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| 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) |
| Sandsnork A device like a snorkel that would provide air to a tent buried by a sand storm. (From Dune [1965] by Frank Herbert) |
| Rhennius Machine Device of alien manufacture, which will reverse, or turn inside out, any object passed through its mobilator. (From Doorways in the Sand [1976] by Roger Zelazny) |
| Transcriber A automated transcriptionist - a machine which perfectly translates human speech into words on paper. (From Second Foundation [1953] by Isaac Asimov) |
| Uniflesh A type of artificial skin and underlying flesh. (From The Dosadi Experiment [1977] by Frank Herbert) |
| Bedog A sentient creature designed to be a bed. (From The Dosadi Experiment [1977] by Frank Herbert) |
| Odalarm An alarm clock that awakens the sleeper with a selected odor. (From The Dosadi Experiment [1977] by Frank Herbert) |
| Zoo Fences Caustic water moat (From The Dosadi Experiment [1977] by Frank Herbert) |
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