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Flight Stick A personal flying vehicle, stripped down to the basics.
(From The Flight of the Horse [1969] by Larry Niven) |
Membrane Balloon Helmet A selectively permeable membrane worn as a helmet.
(From The Flight of the Horse [1969] by Larry Niven) |
Orphids Nanomachines replicate theselves from dust - and cover the Earth.
(From Postsingular [2007] by Rudy Rucker) |
Plastic Igloo A heavy plastic shelter for use in airless environments.
(From Love Among The Robots [1946] by Emmett McDowell) |
Dormancy Switch Essential device 'switches off' your cyborg animal, causing it to quickly drop off to sleep.
(From Sparrowhawk [1990] by Thomas A. Easton) |
Hanky Bush A plant with leaves grown to resemble common, multipurpose tissues.
(From Sparrowhawk [1990] by Thomas A. Easton) |
Reality Graphics One-stop design - the final design is the object.
(From A Fire Upon The Deep [1992] by Vernor Vinge) |
Dumb Matter Ordinary matter, with no nano-value added.
(From Accelerando [2005] by Charles Stross) |
Computronium Intelligent matter; nanocomputing processors masquerading as ordinary material.
(From Accelerando [2005] by Charles Stross) |
Blast Rifle A gun that creates a short-range energy blast.
(From Exiles of the Stratosphere [1937] by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.) |
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) |
Roachster A genetically-engineered vehicle based on arthropod DNA; uses implanted control structures.
(From Sparrowhawk [1990] by Thomas A. Easton) |
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