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Light Vests (Laser Tag)
A vest and light gun combination used to score hits.
(From The Fastest Draw [1963] by Larry Eisenberg)
Mechanical Marshal
An automaton that functions like a quick-draw lawman of the Old West.
(From The Fastest Draw [1963] by Larry Eisenberg)
Brillo
A police robot.
(From Brillo [1970] by Ben Bova (w/H. Ellison))
Lawagon
A police car with extra features.
(From Into the Shop [1964] by Ron Goulart)
Private Eye Software
Sam Spade from 1s and 0s.
(From Finger of Fate [1980] by Edward Wellen)
Secret Agent Robot
A robotic agent sent to uncover the Soviet threat.
(From Powers of Observation [1968] by Harry Harrison)
Perimeter Robot
A purpose-designed robotic sentry, looking for aliens.
(From The Cruel Equations [1969] by Robert Sheckley)
Faked Video
Fraudulent video and audio file created from original materials to order.
(From The Jagged Orbit [1968] by John Brunner)
Air Suit
A simple kind of outfit that needed only oxygen for its occupant.
(From When the Sun Went Out [1937] by Eando Binder)
Ceiling Monorail
A handy conveyance for seeing the only underground city of a dying Earth.
(From When the Sun Went Out [1937] by John R. Binder)
Benevolent Ostracism
Choosing not to contact primitive races.
(From Liberation of Earth [1953] by William Tenn)
Hammock Crutches
How would worm-like creatures walk about under heavy gravity?
(From Liberation of Earth [1953] by William Tenn)
Wings of the Wind
A most extraordinary personal flying conveyance.
(From The Undesired Princess [1942] by L. Sprague de Camp)
Engineered Plague
A virus that primarily attacks one sex.
(From The Hole in the Moon [1952] by Margaret St. Clair)
Automatonic Autosuggestive Subvibratory Superaccelerator
Time goes in a circle.
(From The Yehudi Principle [1944] by Frederic Brown)
Tomato Babies
Unusual fruit native to Iapetus, can hold electric soul.
(From Return Engagement [1952] by Margaret St. Clair)
Robie Vending Robot
A robotic vending machine that seeks out customers.
(From A Bad Day For Sales [1953] by Fritz Leiber)
Metal Lark
A device that adjusts the vocal chords and helps the user to be the best singer possible.
(From The Metal Lark [1948] by Margaret St. Clair)
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