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Total Record Results: 7 - Medium: LITERATURE / Group: BBB / Category: TECHNOLOGY |
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| # | | 1 | Empathy Box | Technology | Electronics | |
Empathy Box
Networked appliance that connects many anonymous people through shared warmth.
| | 2 | Infinity Key | Technology | Electronics | |
Infinity Key
They're now all frozen stiff, he said to himself as he shut off the transmitter. Everyone, human and andy alike, in the vicinity. No risk to me, all I have to do is walk in and laser him. Assuming, of course, that he's in his apartment, which isn't likely. Using an infinity key, which analyzed and opened all forms of locks known, he entered Polokov's apartment, laser beam in hand.
| | 3 | Nexus-6 | Technology | Robot Models | |
Nexus-6
"It must have been one of those new, extra-clever andys the Rosen Association is turning out," Miss Marsten said. "Did you read over the company's brochure and the spec sheets? The Nexus-6 brain unit they're using now is capable of selecting within a field of two trillion constituents, or ten million separate neural pathways." She lowered her voice. "You missed the vidcall this morning. Miss Wild told me, it came through the switchboard exactly at nine."
| | 4 | Penfield Mood Organ | Technology | Audiovisual Devices | |
Penfield Mood Organ
At the Penfield mood organ, Iran Deckard sat with her right index finger touching the numbered dial. But she did not dial, she felt too listless and ill to want anything: a burden which closed off the future and any possibilities which it might once have contained. If Rick were here, she thought, he'd get me to dial 3 and that way I'd find myself wanting to dial something important, ebullient joy or if not that then possibly an 888, the desire to watch TV no matter what's on it. I wonder what is on it, she thought. And then she wondered again where Rick had gone. He may be coming back and on the other hand he may not be, she said to herself, and felt her bones within her shrink with age.
| | 5 | Q-40 | Technology | Robot Models | |
Q-40
On tile stage Luba Luft sang, and he found himself surprised at the quality of her voice, it rated with that of the best, even that of notables in his collection of historic tapes. The Rosen Associaion built her well, he had to admit. And again he perceived himself sub specie aeternitatis, the formdestroyer called forth by what he heard and saw here. Perhaps the better she functions, the better a singer she is, the more I am needed. If the androids had remained substandard, like the ancient q-40s made by Derain Associates - there would be no problem and no need of my skill. I wonder when I should do it, he asked himself. As soon as possible, probably. At the end of the rehearsal when she goes to her dressing room.
| | 6 | Vidphone | Technology | Communication Devices | |
Vidphone
Video phone.
| | 7 | Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test | Technology | Electronics | |
Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test
The Nexus-6 android types, Rick reflected, surpassed several classes of human specials in terms of intelligence. In other words, androids equipped with the new Nexus-6 brain unit had from a sort of rough, pragmatic, no-nonsense standpoint evolved beyond a major - but inferior - segment of mankind. For better or worse. The servant had in some cases become more adroit than its master. But new scales of achievement, for example the Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test, had emerged as criteria by which to judge. An android, no matter how gifted as to pure intellectual capacity, could make no sense out of the fusion which took place routinely among the followers of Mercerism - an experience which he, and virtually everyone else, including subnormal chickenheads, managed with no difficulty.
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