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Culture Tank Germs that eat garbage and produce oil.
(From Needle [1950] by Hal Clement) |
Planetary Propulsion-Blasts Devices capable of moving and steering planets to new orbits or new stars.
(From Thundering Worlds [1934] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Rigid Metallic Clothing An early exoskeleton.
(From A Conquest of Two Worlds [1932] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Meteor Warning System A system that provided rockets in flight with early warning of meteors.
(From A Conquest of Two Worlds [1932] by Edmond Hamilton) |
Atomic Bomb A weapon that uses an atomic chain reaction as an explosive force.
(From The World Set Free [1914] by H.G. Wells) |
Disintegrator A device that causes objects to burst into molecular pieces.
(From Edison's Conquest of Mars [1898] by Garrett P. Serviss) |
Aerial Telegraph Communication between individuals in spacesuits.
(From Edison's Conquest of Mars [1898] by Garrett P. Serviss) |
Grass Carpet An indoor home or office floor covering - living grass.
(From The Sirens of Titan [1959] by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.) |
Magnetically Floating Furniture Furniture that is suspended at the proper height using magnetic forces.
(From The Sirens of Titan [1959] by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.) |
Roujin Z-0001 Robotic Bed A fully automated hospital bed and transport robot.
(From Roujin Z [1991] by Katsuhiro Otomo) |
Carson Circuit A means of distinguishing betweem millions of different information sources - the secret of the Internet.
(From A Logic Named Joe [1946] by Murray Leinster) |
Tanks Device that provides mass storage of information.
(From A Logic Named Joe [1946] by Murray Leinster) |
Logics Machines that let you request information, and then display it for you on a screen.
(From A Logic Named Joe [1946] by Murray Leinster) |
Purza the Pukha A toy with sensors used to monitor children in hospitals.
(From The Rowan [1990] by Anne McCaffrey) |
Sintered Armorgel A substance that is flexible when moved slowly, but which hardens upon external impact.
(From Snow Crash [1992] by Neal Stephenson) |
Mindwipe A process that selectively and effectively erases human memory.
(From Mindkiller [1982] by Spider Robinson) |
Laminated Mouse Brain Computer A computing device that makes use of neurons from a mouse.
(From Think Blue, Count Two [1962] by Cordwainer Smith) |
Robass A robotic beast of burden.
(From The Quest for Saint Aquin [1951] by Anthony Boucher) |
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