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Technovelgy
(Most Recent Additions - 4250 Total)
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Tongueprint Verification A device that verifies the unique print of the tongue against a a database for identification purposes.
(From Fleet of Worlds [2007] by Larry Niven (w/E.M. Lerner)) |
Solar Energy Beam A solar energy plant on Mercury provides power for projects all over the solar system.
(From Masquerade [1941] by Clifford Simak) |
Cardioplate A device that could take seconds or minutes off your life, one beat at a time (or all at once).
(From 'Repent Harlequin' Said the Ticktockman [1965] by Harlan Ellison) |
Plastirobe A dress that varies in opacity by distance.
(From Sales Pitch [1954] by Philip K. Dick) |
Book of the Kalends The ever-changing book without a title; the documented history of a world.
(From Galactic Pot-Healer [1969] by Philip K. Dick) |
SSA Machine A machine that compares two people for compatibility; it sees sub specie aeternitatis, literally 'under the aspect of eternity' or outside of time.
(From Galactic Pot-Healer [1969] by Philip K. Dick) |
High-Voltage Cuffs Metallic shirt-sleeve cuffs capable of carrying a charge.
(From Snow Crash [1992] by Neal Stephenson) |
Visual Ad An advertisement that forces its way directly into the brain of the viewer.
(From Sales Pitch [1954] by Philip K. Dick) |
Commute Ship Spacecraft used for traversing daily grind between Earth and the planet you work on.
(From Sales Pitch [1954] by Philip K. Dick) |
Retinal Vid-Screen A tiny display surgically implanted directly in the retina of the eye.
(From Sales Pitch [1954] by Philip K. Dick) |
Sales Robot (Robot Salesman) Fully automated robots giving untiring, incessant sales pitches to customers.
(From Sales Pitch [1954] by Philip K. Dick) |
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) |
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