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| Gourmet Space Cuisine The finest in French cuisine, in outer space. (From From the Earth to the Moon [1867] by Jules Verne) |
| Two-Wheeled Car A small passenger vehicle with two centerline wheels. (From The Roads Must Roll [1940] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Metallic Display Scroll A rollable video screen. (From Freedom [2010] by Daniel Suarez) |
| Angel Teeth Essentially a spear dropped from a great height (or from orbit) with a guidance system. (From Freedom [2010] by Daniel Suarez) |
| Emotional Register (ER) A small disk worn in the forehead that discloses the emotional state of the wearer. (From The Primal Urge [1961] by Brian Aldiss) |
| Jodie Grid A 'tattoo' that provides points for mapping your face into a grid. (From The Diamond Age [1995] by Neal Stephenson) |
| Sterile Seeds Seeds that are bioengineered to grow, but not to produce fertile seeds. (From The Calorie Man [2005] by Paolo Bacigalupi) |
| Hyper-Developed Mulies Bioengineered animals that optimally transform vegetable matter into usable mechanical energy. (From The Calorie Man [2005] by Paolo Bacigalupi) |
| Ixian Sight Mask Device to allow the blind to see. (From Children of Dune [1976] by Frank Herbert) |
| Anti-Tri-D Shot Counteracts the deadly pesticide Tri-D. (From The Morning of the Day They Did It [1950] by E.B. White) |
| Tri-D A remarkable pesticide. (From The Morning of the Day They Did It [1950] by E.B. White) |
| Diaheliper Offers delivery of diapers by air. (From The Morning of the Day They Did It [1950] by E.B. White) |
| Gravity Port Used for refueling. (From Shadow Over Venus [1946] by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.) |
| Voice Encyclopedia Access to information via robotic voice recognition over the phone. (From Galactic Pot-Healer [1969] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Water Bulb A zero-gee dispenser of liquids. (From The Space Merchants [1952] by Frederik Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth)) |
| Plasticocoon Holds a prisoner motionless. (From The Space Merchants [1952] by Frederik Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth)) |
| Hypnoteleset A device that guarantees quick, surrogate sleep. (From The Space Merchants [1952] by Frederik Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth)) |
| Dromozoa Life forms that cause the human body to bud new parts for harvesting. (From A Planet Named Shayol [1961] by Cordwainer Smith) |
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