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| Palm Key-Plate A plate that accepts palms that have been verified. (From The Stars are The Styx [1950] by Theodore Sturgeon) |
| Robotrix A robot, female in appearance. (From Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said [1974] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Television 'Phone A video call. (From The Sword and the Atopen [1930] by Taylor H. Greenfield) |
| Artificial Sun Use of a single large artifact to provide sunlight to a city or a world. (From The Bride of Osirus [1927] by Otis Adelbert Kline) |
| Reflected Artificial Sun Sending light to another planet via mirror. (From Revolt on Inferno [1931] by Victor Rousseau) |
| Air-Dock A docking mechanism that seems to catch a descending space-ship in mid-air. (From Revolt on Inferno [1931] by Victor Rousseau) |
| Ten Million Mile Searchlight You need to see where you're going. (From Revolt on Inferno [1931] by Victor Rousseau) |
| Multigyros Allows known stable movement in four dimensions, thus making space travel possible. (From Revolt on Inferno [1931] by Victor Rousseau) |
| Jetta Tube Spray causes immediately a trance-like state where a person’s body becomes rigid. (From Revolt on Inferno [1931] by Victor Rousseau) |
| Up-and-Down Orientation Designed and constructed as if gravity were a factor. (From Waldo [1942] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Prison Planet (Penal Settlement) A prison so far from Earth. (From Revolt on Inferno [1931] by Victor Rousseau) |
| Chronanalyzer Isolate specific movements for analysis. (From Waldo [1942] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Maintenance Drone (Holon) A semi-autonomous flying device used to perform repairs. (From The Mountain in the Sea [2022] by Ray Naylor) |
| Tin Foil Hat (Tin Pulpit) A metal device that protects the user from unwanted telepathic intrusions. (From The Tissue-Culture King [1927] by Julian Huxley) |
| Autotrawler Autonomous Fishing Factory Ship An entirely autonomous vessel with imprisoned labor that scrapes the sea for protein and off-loads it to other ships. (From The Mountain in the Sea [2022] by Ray Naylor) |
| AI Control Portal A special window into an artificial intelligence, to allow an operator to take control of it if necessary. (From The Mountain in the Sea [2022] by Ray Naylor) |
| Sentenced Man A person who commits asocial actions and lives in society, but in reduced circumstances. (From Robot Justice [1959] by Harry Harrison) |
| Space Traffic The movement of numbers of ships through space. (From Satan in Exile [1935] by Arthur William Bernal) |
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