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| Radiant Power Receptor (DeKalbs) A device which received and used energy transmitted from a station or satellite. (From Waldo [1942] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Finger Watch A ring that contains a working timepiece and a display. (From Key Decision [1951] by H.B. Fyfe) |
| Audio Relay A communication device implanted behind the ear; also used as an alarm for wake-up calls. (From The Puppet Masters [1951] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Courtarena A combination of a court of law, and an arena of combat, in which every participant could be called out and executed under legal circumstances. (From The Tactful Saboteur [1964] by Frank Herbert) |
| Personality Simulator A device which, when fed enough data about a person, simulated their personality allowing the user to predict behavior in stated circumstances. (From The Dosadi Experiment [1977] by Frank Herbert) |
| Tracked Vehicle A heavily armored vehicle, typical of those in use, with a remarkable agility. (From The Dosadi Experiment [1977] by Frank Herbert) |
| Swimming Tubes Used to connect buildings for use by amphibious species. (From The Dosadi Experiment [1977] by Frank Herbert) |
| Armored Clothing Ordinary apparel that contained both armor and muscle amplification devices. (From The Dosadi Experiment [1977] by Frank Herbert) |
| Grapple Tracks A means of automating the process of parking and releasing passenger vehicles from a parking garage. (From The Dosadi Experiment [1977] by Frank Herbert) |
| Skitter A small passenger vehicle, for two beings, which uses a steering bar. It is parked in a structure that parks and releases vehicles automatically. (From The Dosadi Experiment [1977] by Frank Herbert) |
| Taprisiot Monitor Bead A small bead to be swallowed that allowed the thoughts of a person to be transmitted and recorded during a specified interval. (From The Dosadi Experiment [1977] by Frank Herbert) |
| Daily Schedule (DS) The DS was an artificially intelligent day planner, a schedule keeper with voice recognition features; it also talked back when necessary. (From The Dosadi Experiment [1977] by Frank Herbert) |
| Caleban Contact A form of telepathy based on the use of unimaginably enormous amounts of energy. (From The Dosadi Experiment [1977] by Frank Herbert) |
| Veridicator A device that measured physiologic responses (biometric data) and translated it to a set of colors that unerringly reported whether or not the measured person was telling the truth. (From Little Fuzzy [1962] by H. Beam Piper) |
| Selector Card Pneumatic delivery of book films by using a mechanical form of data storage; selector cards - probably punch cards. (From The Puppet Masters [1951] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Dog Suit A disguise worn by an alien detective, allowing him to look just like a domestic canine. (From Doorways in the Sand [1976] by Roger Zelazny) |
| Microde A tailored virus, that infects the selected person, and passes on whatever characteristics have been implanted in the virus. (From Armed Memory [1995] by Jim Smith) |
| Decorative Implant Small devices that can be implanted subcutaneously in the body and then controlled consciously. (From Babel-17 [1966] by Samuel R. Delany) |
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