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| Pocket Display Projector A pocketsized projector capable of displaying high resolution images so they can be viewed by a group of people. (From The Anome [1971] by Jack Vance) |
| Smart Contact Lenses Contact lenses that have a built-in computer display. (From Fast Times At Fairmont High [2001] by Vernor Vinge) |
| News Roundup A device that presents brief story outlines, any of which can be chosen to find details. (From Beyond This Horizon [1942] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Fold Box A chest that is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. (From Glory Road [1963] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Automated Restaurant Food is prepared and served entirely automatically. (From A Princess of Mars [1912] by Edgar Rice Burroughs) |
| Neuroinduction Field Keeps the patient still without the use of cumbersome restraints or drugs. (From Starfish [1999] by Peter Watts) |
| Maelstrom A description of the next generation Internet (From Maelstrom [2002] by Peter Watts) |
| Manna A software program that autonomously manages restaurants or other service industry businesses. (From Manna [2002] by Marshall Brain) |
| Capillotomer An automatic shaving machine (From Beyond This Horizon [1942] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Control Natural A person who is allowed to have an unmodified genetic makeup. (From Beyond This Horizon [1942] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Homorium A kind of nursery that could bring a human being to maturity in a single year. (From The Last Men [1934] by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.) |
| Meteor-Spotting Radar A device to warn spacecraft of oncoming meteors. (From Recoil [1943] by George O. Smith) |
| Sound-Transposing Machine A device that scans a printed page and reads it out loud. (From The Lost Language [1934] by David H. Keller) |
| Randominoes Dominoes that randomly generate new numbers. (From Nymphomation [2000] by Jeff Noon) |
| Telepomp (Matter Transmission) A device that transmitted matter from one place to another. (From The Man Without a Body [1877] by Edward Page Mitchell) |
| Granton Motor Spacecraft propulsion system based on gravital radiation. (From Into the Meteorite Orbit [1933] by Frank K. Kelly) |
| Vibra-Transmitter (Teleportation) An early use of the notion of matter transmission. (From Into the Meteorite Orbit [1933] by Frank K. Kelly) |
| Electric Machine Gun (Railgun) A device that accelerates small projectiles magnetically using a strong electric current. (From The Battery of Hate [1933] by John W. Campbell) |
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