Technology

(This is a stub, referenced by Magic)

Advanced technology

• Space travel
• Time travel
• 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
  • Video
  • Holographic (3D) recording
  • Recording with limited interactive ability (cf. the movie I, Robot)
  • Miniature spy camera or audio device ("bug")
• Positioning systems
  • GPS (Global Positioning System)
  • Tracking devices
• 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
  • Scanner, radar
  • Cooker, microwave, food generator
  • Microscope
  • Telescope
  • Simulator, virtual reality, holodeck (Star Trek)