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| 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) |
| Minimic Film Very fine message medium. (From Dune [1965] by Frank Herbert) |
| Jubba Cloak An all-purpose garment in common use on Arrakis (From Dune [1965] by Frank Herbert) |
| Paracompass A very specialized compass that makes use of local magnetic anomalies. (From Dune [1965] by Frank Herbert) |
| Glowglobe Floating spherical light bulb with organic energy source. (From Dune [1965] by Frank Herbert) |
| HAL 9000 The canonical example of an artificially intelligent computer. (From 2001: A Space Odyssey [1968] by Arthur C. Clarke) |
| Hibernaculum A small, self-contained chamber in which a person could endure months of enforced sleep. (From 2001: A Space Odyssey [1968] by Arthur C. Clarke) |
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