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| Datacase A portable suitcase, containing useful electronics for the mobile business-person. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| Space Liner A large, passenger-carrying space ship. (From On Board the Martian Liner [1931] by Miles J. Breuer) |
| Metaverse A virtual universe. (From Snow Crash [1992] by Neal Stephenson) |
| House Records The vast archival information management system of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood, covering millennia. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| Ixian Probe A device that looks at brain tissue so carefully that memories can be seen. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| Agony Box A device for causing non-lethal, non-injuring pain by nerve induction. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| Nullentropy Bin A compartment in which entropy was halted. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| No-Globe A large spherical living space that is concealed by special Ixian technology, making it impossible to detect by any known probe. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| Life-shield Blanket A device that is capable of shielding the person using it against ordinary forms of detecting living beings. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| Pulse-Timer A watch that uses your visual cortex for a read-out device. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| No-Ship A ship that uses an Ixian field to be effectively invisible. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| Shere Destroys cells so that memory cannot be deduced from the cells of the person even in death. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| Time Machine A device allowing the rider to move freely in the temporal dimension, just as we ordinarily do in the two physical dimensions normal to gravity. (From The Time Machine [1895] by H.G. Wells) |
| Replicant An android; an artificial human being. (From Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [1968] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Andy A slang term for "android" - an artificially created humanoid being. (From Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [1968] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Odorophonics A system capable of reproducing selected scents capable of fooling the human nervous system. (From The Illustrated Man [1951] by Ray Bradbury) |
| Mobile Lab (From 2001: A Space Odyssey [1968] by Arthur C. Clarke) |
| Shigawire A very fine wire, used as a recording medium (among other things). (From Dune [1965] by Frank Herbert) |
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