 |
Fresh
Technovelgy (Most Recent Additions - 3937 Total) |
| Atomic Machine A device that shrinks and expands its wearer. (From The Man from the Atom [1926] by G. Peyton Wertenbaker) |
| Robots Refuse To Serve Man When robots evolve their own perspectives, and ultimately refuse to act as servants to human beings. (From The Mentanicals [1934] by Francis Flagg) |
| Chronoscope A device used to see into specific internals of time. (From Elimination [1936] by John W. Campbell) |
| Impermite A substance that is impervious to penetration. (From Redmask of the Outlands [1934] by Nat Schachner) |
| Polarized Window Rather than curtains, use the window to control the light. (From The Houses of Iszm [1954] by Jack Vance) |
| Finger Jet Bath The ultimate in luxury tubs. (From The Houses of Iszm [1954] by Jack Vance) |
| One-Man Car A small transport vehicle. (From The Houses of Iszm [1954] by Jack Vance) |
| Public Vehicle Tube Underground transportation tubes. (From The Houses of Iszm [1954] by Jack Vance) |
| Fyunch(click) An alien assigned to become an expert in just one person. (From The Mote in God's Eye [1974] by Larry Niven (w/J. Pournelle)) |
| Thought Pattern Divination Attempting to construct the thoughts of a person by imitating their actions. (From The Houses of Iszm [1954] by Jack Vance) |
| Smarter People Having Fewer Children The original argument that less suitable human pairs are having proportionally more children. (From The Marching Morons [1951] by C.M. Kornbluth) |
| Coffee Cube Concentrated coffee that boils itself! (From The Marching Morons [1951] by C.M. Kornbluth) |
| Rocket-Polo Polo played with rocket-powered craft. (From Ra For The Rajah [1938] by John Victor Peterson) |
| Helicoptomic A hovering craft used by referees in rocket polo. (From Ra For The Rajah [1938] by John Victor Peterson) |
| Gyrotomic A small gyrostabilized hovercraft. (From Ra For The Rajah [1938] by John Victor Peterson) |
| Skull Alarm Implanted wakeup call. (From Millennium [1983] by John Varley) |
| Squeaker Used to search out radium in asteroids. (From Beast of Space [1941] by F.E. Hardart) |
| Frictionless Toilet A toilet bowl that does not require water, because its surface is frictionless. (From The Mote in God's Eye [1974] by Larry Niven (w/J. Pournelle)) |
Show
me more (
3937 total) |
