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Finger Jet Bath The ultimate in luxury tubs.
(From The Houses of Iszm [1954] by Jack Vance) |
Public Vehicle Tube Underground transportation tubes.
(From The Houses of Iszm [1954] by Jack Vance) |
One-Man Car A small transport vehicle.
(From The Houses of Iszm [1954] by Jack Vance) |
Thought Pattern Divination Attempting to construct the thoughts of a person by imitating their actions.
(From The Houses of Iszm [1954] by Jack Vance) |
Fyunch(click) An alien assigned to become an expert in just one person.
(From The Mote in God's Eye [1974] by Larry Niven (w/J. Pournelle)) |
Smarter People Having Fewer Children The original argument that less suitable human pairs are having proportionally more children.
(From The Marching Morons [1951] by C.M. Kornbluth) |
Coffee Cube Concentrated coffee that boils itself!
(From The Marching Morons [1951] by C.M. Kornbluth) |
Rocket-Polo Polo played with rocket-powered craft.
(From Ra For The Rajah [1938] by John Victor Peterson) |
Gyrotomic A small gyrostabilized hovercraft.
(From Ra For The Rajah [1938] by John Victor Peterson) |
Helicoptomic A hovering craft used by referees in rocket polo.
(From Ra For The Rajah [1938] by John Victor Peterson) |
Skull Alarm Implanted wakeup call.
(From Millennium [1983] by John Varley) |
Squeaker Used to search out radium in asteroids.
(From Beast of Space [1941] by F.E. Hardart) |
Frictionless Toilet A toilet bowl that does not require water, because its surface is frictionless.
(From The Mote in God's Eye [1974] by Larry Niven (w/J. Pournelle)) |
Seleno-Cosmo-Tel Device to automatically avoid asteroids or other bodies.
(From A Race Through Time [1933] by Donald Wandrei) |
Coal Mole Robotic device for asteroid mining chews through the interior, preparing raw materials for use
(From The Web Between the Worlds [1979] by Charles Sheffield) |
Conscious Retarded Animation A kind of hibernation, but leaves the user fully conscious, but aging at an incredibly slow rate.
(From A Race Through Time [1933] by Donald Wandrei) |
Disney Therapy Letting people retreat to a simpler time, for their mental health.
(From Steel Beach [1992] by John Varley) |
Corporol Preserves and maintains the body.
(From A Race Through Time [1933] by Donald Wandrei) |
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