little longer every time someone says right, we really should be going, and then does not go.
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Wavelorn
(adj.) Stranded in public after cheerfully returning a wave that was meant for the person behind you, with your hand still up and nowhere dignified to put it.