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| Projectile-Vehicle A projectile, or shot, capable of enclosing passengers and being safely hurled to the moon by an enormous cannon. (From From the Earth to the Moon [1867] by Jules Verne) |
| Light-Sword A laser tuned for use as a cutting tool. (From Ringworld [1970] by Larry Niven) |
| Slaver Disintegrator Sometimes used as a digging tool. (From Ringworld [1970] by Larry Niven) |
| Rifle Range (Virtual Shooting Range) Virtual skeet shooting gallery with clay pigeon traps created by aliens. (From Way Station [1963] by Clifford Simak) |
| Comeye A portable video camera, used by the mobile functionary to keep in touch with office. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| Datacase A portable suitcase, containing useful electronics for the mobile business-person. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| Space Liner A large, passenger-carrying space ship. (From On Board the Martian Liner [1931] by Miles J. Breuer) |
| Metaverse A virtual universe. (From Snow Crash [1992] by Neal Stephenson) |
| House Records The vast archival information management system of the Bene Gesserit sisterhood, covering millennia. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| Ixian Probe A device that looks at brain tissue so carefully that memories can be seen. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| Agony Box A device for causing non-lethal, non-injuring pain by nerve induction. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| Nullentropy Bin A compartment in which entropy was halted. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| No-Globe A large spherical living space that is concealed by special Ixian technology, making it impossible to detect by any known probe. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| Life-shield Blanket A device that is capable of shielding the person using it against ordinary forms of detecting living beings. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| Pulse-Timer A watch that uses your visual cortex for a read-out device. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| No-Ship A ship that uses an Ixian field to be effectively invisible. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| Shere Destroys cells so that memory cannot be deduced from the cells of the person even in death. (From Heretics of Dune [1984] by Frank Herbert) |
| Time Machine A device allowing the rider to move freely in the temporal dimension, just as we ordinarily do in the two physical dimensions normal to gravity. (From The Time Machine [1895] by H.G. Wells) |
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