Black box
Black box noun - Equipment that records information about the performance of an aircraft during flight.
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Device
Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
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There's even a device called the Chair, where they strap unruly inmates down, hands and feet, and put a black box over their heads so they can't even see.
Source: Bedlam House -
Muzzy's black box is some kind of tracking device that can find Amanda anywhere and can see what she is doing at the moment.
- Al is also wired into the device that allows the mech to twist the laws of physics, itself black box tech that no one in Mithril knows how to replicate.
Source: Resigned to the Call
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