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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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