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Technovelgy
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Hyperbolic Solenoid Device that creates and manipulates magnetic fields.
(From The Exhalted [1940] by L. Sprague de Camp) |
Leaf Screens Bioform displays grown from plants offering flat surfaces - like leaves.
(From Sparrowhawk [1990] by Thomas A. Easton) |
Bioform House A house grown from a bioengineered plant.
(From Sparrowhawk [1990] by Thomas A. Easton) |
Focusing Psychoactive microbe improves the attention-focusing ability of those infected.
(From A Deepness in the Sky [1999] by Vernor Vinge) |
Methuen Treatment Injections that increase intelligence.
(From The Exhalted [1940] by L. Sprague de Camp) |
Slow Glass Rod A transparent glass rod that makes light travel so slowly that it can trap light within its depths.
(From The Exhalted [1940] by L. Sprague de Camp) |
Telelubricator Makes any surface or substance perfectly frictionless.
(From The Exhalted [1940] by L. Sprague de Camp) |
General Bodies Tortoise A passenger vehicle genetically engineered from tortoise DNA and controlled by implanted electronics.
(From Sparrowhawk [1990] by Thomas A. Easton) |
Roachster A genetically-engineered vehicle based on arthropod DNA; uses implanted control structures.
(From Sparrowhawk [1990] by Thomas A. Easton) |
Unichapel (Robotic Confession Booth) Automated religious confessional with monotone, programmed responses.
(From THX 1138 [1970] by George Lucas) |
Transdress A transparent dress upon which thousands of patterns may be projected.
(From The California Voodoo Game [1992] by Larry Niven (w/S. Barnes)) |
Fuligin A material the color of which is blacker than black.
(From The Shadow of the Torturer [1980] by Gene Wolfe) |
DreamTime Scleral Contact Lenses Full-size contact lenses that can provide an augmented reality view.
(From The California Voodoo Game [1992] by Larry Niven (w/S. Barnes)) |
Extreme Black A material so absolutely black that it absorbed all incident light.
(From Restaurant at the End of the Universe [1980] by Douglas Adams) |
Robot Surgeon An autonomous robotic surgeon.
(From The Bicentennial Man [1976] by Isaac Asimov) |
Insosuit A space suit specially designed to resist extreme heat.
(From Runaround [1942] by Isaac Asimov) |
Soft Speaker A device that sends a tightly-controlled beam of sound.
(From The Exhalted [1940] by L. Sprague de Camp) |
Rhetorizer A computerized assistant for writers.
(From The Penultimate Truth [1964] by Philip K. Dick) |
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