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| Weightless Work Area A small workspace within which there is no gravitational pull. (From Galactic Pot-Healer [1969] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Geriatric Rooming-House An apartment building with rooms built especially with the very senior citizen in mind. (From Galactic Pot-Healer [1969] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Padre Booth Device that provides religious aid and comfort on demand. (From Galactic Pot-Healer [1969] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Spray-Foam Blouse Clothing that is sprayed on fresh. (From Galactic Pot-Healer [1969] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Rapid-Transit Hover Blimp Public transportation for a paranoid age. (From Galactic Pot-Healer [1969] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Deviatoscope A device that registered how much your course diverged from what you intended. (From The Emperor of the Stars [1931] by Nat Schachner (w. AL Zagat)) |
| Psycho-Lease Encephalic Gadget A device that provided the conviction that a faked scene was, in fact, real. (From Galactic Pot-Healer [1969] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Ersatz Window A display device used in a room without an actual view of the outside; it shows a projection of a real scene. (From Galactic Pot-Healer [1969] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Radiation Garment Clothing worn by ordinary citizens to reduce the risk of radiation exposure. (From Waldo [1942] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Voice-Changing Bowtie Special device allows wearer to take on the voice of another person at will. (From Case Closed (Detective Conan) [1994] by Gosho Aoyama) |
| Tracing Glasses Locate criminals by using glasses to pick up signals from special transmitters. (From Case Closed (Detective Conan) [1994] by Gosho Aoyama) |
| Annihilator Beam A deadly ray that literally dissolved matter! (From The Conquest of Gola [1931] by L.F. Stone) |
| Emergency Corrective Rockets Used when you seem to be off-course in your spaceship. (From The Emperor of the Stars [1931] by Nat Schachner (w. AL Zagat)) |
| Spider Tripod Robot Three-legged alien robot. (From Rendezvous With Rama [1972] by Arthur C. Clarke) |
| Thought Screen A material screen that is worn by the user, upon which are projected the mental images of the user. (From The Emperor of the Stars [1931] by Nat Schachner (w. AL Zagat)) |
| Transparent Spherical Ship A huge sphere of quartz housing a platform for space use. (From The Emperor of the Stars [1931] by Nat Schachner (w. AL Zagat)) |
| Atmosphere Tester A device used to test the composition of a sample of the atmosphere on another planet, to see if it is breathable by humans. (From The Emperor of the Stars [1931] by Nat Schachner (w. AL Zagat)) |
| Zero-Ray Inflicts a fatal frostbite on living tissue. (From An Adventure in Futurity [1931] by Clark Ashton Smith) |
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