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| Slow Glass (Scenedow) A window made of Bose-Einstein Condensate that slows light to a snail's pace. (From Light of Other Days [1968] by Bob Shaw) |
| Gauzy A feather-light tent, made of a fabric just one molecule thick. (From This Immortal [1965] by Roger Zelazny) |
| Precrime Analytical Wing Contains the precognitives and the machinery need to hear and analyze their predictions of future crimes. (From The Minority Report [1956] by Philip K. Dick) |
| Waveform Hypothesis (From Backbeat - A Novel of Physics [2004] by J. Frederick Arment) |
| Acceleration-tank A water-filled tank used to ease the strains of acceleration. (From Triplanetary [1934] by E.E. 'Doc' Smith) |
| Flying Wing A V-shaped plane capable of flight to the edge of the atmosphere. (From Triplanetary [1934] by E.E. 'Doc' Smith) |
| Head Cheese Intelligent paste made of neurons; spread upon a substrate for computing. (From Starfish [1999] by Peter Watts) |
| Moving a Planet Early use of the concept of moving a planet to a new sun. (From Triplanetary [1934] by E.E. 'Doc' Smith) |
| Platinum Alloy Disc A silvery disc used for data record storage. (From Triplanetary [1934] by E.E. 'Doc' Smith) |
| Weightlessness in Space This appears to be the first description of the idea of weightlessness in space. (From The Man in the Moone [1638] by Francis Godwin) |
| Credit Card A simple card that is used in place of money (From Looking Backward [1888] by Edward Bellamy) |
| Mall (Great City Bazaar) An aggregation of shops under one roof. (From Looking Backward [1888] by Edward Bellamy) |
| Joy-boat Junior A private space yacht, capable of suborbital journeys. (From Methuselah's Children [1941] by Robert Heinlein) |
| Sprung-Samser Treatment A medical treatment to extend human life. (From This Immortal [1965] by Roger Zelazny) |
| Hypnobioscope The first fictional reference to sleep teaching. (From Ralph 124c 41 + [1911] by Hugo Gernsback) |
| Modded Dog A canine whose ancestors were genetically modified for higher intelligence; the trait breeds true in offspring. (From The Shockwave Rider [1975] by John Brunner) |
| Sub-Atlantic Tube A tunnel under the ocean; the shortest distance between the two points. (From Ralph 124c 41 + [1911] by Hugo Gernsback) |
| Interway Computer-controlled highway. (From The Tels [2003] by Paul Black) |
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