Glossary of Science Fiction Ideas and Inventions

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

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Device Name	Book/Story	Author	Date
Padloid - National Enquirer on your tablet PC	Steel Beach	Varley	1992
Padre Booth	Galactic Pot-Healer	Dick	1969
Paid Avoidance Zone - primitive on purpose	The Shockwave Rider	Brunner	1975
Pain Box - testing for humans	Dune	Herbert	1965
Pain-Producer	Crashing Suns	Hamilton	1928
Palm Flower	Logan's Run	Nolan (w/G.C. Johnson)	1967
Palm Lock - uses more than a fingerprint	Dune	Herbert	1965
Palm Plate - your hand is the key	The Mechanical Monarch	Tubb	1958
Palm Scan - the big print	All Tomorrow's Parties	Gibson	1999
Panatrope - mutation for survival	Surface Tension	Blish	1952
Paper Steel	Robur-the-Conqueror	Verne	1866
Para-Beam - light of paralysis	The Mechanical Monarch	Tubb	1958
Paracompass - detects local magnetic anomalies	Dune	Herbert	1965
Parallel Universe	Men Like Gods	Wells	1923
Paralysis Bomb	If This Goes On...	Heinlein	1940
Paralysis Ray - very early use	Satellite Five	Barnes	1938
Paralyzing Ray - early use	Brigands of the Moon	Cummings	1931
ParanoidLinux	Little Brother	Doctorow	2008
Parastatics	Return from the Stars	Lem	1961
Parenthood Lottery	Super-Toys Last All Summer Long	Aldiss	1969
Parking Orbit - take the gig down	Methuselah's Children	Heinlein	1941
Parlor Wall (TV Parlor) - original big screen TV	Fahrenheit 451	Bradbury	1953
Pedomotive - power stilts	The Diamond Age	Stephenson	1995
Peeper - unlock your inner dreams	Shadow World	Simak	1957
Pencil Heat Ray - narrow beam	Brigands of the Moon	Cummings	1931
Penfield Wave Transmitter - an emotional brain remote control	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Dick	1968
Pentavalent Nitrogen - most powerful chemical explosive.	Space Hounds of IPC	Smith	1931
People-Mover	Wetware	Rucker	1988
People-Sorter - catalog them quickly	Millenium	Varley	1983
Perky Pat Layout - playset for grownups	The Days of Perky Pat	Dick	1963
Permanent Skywriting	Soap Opera	Nelson	1953
Personal Cache - a digital safety deposit box	Earth	Brin	1990
Personal Force-Shield - earliest mention?	Foundation	Asimov	1951
Personal Interest Profile (PIP) - invention of Google Alerts	The Fountains of Paradise	Clarke	1978
Personal Smelter - make your own ingot	The Shockwave Rider	Brunner	1975
Personality Death - you're dead to yourself	Robot Justice	Harrison	1959
Personality Simulator - game your office politics	The Dosadi Experiment	Herbert	1977
Personalized Fashion Display	Bill the Galactic Hero	Harrison	1965
Personalized News	Ralph 124c 41 +	Gernsback	1911
Phantoscope (phenomenoscope) - see it all	The Diamond Age	Stephenson	1995
Phased Acoustical Array - hear it all	The Diamond Age	Stephenson	1995
Philips Squeeze Gun	Altered Carbon	Morgan	2003
Phonotelephote - earliest reference to videophone	In the Year 2889	Verne	1889
Photoelectric Course Warning - aid to spaceship pilots	Out Around Rigel	Wilson	1931
Photoelectric Telescope (Photoelectric Eyes) - astronomical pictures produced automatically	The Cometeers	Williamson	1936
Photomnemonic Tablet - blank recording slate	Anathem	Stephenson	2008
Photonomous - stay anon on Flickr	Little Brother	Doctorow	2008
Photosensitive Pigment	Cry Hope, Cry Fury!	Ballard	1966
Photo-Voltaic Robes	Snow in the Desert	Asher	2002
Pigoon - transgenic pig	Oryx and Crake	Atwood	2003
Planck Juice - pre-quark beverage	Master of Space and Time	Rucker	1984
Planetary Engineering	The Cometeers	Williamson	1936
Planetary Propulsion-Blasts - moving a planet	Thundering Worlds	Hamilton	1934
Planet-Buster Bomb - destroy a planet	Testing	Ferrat	1956
Planet-Smasher	Propagandist	Leinster	1947
Plasteel - tough metal for tough times	Dune	Herbert	1965
Plastex - self-healing material	The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista	Ballard	1962
Plastic Igloo - with an airlock	Love Among The Robots	McDowell	1946
Plastic-Eating Bacteria - that's the good news	The Andromeda Strain	Crichton	1969
Plastirobe - variations in opacity	Sales Pitch	Dick	1954
Platinum Alloy Disc - first CD or DVD?	Triplanetary	Smith	1934
Pneumatic Bumpers	The Brain Pirates	Campbell	1938
Pocket Computer - a PDA	The Mote in God's Eye	Niven (w/J. Pournelle)	1974
Pocket Display Projector - a nano-projector	The Anome	Vance	1971
Pocket Dome - handy space tent	Chindi	McDevitt	2002
Pocket Nucleo-Bulb - better than those LED flashlights	Foundation	Asimov	1951
