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| 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 Calling the Empress [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) |
| Dimensoscope A telescope for peering into other dimensions. (From The Fifth-Dimension Catapult [1931] by Murray Leinster) |
| Helio-Beryllium Unusual alloy combines a metal and a gas. (From Out Around Rigel [1931] by Robert H. Wilson) |
| Photoelectric Course Warning A means of keeping a spaceship on course using a selected star and a photoelectric cell. (From Out Around Rigel [1931] by Robert H. Wilson) |
| Sniffer Robot A small robot that gathers odors from a crime scene for analysis. (From Runaway [1985] by Michael Crichton) |
| Steel Tentacle Flexible robotic steel limbs that can both support a vehicle and grasp objects. (From The War of the Worlds [1898] by H.G. Wells) |
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