A moisture vaporator, also known as a vapor spire, was a device used on moisture farms to capture water from the atmosphere. Though stationary, they included programming that used a binary language to communicate with other equipment. Author employs moisture vaporators as tremendously clever reference to a notorious feature film and modern mythology.[1]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUH2_n8jE70&t=0m30s