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| Space-Armor Special shielding worn against rays and explosives. (From Revolt of the Star Men [1932] by Raymond Z. Gallun) |
| Wabbler An autonomous underwater robot. (From The Wabbler [1942] by Murray Leinster) |
| Tesseract House A house built in the shape of a four-dimensional figure. (From -And He Built A Crooked House [1940] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Meteor Blasters Energy beams that would destroy space debris or rocks that lay in the path of a spacecraft. (From First Contact [1945] by Murray Leinster) |
| Sleeve Communicator An electronic device controller built into clothing. (From First Contact [1945] by Murray Leinster) |
| Vision Plate A flat panel monitor. (From When the Moons Met [1930] by Clyde F. Beck) |
| 3D 'Chess' Game Board A flatbed 3D display which is used to play chess-style board games in three dimensions. (From Star Wars [1976] by George Lucas) |
| Hybrid Mass Driver A device for launching space craft on the first stage of a journey to space. (From The Man Who Sold The Moon [1950] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Automatic Sentry Gun A sentry gun that could target and decide to fire without any human intervention. (From The Andromeda Strain [1969] by Michael Crichton) |
| Mass-Driver Catapult An escape-speed induction catapult to launch material into orbit. (From The Moon is a Harsh Mistress [1966] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Handicloset A self-organizing closet (From The Zap Gun (Project Plowshare) [1965] by Philip K. Dick) |
| N-e (Needle-eyeification) Weapon A class of weapons that had the most precise effect imaginable. (From The Zap Gun (Project Plowshare) [1965] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Avatar Construction Set A collection of software that allows the building of a complete avatar. (From Snow Crash [1992] by Neal Stephenson) |
| Browser Paper A paper-thin computer display. (From Rainbows End [2006] by Vernor Vinge) |
| The Shed Enormous building needed to assemble giant space craft or space stations. (From Space Tug [1953] by Murray Leinster) |
| Death-rattle File A cache of information set to destroy itself upon the death of its owner. (From The Zap Gun (Project Plowshare) [1965] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Civic Notification Distorter A device that subtly damages databases full of government information. (From The Zap Gun (Project Plowshare) [1965] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Motorized Combat Boots Russian army-surplus self-propelled footgear. (From Accelerando [2005] by Charles Stross) |
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