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Far Future gadgets (and toys for the rich)

Originally posted by Liam Devlin:
Here's an idea for you RoS--and at least TL-D where holographic display comes in to its fore:

Holographic Memory Paper. Capable of holding several minutes worth of imagery that 'loops' and repeats itself when 'opend/ tapped/touched. Frequently used for Calendars, and family albumns, etc.
TL-D+,

Price??? I leave that you.
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Now how about the New Playboy Calendar? Loop Strip Tease?
 
Originally posted by Andrew Boulton:
"The clothing fabric is not loaded with nanobots, it is made of nanobots"

Could be embarrasing if someone hacks into the nanobots and tuns your suit into a French maid's outfit, or crashes them completely, turning the whole thing into a pile of dust at your feet...
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Ordinary hacking attempts wouldn't do much good. The nanobots in the clothing can only do what they are built to do*, and their "programming" is a part of their structure.

However, if you could launch a cloud of remotely controllable nanobots, that could land on and infect the clothing, and alter the structure of the nanobots dynamically into something else on the fly . . .

TL-15, IMTU, doesn't allow free-roaming dynamic nanotech to do anything like that. All nanotech must be a part of a larger whole, (like the cells of the human body are, only smaller), or have fairly limited application (like medical nano that is injected into bodies, one wave after another, each to perform its own step in surgery, etc.). There is also no ability to remotely control nano, individual nanobots are too small to receive external signals, so unless they're wired (usually by hard connection, or by liquid-carried chemical signals) to a larger system, they only do what they've been built to do.

The features which I deem unavailable at TL-15 do appear higher up the scale, but I don't usually worry about that, as MTU is mostly Max TL-15 with very limited TL-16 available (TL-16 is available to the very important in the larger nations).


* Nanoengineers IMTU have a sub-degree in topological mathematics. Crafting legal nano involves proving, mathematically, that no matter how your nanobot breaks, that it will always become inert garbage. (Idea stolen from Michael Flynn's: The Nanotech Chronicles, and also from Walter Jon Williams': Aristoi.)
 
I've done a bit of mathematically proving software. Anything more complicated than

10 print "hello world"
20 goto 10

made my brain leak out of my ears.
 
And, of course, that's what you have to worry about with nanobots.

10 replicate
20 goto 10 (should have been goto 110)

And, suddenly, the moon on which the research station is located is no more.
 
Originally posted by Baron W. The PreacherMan:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Liam Devlin:
Here's an idea for you RoS--and at least TL-D where holographic display comes in to its fore:

Holographic Memory Paper. Capable of holding several minutes worth of imagery that 'loops' and repeats itself when 'opend/ tapped/touched. Frequently used for Calendars, and family albumns, etc.
TL-D+,

Price??? I leave that you.
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Now how about the New Playboy Calendar? Loop Strip Tease? </font>[/QUOTE]-------------------------------------------------

Could be. Basic technology at TL-D,

At TL-E more refined, longer duration.

TL-F zeniths, and small mini holo movies can be transposed to 2-D medium.

As for WHAT is on the calendar, I leave that to YTU & GM's tastes, but running through a bookstore of late, pretty much anything in those regrds for 'themes'.
 
Then there's cybertoys and cybernannys. If a world has inexpensive robotics and low end AI I can see even middle class children getting robot kits they can assemble and program. We have a very primitive form of that with Legos Robotics. You build a model with gears, switches, locomotion, and use a PC to program it with a simple flow chart gui-based language. Now imagine TL13-15 versions with more versatile software and hardware!

Then for the busy professional family, you can have cybernannys that can play, feed, teach, and protect the children. They don't have to be in a "C3PO" or "Dalek" body. They could be automated teddy bears and other stuffed animals.
 
May it please ye to know Ihave posted those gifts submitted by ourselves in the 'Quiet Word' thread, Mssr, RoS.

Again, I thank you for the source, and your contribution to the story's flavoring!

me bows
 
OOOOI
What about Robotic Companionship for those long lonely voyages between the stars?
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Ummm...
Baron W..
a real life reference for you:

In our deployment overseas, listed as contraband was ⌧ography. "Self-stimulation" devices oddly enough, were not.
[Apparently a lesson learned from previous Desert Storm I and female soldiers goin' home, with child.]

So in a roundabout way, yes, there prolley are such things,
but due to the nature of the industry, such home-brewed devices by the official rules will be just that--as per the individual GM's & gamer's taste[lessness].

In an esoteric point of view, the Virtual reality of holographic technology Software programs [TL-D-F],probably exist for such "self-stimulation" and would definitely compete for space and market share than say, a bulkier, expensive Femmbot.

As usual,
YMMV, and this was, again, my .000000125MCr worth.
 
Originally posted by Liam Devlin:
May it please ye to know Ihave posted those gifts submitted by ourselves in the 'Quiet Word' thread, Mssr, RoS.

Again, I thank you for the source, and your contribution to the story's flavoring!

me bows
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:D
 
Some novelties my nobles are able to afford:

- Wings - a combination of ultralight materials, computerized actuators, and repulsor technology; provides user with near perfect approximation to self-sustained flight; wingtips are controlled by computer through hand pressure; actuators assist muscle action

- Tailored clothing on demand - a clothing synthesizer that is able to cut and dye cloth to any of 1000 preprogrammed patterns; utilizes a suspension of synthetic fibers as a base; sort of a copier for clothes

- Extra-atmospheric sky diving gear - based on Imperial military technology; uses repulsors, ablative armor, and computer actuated control surfaces to allow the wearer to safely transit the space/atmosphere interface and settle comfortably on the planet's surface; onboard computer continuously monitors suit temperature, speed of descent, and distance to ground to ensure maximum safety

- Gas giant glider - a sky plane capable entering, gliding in, and exiting the upper atmosphere of a gas giant; wings retract into a cylindrical fuselage for entry and exit; utilizes simple chemical rockets to power back into orbit; cockpit forms an ejectable life pod in case of emergency

- Continuous robotic rejuvenation (my take) - nanobots capable on near continuous repair of cellular damage; controlled externally thru a computerized medical monitoring system (often located in the patient's bed); functionality degrades when routine access to the monitoring system is prevented
 
Originally posted by Ran Targas:
Some novelties my nobles are able to afford:
- Extra-atmospheric sky diving gear - based on Imperial military technology; uses repulsors, ablative armor, and computer actuated control surfaces to allow the wearer to safely transit the space/atmosphere interface and settle comfortably on the planet's surface; onboard computer continuously monitors suit temperature, speed of descent, and distance to ground to ensure maximum safety.
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I don't remember when or where or what publication this was printed in during the mid 80's, but it was...*and* it was aimed at skydiving/recreation, not as planetary invasion.

I still remember the illustration. Imagine being strapped to the flat side of a 1/2 a cantaloupe, with old-fashioned Satellite Dish Receiver legs grafted onto a central maneuvering pod, (so that the whole thing looked more or less like the skeleton of an X-Boat).

Gently push out of the cargo bay of a Small Craft, and let Gravity do the rest.

I still want to do that before I die. (unlikely in the greatest measure...but I still want to!)
 
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