Glossary of Science Fiction Ideas and Inventions
( 1854 Inventions Available)

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Device Name Book/Story Author Date
Nanny Robot - child-care robot with punch Nanny Dick  1955
Nanofax - fax 3D objects, not flat ones All Tomorrow's Parties Gibson  1999
Nanomachine Swarm (Black Cloud) - tiny machines work together The Invincible Lem  1954
Nanotech Buildings - built with fibers Idoru Gibson  1996
Napcap - get a good night's sleep Saturn's Race Niven  2000
Napcap Rental Facility - snooze at will Saturn's Race Niven  2000
Nautilus - Captain Nemo's ride 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Verne  1875
Navicloud Custom Debinder Rainbows End Vinge  2006
N-e (Needle-eyeification) Weapon - absolute positioning precision The Zap Gun Dick  1965
Near-Space Solar Energy Collectors Star Maker Stapledon  1937
Neck Radio Our Friends From Frolix 8 Dick  1970
Needle Gun Slacker's Paradise Jameson  1941
Needle Pipe - needle gun Beyond the Stars Cummings  1928
Needlecast - tightbeam transmission of being Altered Carbon Morgan  2003
Needle-Gun Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter Asimov  1957
Needles (Chocolate and Vanilla) Sundiver Brin  1979
Neoterics - genius on tap Microcosmic God Sturgeon  1941
Neotopological Metaeuclidean Adjacency - just around the corner The Hole in the Hole Bisson  1994
Netwar - communications warfare Distraction Sterling  1998
Network Monitoring Detection - why the slowdown? The Dosadi Experiment Herbert  1977
Networked Telephone Answering Machine Men Like Gods Wells  1923
Networked World When the Sleeper Wakes Wells  1899
Neural Cut Out Chip - makes a meat puppet Neuromancer Gibson  1984
Neuroinduction Field Starfish Watts  1999
Neuro-netsukes - tiny personality construct Rim Besher  1994
Neuronic Control Apparatus - put your experience in reverse Masson's Secret Gallun  1939
Neuronic Receptor-Transmitter Masson's Secret Gallun  1939
Neuronic Whip - it delivers pain The Stars, Like Dust Asimov  1951
Neutron Disruption Blaster The Complete Paratime Piper  1951
News Clown - they're all the rage Stand-By Dick  1963
News Roundup - better than Tivo Beyond This Horizon Heinlein  1942
Newsbox (News-Receptor) - better than Google news plus Tivo Methuselah's Children Heinlein  1941
Newspad - flat panel news display 2001: A Space Odyssey Clarke  1968
Newstaper Gear Flash Crowd Niven  1972
Nexus-6 Brain Unit - meet my friend Roy Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dick  1968
Nightmask Hellstrom's Hive Herbert  1972
Nikon Eyes - cultivated eyes Neuromancer Gibson  1984
No-Globe Heretics of Dune Herbert  1984
Nose Gun Arm of the Law Harrison  1958
No-Ship Heretics of Dune Herbert  1984
Nullboxing Bubble Streetlethal Barnes  1983
Nullentropy Bin - world's best salad crisper Heretics of Dune Herbert  1984
Nutri-Matic - not quite tea The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams  1979

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AirRobot Micro-UAV 'Fairies' In Shakespeare Play
re: Various
(11/19/2009)

Paralysis Ray Uses Photocontrolled Molecular Switch
re: Arthur K. Barnes
(11/19/2009)

Brine Wells May Swallow Towns
re: Sigizmund Krzhizhanowsky
(11/18/2009)

Will In-Vitro Meat Change Our Lives?
re: H. Beam Piper
(11/18/2009)

Walky iPhone Finger Gesture Robot Controller
re: Douglas Adams
(11/17/2009)

OnStar Stolen Vehicle Slowdown Foils Carjacker
re: Keith Laumer
(11/17/2009)

Robot Martial Arts Videos
re: Roger Zelazny
(11/16/2009)

Interactive TV Patent From Sony
re: Ray Bradbury
(11/15/2009)

Smart Contact Lens With Power Harvesting Circuits
re: Niven And Barnes
(11/15/2009)

'Significant Amount' Of Lunar Water Found
re: Robert Heinlein
(11/14/2009)

FOXP2 Tweak Yields Planet Of The Apes?
re: Various
(11/14/2009)

Lev, Theremin-Playing Robot
re: Arthur C. Clarke
(11/13/2009)

XT-1 Micro Mouse With Blazing Speed
re: Maurice A. Hugi
(11/13/2009)

Escape Pods, Refuge Of ISS Astronauts From Space Junk
re: George Lucas
(11/12/2009)

Steerable Bowling Ball Is A Cheesy Spherical Robot
re: Various
(11/11/2009)

Bio-Mechanics And Micro-Robotic Flight
re: Raymond Z. Gallun
(11/11/2009)

Farming Detroit Like Trantor
re: Isaac Asimov
(11/11/2009)

Smarter Rats Via Transgenic Over-Expression Of NR2B Gene
re: Daniel Keyes
(11/10/2009)

Sleepbox Like Niven's Napcap
re: Larry Niven
(11/10/2009)

555 KUBIK - If A House Was Dreaming
re: J.G. Ballard
(11/6/2009)

Spray-On Skin For Burns From ReCell Kit
re: Philip K. Dick
(11/6/2009)

Gregory Benford On Artificial Biological Selection for Longevity
re: Gregory Benford
(11/5/2009)

Overwhelming Enemy Cognitive Abilities
re: Randall Garrett
(11/5/2009)

Star Trek Replicator For Space Station?
re: Gene Roddenberry
(11/5/2009)

 

 

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