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| CCD Eyes Electronic eyes using charged-coupled devices provide a wide variety of functions. (From Stone Lives [1985] by Paul Di Filippo) |
| Subdermal Microchannels A means of personal adornment; think of day glow tattoos. (From Stone Lives [1985] by Paul Di Filippo) |
| Life Blanket Sentient moss which, when draped over the shoulders of a human being, becomes fully self-aware, providing valuable services. (From Ogre [1944] by Clifford Simak) |
| Virtual World Theft A method of stealing or reassigning ownership to items of value in virtual worlds. (From Halting State [2007] by Charles Stross) |
| Eternity Drug A medication that puts a person into a deep hibernation-like sleep for decades at a time. (From Far Centaurus [1944] by A.E. van Vogt) |
| Automatic Massager An autonomous massage machine with robotic arms and hands. (From Far Centaurus [1944] by A.E. van Vogt) |
| Luggage A trunk made from sapient pearwood. (From The Color of Magic [1983] by Terry Pratchett) |
| Relations with Extraterrestrial Life Instructions to earth citizens on how to behave when encountering alien civilizations. (From Ogre [1944] by Clifford Simak) |
| Wango Wave Energy surge that accompanies the entrance into, and exit from, overdrive outside of normal space. (From Propagandist [1947] by Murray Leinster) |
| Food Brick Appropriate manufactured food for any species. (From Ringworld [1970] by Larry Niven) |
| Mnemotropin A drug to improve the creation of long-term memories. (From Stone Lives [1985] by Paul Di Filippo) |
| Hyperspace A realm or parallel universe in which it may be possible to travel much faster than light. (From The Statement of Archibald Swayne [1924] by Burton Peter Thom) |
| Emergency Treatment Tank (Chamber) A fully enclosed regeneration device. (From Agent of Vega [1949] by James Schmitz) |
| Synthetigrav General term for any of the fields produced by synthetic gravity devices. (From Agent of Vega [1949] by James Schmitz) |
| Asteroid Mining Robot An autonomous robot able to effectively mine asteroids. (From Catch That Rabbit [1944] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Robot Voice A voice box for a robot that is an analog of the human voice system. (From Catch That Rabbit [1944] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Robot Team A set of robots, with the leader able to coordinate the activities of less intelligent subsidiary robots. (From Catch That Rabbit [1944] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Meat Puppet A person with a neural cut out chip; the chip allows computer software to completely control their actions. (From Neuromancer [1984] by William Gibson) |
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