Glossary of Science Fiction Ideas and Inventions
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Device Name Book/Story Author Date
Vacutubes Double Star Heinlein  1956
Vacuum Suit Diamond Planetoid Giles  1937
Vagus Nerve Bio-Chip Diplomatic Immunity Bujold  2002
Vai-Chi - virtual tai chi Rim Besher  1994
Vaporator Star Wars Lucas  1976
Variable Sword - better than Ginsu Ringworld Niven  1970
Vat Grown Meat - no animals harmed Neuromancer Gibson  1984
Vehicle Energy Reclamation A Journey In Other Worlds Astor IV  1894
Venus Equilateral Relay Station QRM - Interplanetary Smith  1942
Verhaeren Factor - creative machines Robinc Boucher  1943
Veridicator - lie detector that works Little Fuzzy Piper  1962
Verse Transcriber Studio 5, The Stars Ballard  1971
Vibration Screen - keep spy beams out! The Shining One Schachner  1937
Vibration-Propelled Cruiser - waves in spacetime Crashing Suns Hamilton  1928
Vibratory Mass Penetrator - not what you're thinking Rock Diver Harrison  1951
Vibra-Transmitter (Teleportation) Into the Meteorite Orbit Kelly  1933
Vibroblade - not messy If This Goes On... Heinlein  1940
Vibrowriter - automatic transcription The Lost Language Keller  1934
Video Unit - big bro Idoru Gibson  1996
Video Wallpaper A Deepness in the Sky Vinge  1999
Video-Glasses - see in all directions at once Islands in the Net Sterling  1988
Video-Manicuring Program Schismatrix Sterling  1985
Videophone World of Null-A van Vogt  1945
Videoshades - be sure to get wraparound style Islands in the Net Sterling  1988
Viewplate Armageddon: 2419 A.D. Nowlan  1928
Virtual Childrearing - long distance childcare Natulife Brin  1994
Virtual Kiss (Tactile Net) - affection by wire The Age of The Pussyfoot Pohl  1965
Virtual Meeting - grandson of the web conference Idoru Gibson  1996
Virtual Reality (Virtual Matrix) - early usage The Judas Mandala Broderick  1982
Virtual Reality Ceremony - serving up VR Rim Besher  1994
Virtual Reality Construct - VR without headgear The Age of The Pussyfoot Pohl  1965
Virtual World Theft - faux thievery Halting State Stross  2007
Virtuality Helmet ('Virching' Helmet) Heavy Weather Sterling  1994
Vision Cube The Man in the Maze Silverberg  1969
Vision Implant The Dream Master Zelazny  1966
Vision Plate - early flat screen First Contact Leinster  1945
Visiphone Triplanetary Smith  1934
Visiplate - early flat panel viewer Skylark Three Smith  1930
Visi-Screen - future display Satellite Five Barnes  1938
Visi-Sonor - emotional brain multi-media Foundation and Empire Asimov  1952
Visual Ad Sales Pitch Dick  1954
Visual Report Screen Nanny Dick  1955
Vivisector - software deconstruction Earth Brin  1990
Vizzyprint - phone printer Wetware Rucker  1988
Voice-Changing Bowtie - hey, it's me Case Closed (Detective Conan) Aoyama  1994
Voice-Clock The Martian Chronicles Bradbury  1950
Voice-Enabled Smartphone - I talk, it listens The Age of The Pussyfoot Pohl  1965
Voight-Kampff Empathy Test - can you pass? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dick  1968
Voight-Kampff Test - are you human? Blade Runner Scott  1982
Vortal Tube Whipping Star Herbert  1969
Voxbox - talking back Tekwar Shatner  1989
VR Dyslexia - take those glasses off! Rim Besher  1994
Vulcan 3 - endless self-modifying computer Vulcan's Hammer Dick  1960

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in the News

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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