invented tech

[kengr]

I'm trying to put togerher a fake "shopping list". Not sure what I'll use it for, maybe a game prop, maybe a prop at Orycon.

I've got the first two items, I'd love suggestions for other made up tech from SF movies and TV. I'd prefer parts or "modules" to entire devices.

Anyway:

1. Flux capacitor (From "Back to the Future")
2. interocitor (from "This Island Earth")

Not sure if Iwant stuff like dilithium crystals.

Comments

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

Self-sealing stem bolts? (DS9)

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[kengr]

What? No handwavium?

I think they use thiotimoline as the dielectric in flux capacitors. :-)

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

A catalyzer for an engine's compression coil (Firefly)
An iconometric frammistat (Fantastic Four)
A samoflange (Thundercats)
Ten liters of allotropic iron. (Lensman series)

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Also from the Lensman series: A Lens. :-)

[kengr]

You *do* recall that unless you are the person the Lens was made for, it'll kill you? And that they tend to "evaporate" if taken off said person. (though that last wasn't thought thru, as there are numerous instances of Lens being transported in the books)

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a Lens *for* Kengr. :-)

Weren't the Lenses being transported made for someone but not imprinted on them yet?

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

Kim Kinnison removed his several times. I think the link between lens and wearer allows the lens to exist as long as the wearer is alive, regardless of location.

[seawasp]

Solution of "X" metal

Q-type helix generator

AKKA

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Beat me to the X (aka Rovolon, the conversion catalyst from the Skylark series).

[seawasp]

As well I should, given that I'm writing books with "Marc C. DuQuesne" as a major character.

[kengr]

AKKA!

Geez, might as well go for the Ultimate Nullifier.

And would that be a seven-percent solution? :-)

[seawasp]

It would be about one or two percent, actually. Seven was cocaine!

If you don't want all of AKKA, just a nice small shaft of iron.

[seawasp]

Or, to be totally self centered, a Sandrisson coil and CryWolf goggles.

[kengr]

You need to have the customs inspectors at the Inner Sphere catch somebody trying to smuggle in this purple powder...

[seawasp]

Oh, now that's a thought.

[kengr]

And now I'm recalling how I freaked out several fen at Orycon years back.

This was before the current M&M colors. I bought several bags of the special Easter M&Ms and saved the blue ones. I dumped them into a pill bottle and then at Orycon I shake a few out onto my hand and offer folks Reality Pills.

A lot of folks were "huh?" but you could tell who'd read that classic 60s SF novel by the way they turned pale.

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Something I think of every time I see one of those spaceship size comparison charts: One of the Golden Ships from the titular story in the Instrumentality of Man series by Cordwainer Smith.

That is, if you have the room. (They're larger than most stars.)

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

A Spindizzy (miracle gadget which is a stardrive, protective barrier generator, etc., from the Cities in Flight series by James Blish.)

One of those protective suits The Weapons Shops of Isher (the fictional one) makes, from the story "SeeSaw."

Phaser I (we don't need no stinkin' microwave).

Environmental Control Robot (Lost in Space).

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

A current catalog from the Weapon Shops of Isher.

[seawasp]

A Sonic Screwdriver!

A Stasis Box and Variable-Sword?

A Triluminary.

[kengr]

From a bit of silliness last night.

#1 could be vodka and orange juice mixed by a blue anthropomorphic member of the Erinaceinae.

[xander-opal.livejournal.com]

1. General Products Number 2 hull.
2. Diatium Power Cell.
3. Egg of the Phoenix.
4. Gravity Lance.
5. Myomer fibers.

[kengr]

A GP#2 hull is a bit large. But a GP#1 hull would be about right...

What's the power cell from?

I assume #3 is from Glory Road.

#4, is that from Bujold?

And #5 is from several places I can think of.

[seawasp]

#4 is from Honor Harrington 1 -- and don't mention it to Mr. Weber!

The power cell is what's used to power lightsabers.

[xander-opal.livejournal.com]

#4 is from Honor Harrington, as Seawasp noted. Though, Bujold did use it as a plot device in one of the later Vorkosigan books. And the less said about the tree-cats, the better.

#5 is from Battletech, specifically.

Seawasp also got #2 correct, it is a lightsaber power cell.

[xander-opal.livejournal.com]

6. Rental car with a jar of peanut butter (I'll give this one: Enterprise with a Jiffy's Tube).

7. Computer-controlled ignition coil for a car engine.

8. Phased plasma rifle in a 40-watt range.

9. Spectrum data of Cl in an old computer audio format.

10. Pork sausage vacuum sealed in Mylar.

11. Sunstones, rations, small fluffy toy.

12. Biot crabs.

13. Three-pound platium-iridum lump.

14. A Toaster.

15. Lump of Amber.

16. A labyrinthe scribed on amber.

17. A piece of musically resonant crystal.

18. An ASCII/hex reference chart.

19. An upside-down tortoise.

20. Horizontal and Vertical control knobs.

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

A photograph of Amber, a photograph of the Pattern, and a photograph of the Logrus.

[skjam.livejournal.com]

And of course the classic Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator.