Ideas, Science Fiction

(in progress)

Technology

• Space travel
• Time travel
• Vehicles
  • Land vehicles - bike, car, bus, jeep, 4 wheel drive, train, tank, "speeder" / hovercraft
  • Water vehicles - canoe, row boat, barge, sailing ship, speed boat, jet ski, hydrofoil, freighter, tanker
  • Underwater vehicles - submarine
  • Underground vehicles - mining machine
  • Air vehicles - glider, aeroplane, jet, stealth aircraft
  • Space vehicles
    • Unmanned - satellite, probe
    • Manned - shuttle, orbiter, space ship, star ship, deep space vehicle
• Instant transportation
  • Transmat beams (short range)
  • Teleportation
  • Worm holes / gateways / portals to another region of space (one or two way)
• Weapons
  • May require ammunition or recharging
  • Handguns - pistol, blaster, laser, phaser. May have various settings from "stun" to "lethal".
  • Large guns - rifle (normal, laser, sniper), shotgun, rail gun, machine gun
  • Grenades - stun, smoke, gas, incendiary, fragmentation
  • Heavy duty - bazooka / rocket launcher
  • Mounted - missile (guided / heat seeking), torpedo, energy weapons
  • Explosives - dynamite, C4
  • Bombs, nuclear weapons
• Nanotechnology (microscopic machines)
  • Can inhabit a creature's body and enhance its abilities
• Force field
  • Invisible door
  • A personal force field
  • A space ship's shield
• Other kinds of field
  • Magnetic field
  • Attraction (tractor beam)
  • Repulsion (deflector shield)
• Cloaking device (invisibility)
• Holograms and projections
• Communication devices
  • Hand held communicator (or bracelet) - audio, audio visual
  • May require line of sight (or at least no major obstacles between the sender and receiver)
  • Messages may be broadcast on "all known frequencies"
  • Jammers to prevent communication inside a region
  • Secure and insecure communication lines (which may be tapped into or forged)
  • Public broadcast receivers - television, radio
• Recording devices
  • Voice recorders
  • Camera, video
  • Holographic (3D) recording
  • Recording with limited interactive ability (cf. the movie I, Robot)
  • Miniature spy camera or audio device ("bug")
• Location based systems
  • GPS (Global Positioning System)
  • Tracking devices
  • Scanner, radar, "lifesigns" detector
• Clothing
  • Space suit, wet suit, fireproof suit
  • Gas mask
  • Bullet proof vest, body armor, exoskeleton
  • Magnetic boots
  • Jet pack, "flying" boots
• Keys
  • Pin number, password
  • Swipe card, special object (such as a ring)
  • Voice authentication
  • Thumb print, hand print or iris pattern
• Miscellaneous devices
  • Translator unit
  • Medikit, diagnosis device
  • Chemical analyzer (rocks, atmosphere, etc)
  • Cooker, microwave, food generator
  • Microscope
  • Telescope
  • Torch, lighting
  • Simulator, virtual reality, holodeck (Star Trek)
• Biologically related technology
  • Cloning
  • Genetic engineering
  • Artificial body parts
• Supplements to normal abilities
  • Infra red camera, night vision goggles
  • X rays, ultrasound, sonar (eg. in submarines)
• Large scale technology
  • Terraforming planets