Ansible
- noun
- A device that allows instantaneous communication over any distance.
- Origin
- Contraction of ‘answerable’.
- Source
- Rocannon’s World
Psychopraxiscope
- noun
- A device purported to offer instantaneous viewing of any subject’s thoughts.
- Source
- Great Breakthroughs in Darkness
Parestisomach
- noun
- A portable device for capturing likenesses.
- Origin
- Derived from parēre (visible), estis (“they are”), and māchina (machine).
- Source
- The Witcher 3: Blood And Wine
Xenovox
- noun
- A portable device for sending and receiving voice communications over long distances.
- Origin
- Derived from ksenos (foreign) and vox (voice).
- Source
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Spacell
- noun
- A perpetual power source of extraterrestrial inception.
- Origin
- Portmanteau of ‘space’ and (power-) ‘cell’.
- Source
- Roadside Picnic
Femfatalatron
- noun
- An erotifying device stochastic, elastic and orgiastic.
- Source
- The Cyberiad
Musicometer
- noun
- A device allowing the operator to compose music automatically.
- Origin
- Derived from metron (measure).
- Source
- We
Cutteray
- noun
- Short-range laser used mostly as a cutting tool and surgeon’s scalpel.
- Source
- Dune
Geophone
- noun
- A listening device that detects vibrations in bedrock.
- Origin
- Formed from geo (Earth) and phone (sound).
- Source
- The Stars My Destination
Piezophone
- noun
- A device for sending and receiving wireless voice communications.
- Origin
- Formed from the prefix piezo- (relating to piezoelectricity) and phone (sound).
- Source
- Gateway
Voxophone
- noun
- A portable audio recording and playback device, employing phonograph records as the storage medium.
- Origin
- Formed from vox (voice) and phone (sound).
- Source
- Bioshock Infinite
Versificator
- noun
- A device for composing songs entirely by mechanical means.
- Origin
- Pairing of ‘verse’ with the French suffix -ificateur (to realise an action).
- Source
- Nineteen Eighty-Four