Glossary of Science Fiction Ideas and Inventions
( 1865 Inventions Available)

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Device Name Book/Story Author Date
Eadhamite When the Sleeper Wakes Wells  1899
Eager Beaver - your friendly robot helper The Door Into Summer Heinlein  1956
Earmite Freezone Shirley  1985
Eavesdropper - check if it's safe Cities in Flight Blish  1957
Eavesdropping Ray - hears through walls Brigands of the Moon Cummings  1931
Ebony Teeth Now Wait For Last Year Dick  1966
Ecstasy Plug Death by Ecstasy Niven  1969
Edgar Electric Dreams Lemorande  1984
E-Document Distribution - step up to the kiosk Earth Brin  1990
Eetee (E.T - extraterrestrial) Double Star Heinlein  1956
Effective Human Implant Technology (EHIT) Snake-Eyes Maddox  1986
Ego-Likeness - a true portrait Dune Herbert  1965
Electric Diaper The Psychophonic Nurse Keller  1928
Electric Machine Gun (Railgun) - electromagnetic acceleration The Battery of Hate Campbell  1933
Electric Monk - belief on demand Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Adams  1987
Electric Phaetons (Electric Cars) A Journey In Other Worlds Astor IV  1894
Electric Protection-Wires (Electrified Fence) A Journey In Other Worlds Astor IV  1894
Electric Rifle - Tom Swift's weapon of choice Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle Appleton  1911
Electric Sheep - livestock as consumer electronics Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dick  1968
Electric Skillet - computer tapeworm project The Shockwave Rider Brunner  1975
Electrical Grandmother - more than a machine I Sing The Body Electric! Bradbury  1969
Electric-Eyed Snake Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury  1953
Electric-Space-Strain Projector - wireless power transmission The Mightiest Machine Campbell  1934
Electrified Fence A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Twain  1889
Electrify the Rail - repel boarders! 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Verne  1875
Electromagnetic Cannon Ringworld Niven  1970
Electronic Bard The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age Lem  1965
Electronic Body Analyzer The Andromeda Strain Crichton  1969
Electronic Book - more massively useful than a towel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams  1979
Electronic Book Store Return from the Stars Lem  1961
Electronic Paper 2001: A Space Odyssey Clarke  1968
Electronic Voting The Shockwave Rider Brunner  1975
Electrosecretary - automatic transcription machine A Fall of Moondust Clarke  1961
Eloi - long lifers Queen of Angels Bear  1990
Emblok - MP3 player for memories Earth Made of Glass Barnes  1998
Embryo Visualization Daughter of Elysium Slonczewski  1994
Embryonic Robots - early sci-fi nanobots? Counter Clock World Dick  1967
Emergency Corrective Rockets The Emperor of the Stars Schachner (w. AL Zagat)  1931
Emergency Lifeboat - very early space rescue vehicle Triplanetary Smith  1934
Emergency Treatment Tank (Chamber) Agent of Vega Schmitz  1949
EmilyPost - checks for flames Earth Brin  1990
Emissarial Projection - almost an a.i. The Algebraist Banks  2004
Empathy Box - TV for your emotional brain The Little Black Box Dick  1964
Empty Man - a body ready for a mind A World Out of Time Niven  1976
Energy Weapon Seesaw van Vogt  1941
Energy-Cannon The Last Castle Vance  1967
Environmental Happening The Phantom of Kansas Varley  1976
E-Paper - disposable LCD displays Darwin's Children Bear  2003
E-paper Hologram Darwin's Children Bear  2003
E-paper Newspaper Minority Report (Movie) Spielberg  2002
Erased Memory - forget about it We Can Remember It For You Wholesale Dick  1966
Ersatz Window - fake view of outside Galactic Pot-Healer Dick  1969
Escalladder - a ladder you can ride Crashlander Niven  1994
Escape Pod - check the pod, Darth Star Wars Lucas  1976
Esper Photo Analysis - zoom way in Blade Runner Scott  1982
Espionage Machine - reading minds scientifically No, No, Not Rogov! Smith  1958
E-Suit (Environmental Suit) Chindi McDevitt  2002
Eternity Drug Far Centaurus van Vogt  1944
Etherometer - check the ether for gravity waves Spawn of the Red Giants Long, Jr.  1937
Ether-Wall - an invisibility field. Triplanetary Smith  1934
Ethical Suicide Parlor - don't be a drupelet Welcome to the Monkey House Vonnegut  1958
EverRest Cryotorium - cryonics in orbit Flare Zelazny  1992
Exoskeleton - a military exoskeleton A Good Old-Fashioned Future Sterling  1999
External Eyelenses - make a spectacle of yourself Altered Carbon Morgan  2003
Extra-Factual Memory - an implanted memory We Can Remember It For You Wholesale Dick  1966
Eyecaps Starfish Watts  1999
Eyephone(s) - big screen in a small package Idoru Gibson  1996
EyePod - you'll need one for your implant WWW: Wake Sawyer  2009
Eyes - semi-autonomous surveillance drones This Moment of the Storm Zelazny  1966

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