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Time-Warping Construct A device that appears to cause alternate worlds or paraworld.
(From Lies, Inc. [1964] by Philip K. Dick) |
Electronic Book Store A place to pick up your electronic books.
(From Return from the Stars [1961] by Stanislaw Lem) |
Robot Busboy A robotic device able to autonomously clear tables in a restaurant.
(From Lies, Inc. [1964] by Philip K. Dick) |
Cephalotropic Dart A slim, short-range device that homes in on the brain wave pattern of the target.
(From Lies, Inc. [1964] by Philip K. Dick) |
Poison-Bearing Invisible Glove Membranous apparel for the hands, used to dispense poisons.
(From Lies, Inc. [1964] by Philip K. Dick) |
Creditor Jet-Balloon A small, hovering device that hounds debtors.
(From Lies, Inc. [1964] by Philip K. Dick) |
Airbag Jacket A jacket or coverall with inflatable air bags throughout for protection against impact.
(From Snow Crash [1992] by Neal Stephenson) |
Breathing Dresses A special suit and apparatus for survival on the surface of the Moon.
(From A Honeymoon In Space [1901] by George Griffith) |
Reporting Machine A robotic roving reporter.
(From The Simulacra [1964] by Philip K. Dick) |
Pod-Chair A living chair, grown by the Iszc to perform its function.
(From The Houses of Iszm [1954] by Jack Vance) |
Visual Report Screen A device that allows a robot nanny to let the owners view what the robot sees from a remote location.
(From Nanny [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
Needles (Chocolate and Vanilla) Inflated towers reaching 20 miles out of Earth's atmosphere.
(From Sundiver [1979] by David Brin) |
Commercial Fly An autonomous, fly-sized manufactured creature that presents commercial advertisements.
(From The Simulacra [1964] by Philip K. Dick) |
Adam Selene A computer generates a human avatar for itself.
(From The Moon is a Harsh Mistress [1966] by Robert Heinlein) |
Eyes Flying remote-operated surveillance drones.
(From This Moment of the Storm [1966] by Roger Zelazny) |
Auto-Scan Automated control of remote surveillance drones.
(From This Moment of the Storm [1966] by Roger Zelazny) |
Juvenile A robot designed to sneak around and spy on people.
(From The Man Who Japed [1956] by Philip K. Dick) |
Multivac A computer with millions of facts.
(From Franchise [1955] by Isaac Asimov) |
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