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Inertial Bracelet  
  Device to still hand tremors.  

Eron hadn't seen her since leaving Konn to work with Hanis, and he was saddened to note that she now wore stylish inertial bracelets around her wrists which had the function of actively damping the tremor in her hands. She could no longer play the violin.
Technovelgy from Psychohistorical Crisis, by Donald Kingsbury.
Published by Macmillan in 2001
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Compare to the Wrist Search Display from A Matter of Size (1934) by Harry Bates, Wireless Wrist Intercom from The Shape of Things To Come (1936) by H.G. Wells, Reserve Bracelet from Plague (1944) by Murray Leinster, Tattletale from The Game Players of Titan (1963) by Philip K. Dick, Wristband Viewer from Changeling (1980) by Roger Zelazny, Implant-Watch from Cloak of Anarchy (1972) by Larry Niven, Predator Wrist Display from Predator (1987) by John McTierna, Wrist Command from Tides of Light (1989) by Gregory Benford, Tracking Bracelet from Shadowspeer (1990) by Patricia Jo Clayton, Command Bracelet from Sagramanda (2006) by Alan Dean Foster and the Wristpad from New York 2140 (2017) by Kim Stanley Robinson.

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