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Tru-Mem Systems Organic process of recalling personal events.
(From We Can Remember It For You Wholesale [1966] by Philip K. Dick) |
Homeostatic Newspaper An autonomous news-gathering and publishing entity; abbreviated as homeopape.
(From If There Were No Benny Cemoli [1953] by Philip K. Dick) |
Data Tiles Transparent panes that contain data and programs.
(From Minority Report (Movie) [2002] by Steven Spielberg) |
Wakeshot An injection designed to bring a person out of sleep to full wakefulness.
(From Dune [1965] by Frank Herbert) |
Sleep Surrogate Pharmaceutical designed to make up for lost sleep.
(From Methuselah's Children [1941] by Robert Heinlein) |
Robot Gardener An autonomous gardening robot, taking care of plants in parks or fields.
(From War Veteran [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
Robot Surgeon-Hand A skilled surgical robot that attaches at the end of the surgeon's arm.
(From War Veteran [1955] by Philip K. Dick) |
Toy Testing Dummy A child-sized device used to test suspect toys.
(From War Game [1959] by Philip K. Dick) |
Memo-Voice Paper memos that read themselves out loud.
(From War Game [1959] by Philip K. Dick) |
Meteorometer A device that warned space ships in flight about oncoming meteors.
(From Crashing Suns [1928] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Pain Ray Creates pain by nerve induction.
(From Crashing Suns [1928] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Telechart An interactive metal plate upon which were displayed celestial objects for interstellar navigation.
(From Crashing Suns [1928] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Heat Transmitter Device which captures solar energy close to the source and then beams it in concentrated form to outer planets.
(From Crashing Suns [1928] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Powered artificial exoskeleton A robotic device designed to support someone too weak to comfortably move in high gravity.
(From Between Planets [1951] by Robert Heinlein) |
Spinning Pressurized Drum Put a spin on just a part of a space station.
(From Between Planets [1951] by Robert Heinlein) |
Chemotactic Artificial Jellyfish Artificial device modeled on jellyfish capable of seeking specific components of liquid.
(From Big Jelly [1994] by Rudy Rucker (w/B. Sterling)) |
Clothing Size Scanner A device that scanned a living person to determine clothing sizes.
(From Sagramanda [2006] by Alan Dean Foster) |
Mobile Advertisements Advertisements presented in mid-air in public spaces.
(From Sagramanda [2006] by Alan Dean Foster) |
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