Pocket Phone (or pocketphone) - invention of the cell phone	Assignment in Eternity	Heinlein	1953
Pocket-Sized Ad-Blocker	Sagramanda	Foster	2006
Pod-Chair	The Houses of Iszm	Vance	1954
Poison Snooper - be careful, my Duke	Dune	Herbert	1965
Poison Tongue Dart - just squeeze	The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch	Dick	1965
Poison-Bearing Invisible Glove - let's shake on it	Lies, Inc.	Dick	1964
Polawindow - change lighting instantly	The Godmakers	Herbert	1972
Police Control-Override	A Plague of Demons	Laumer	1965
Police Robot - a rookie cop bot	Arm of the Law	Harrison	1958
Police Sketch Artist Software - pc-based police art	Runaway	Crichton	1985
Polycarbon Exo - a military exoskeleton	Mona Lisa Overdrive	Gibson	1988
Polycarbon Phone Screen	Count Zero	Gibson	1986
Poppins - Julie Andrews android	Kiln People	Brin	2002
Portable Ident-Plate - quick prints	Earth	Brin	1990
Portable Telephone - early reference	Space Cadet	Heinlein	1948
Portal	True Names	Vinge	1981
Positronic Brain - many connections	Reason	Asimov	1941
Post Office - special package delivery	Millenium	Varley	1983
Post-Crime - you're still a criminal	The Minority Report	Dick	1956
Poster TV - flattest of flat screen TVs	A World Out of Time	Niven	1976
Power Holster	Deathworld	Harrison	1960
Powered Armor (or Powered Suit) - military exoskeleton	Starship Troopers	Heinlein	1959
Powered artificial exoskeleton	Between Planets	Heinlein	1951
Powered Suit with Trauma Maintenance	The Forever War	Haldeman	1974
Power-Wagon - legless beast of burden	The Last Castle	Vance	1967
Pray-Machine - megawatts of prayer	Lord of Light	Zelazny	1967
Pray-o-Mat - coin-based religion	Lord of Light	Zelazny	1967
Precog - see the future	The Minority Report	Dick	1956
Precog (v) - I see you	Police Operation	Piper	1948
Precrime Analytical Wing - precogs babble, machines tabulate	The Minority Report	Dick	1956
Predator Wrist Display	Predator	McTieman	1987
Predictions Registry - if you're sure	Earth	Brin	1990
Preserving Machine	The Preserving Machine	Dick	1953
Pressor (Pressor Beam) - push not pull	Space Hounds of IPC	Smith	1931
Pressor Field	The Forever War	Haldeman	1974
Pressure-Suit	Skylark of Space	Smith	1928
Prethink - seeing the future	The Golden Man	Dick	1954
Prime Radiant - the ultimate conference projector	Second Foundation	Asimov	1953
Prism Window - better plane window	The Space Merchants	Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth)	1952
Private Space Cruiser	Crashing Suns	Hamilton	1928
Probability Time Wave Tube	Elimination	Campbell	1936
Probe Screen Hood - block the penetration of the mind	The Hood Maker ('Immunity')	Dick	1955
Procreative Stump	Hellstrom's Hive	Herbert	1972
Profile Sniffers - sifting the web	Distraction	Sterling	1998
Project X	Atlas Shrugged	Rand	1957
Projectile-Vehicle - Verne's spacecraft	From the Earth to the Moon	Verne	1867
Projection - be in two places at once	The Computer Connection	Bester	1974
Projection Commercials - 3D advertisements	The Computer Connection	Bester	1974
Projection Rig - envy of presenters	Mona Lisa Overdrive	Gibson	1988
Proselytizing Robot	Cities in Flight	Blish	1957
Protective Shield - personal force field	Triplanetary	Smith	1934
Proton Pack - don't cross the streams	Ghostbusters	Ramis	1984
Proton Pistol (Proton Beam) - beams of fury	A Menace in Miniature	Gallun	1937
Protophason Amplifier	Ubik	Dick	1969
Provigil - sleep surrogate	When the Devil Dances	Ringo	2002
Pry-Vie (Robotic Detective)	Clans of the Alphane Moon	Dick	1964
Pseudoflesh - key to boneless meat	Whipping Star	Herbert	1969
Psychohistory	Foundation	Asimov	1951
Psycho-Lease Encephalic Gadget	Galactic Pot-Healer	Dick	1969
Psychophone	The Mechanical Mice	Hugi	1941
Psychophonic Nurse - a nanny robot	The Psychophonic Nurse	Keller	1928
Psychoprobe - head examined	Satellite Five	Barnes	1938
Psychoscanner	Propagandist	Leinster	1947
Psychotropic House	The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista	Ballard	1962
Psypyx - will your memories wind up on Kazaa?	Earth Made of Glass	Barnes	1998
P-Terminal Implant - turn yourself on	The Terminal Man	Crichton	1972
Public Eye	Friday	Heinlein	1982
Public Iris Scanner - Mr. Anderton	Minority Report (Movie)	Spielberg	2002
Pulse-Timer	Heretics of Dune	Herbert	1984
Purza the Pukha	The Rowan	McCaffrey	1990
Pushpot	Space Tug	Leinster	1953
PyrE - thought explosive	The Stars My Destination	Bester	1956

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