DroID

DroID is a gene and protein interactions database designed for Drosophila melanogaster.

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Droid fonts

Droid is a font family first released in 2007 and created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform Android and licensed under the Apache License. The fonts are intended for use on the small screens of mobile handsets and were designed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation. The name was derived from the Open Handset Alliance platform named Android.

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Droid Serif

Droid Serif

Droid Sans

Droid Sans

Droid Sans Mono

Droid Sans Mono

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The Droid font family consists of Droid Sans, Droid Sans Mono and Droid Serif:

Droid (robot)

Droids are fictional robots, possessing some degree of artificial intelligence, most commonly referred to as such in the science fiction franchise Star Wars. Created by special effects worker John Stears, the term is a clipped form of android, a word originally reserved for robots designed to look and act like a human. The word droid is a registered trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd.

First usage

The term Droid was first used in a 1952 sci-fi story by Mari Wolf, "Robots of the World! Arise!", published in "If Worlds of Science Fiction", July 1952.

Star Wars

The Star Wars franchise features a variety of droids fulfilling roles. The humanoid robot C-3PO is a "protocol droid", which specializes in translation, etiquette and cultural customs. R2-D2 and BB-8 are "astromech droids", which are "generally used for the maintenance and repair of starships and related technology".HK-47 is a humanoid soldier robot designed as a violent killer.

Trademark use

The term "Droid" has been used by Verizon Wireless under licence from Lucasfilm, for their line of smartphones based on the Android operating system. Motorola's late-2009 Google Android-based cell phone is called the Droid. This line of phone has been expanded to include other Android-based phones released under Verizon, including the HTC Droid Eris, the HTC Droid Incredible, Motorola Droid X, Motorola Droid 2, and Motorola Droid Pro. The term was also used for the Lucasfilm projects EditDroid, a non-linear editing system, and SoundDroid, an early digital audio workstation.

Lucia

Lucia may refer to:

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Lucia (butterfly)

Lucia is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.

Suikoden (video game)

Suikoden (Japanese: 幻想水滸伝, Hepburn: Gensō Suikoden,  listen ) is a role-playing game published by Konami as the first installment of the Suikoden series. Developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, it was released initially in 1995 for the PlayStation in Japan. North American and British releases followed one year later, and a mainland European release came the following March. The game was also released for the Sega Saturn in 1998 only in Japan, and for Microsoft Windows in 1998 in Japan. On December 22, 2008, Suikoden was made available on the PlayStation Store for use on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles.

The game centers on the political struggles of the Scarlet Moon Empire. The player controls the son of a Scarlet Moon Empire general who is destined to seek out 108 warriors (referred to as the 108 Stars of Destiny) in order to revolt against the corrupt sovereign state and bring peace to a war-torn land. The game is loosely based on the Chinese novel Shui Hu Zhuan, and features a vast array of characters both controllable and not, with over ninety characters usable in combat and many more able to help or hinder the hero in a variety of ways.