Inventing A Nightmare

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Survivors who escaped the apocalypse live in enclaves protected by a small number of draconian wizard overlords called the Pentacles, who have outlawed magic in the hands of the common citizen.

US 2007/0167239 A1

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At a commercial level it may be expected that devices 31 implementing metrics that correspond to popular concepts of pleasure will be preferentially selected by the market, according to the dictum “I may not not much about love, but I know what I want”. In this case, however, the covert nature of the algorithms means that subjects 23 will not be aware of how they are being manipulated; this would, for example, allow for commercial success of a device 31 so designed as to make mood swings extreme while taking credit for the positive swings and hiding its participation in the negative swings.

US 2003/0083544 A1

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The sink and toilet 82 shown in FIG. 7 transforms (upon approximating the device, for example) from a conventional sink and toilet to a “scary” or “monster” version.

US 2008/0160495 A1

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The function of the replicants is quality control.

US 2006/0014186 A1

7 months ago

In the second stage, the attacker sends an attack command to the zombies

US 2010/0138919 A1

8 months ago