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Ideas for Gadgets/Devises [message #33616] Sun, 29 March 2009 00:28 Go to next message
lees192000 is currently offline lees192000
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Not sure if I missed an existing thread, but here's one for all those wacky/useful ideas you have. If they're good enough, I'm sure someone will pick them up.

Let's start with mine:

Skinmail (Trademarked, of course): A few microns thin layer of threaded nanoware, which upon impact hardens to absorbs, distribute and dissipate impact. The gadgeteer version would be the equivalent of two inches of steel armor, the deviser six inches of armor that would also offer adequate protection from heat and excellent protection from acid and lightning.
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Re: Ideas for Gadgets/Devises [message #33620 is a reply to message #33616 ] Sun, 29 March 2009 00:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
oljak.eru is currently offline oljak.eru
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I've got an idea for training equipment that should scale from baseline to high level exemplar- non-Newtonian fluid pool for swimming laps in. I'm sure some gadgeteer must be able to invent one that has just the right viscosity curve for ideal use against any level of strength.

“I am SO level-headed! And anyone who says different is going to have to answer to... The CABBIT OF DOOM!” -Jade
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Re: Ideas for Gadgets/Devises [message #33629 is a reply to message #33616 ] Sun, 29 March 2009 01:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
veterrimus is currently offline veterrimus
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How about a device / gadget for the simulator to combine several students and their powers into one simulator character.

How about a device / gadget for the simulator that student could switch on / off that can imitate a character and their powers like Godzilla, GOO or another student.

How about a device / gadget for the simulator to swap images but not powers. (Looks like Fey doing Ki stuff and Toni doing powerful magic.)

Might be lots of evil fun.
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Re: Ideas for Gadgets/Devises [message #33636 is a reply to message #33616 ] Sun, 29 March 2009 02:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Nocte is currently offline Nocte
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Headphones combined with music player. Gadgeteer version has a cable uplink to a computer so to load songs. Devisor version plays whatever song the person is thinking of without the song being loaded onto it.

The devisor version 2.0 has customizable banlist, after someone started making signs that say "Rickroll, lol" and people complained.

Devisor ring that turns furniture into leaves and back again. Useful for those who have a ton of stuff and not enough space to store it.

Air Jesus shoes. Need I say more?

"On the other hand, maybe all this could have been avoided if you just managed to get laid once in a while. You can't even tell me you'd be this tightly wound if you were receiving Treasure Type O regularly" Roy Greenhilt
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Re: Ideas for Gadgets/Devises [message #33638 is a reply to message #33616 ] Sun, 29 March 2009 02:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Anvildude is currently offline Anvildude
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Devise: Portable tap. Looks like a faucet without a sink, or pipes, attached. Actually uses subspace transmission to get water from a properly fitted water main. Can be tuned to connect to different liquid sources, if they're properly prepared, so it could either produce water, or soda, or blood, if there's a tapped source of the proper liquid.

It's a sad thing when your paraphrase is longer than the original quote. Survivor of the Great Crash of 2011
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Re: Ideas for Gadgets/Devises [message #33643 is a reply to message #33638 ] Sun, 29 March 2009 03:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
tensai is currently offline tensai
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Anvildude wrote on Sat, 28 March 2009 23:59

Devise: Portable tap. Looks like a faucet without a sink, or pipes, attached. Actually uses subspace transmission to get water from a properly fitted water main. Can be tuned to connect to different liquid sources, if they're properly prepared, so it could either produce water, or soda, or blood, if there's a tapped source of the proper liquid.


This actually reminds me of SCP-294: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-294

Coffee machine with some of the same properties you're talking about.

[Updated on: Sun, 29 March 2009 03:26]

"It took her some time to accept that with such wings, her soul would never soar--but the fact that she could kick a man's lungs out through his spine was ultimately some small consolation." -ursulav
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Re: Ideas for Gadgets/Devises [message #33644 is a reply to message #33616 ] Sun, 29 March 2009 03:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
oljak.eru is currently offline oljak.eru
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I'd like to see a whole team equipped in steampunk. Everything steampunk. Real steam power. And just as efficient as the best electronics, hydraulics, combustion powered, plasma powered systems etc.

“I am SO level-headed! And anyone who says different is going to have to answer to... The CABBIT OF DOOM!” -Jade
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Re: Ideas for Gadgets/Devises [message #33646 is a reply to message #33616 ] Sun, 29 March 2009 04:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Nocte is currently offline Nocte
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I'd like to see someone make power armor like Samus Arans'. Problem is that the devisor/gadgeteer who made it doesn't exactly know what parts are Gadgets and which parts are Devises. Obviously the Ball morph and PID are devises, but it gets tricky when the arm cannon is involved. Unfortunately, Phazon is Alien Phlebetonuim, which the canon authors have banned the usage of. Add to that Nintendo might get angry in-universe if someone starts calling themselves Samus and this gadget/devise combo won't be seeing the light of day in the WU.

"On the other hand, maybe all this could have been avoided if you just managed to get laid once in a while. You can't even tell me you'd be this tightly wound if you were receiving Treasure Type O regularly" Roy Greenhilt
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Re: Ideas for Gadgets/Devises [message #33650 is a reply to message #33646 ] Sun, 29 March 2009 06:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
A-Eadie is currently offline A-Eadie
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Sounds like a good Halloween costume. Very Happy

My devisor/mage character will eventually make the magical equivalent of nanotechnology, and will end up with something similar to the Witchblade when mithril is added to the mix.

Other than that . . . if you have seen the Valkyrie anime, there is a catgirl transformation gun.

Ash vs. the Army of Pokemon: Pikachu! I choose you! k-chk BOOM Shop smart, shop Poke-mart
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Re: Ideas for Gadgets/Devises [message #33654 is a reply to message #33644 ] Sun, 29 March 2009 10:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Sir Lee is currently offline Sir Lee
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oljak.eru wrote on Sun, 29 March 2009 04:28

I'd like to see a whole team equipped in steampunk. Everything steampunk. Real steam power. And just as efficient as the best electronics, hydraulics, combustion powered, plasma powered systems etc.


So, Professor Steamhead meets The Difference Engine meets The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?

Don't call me Shirley. You will surely make me surly.
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Re: Ideas for Gadgets/Devises [message #33663 is a reply to message #33616 ] Sun, 29 March 2009 11:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The problem with Steampunk in the Whateley setting, is that the Steampunk ethos is 'Bigger Is Better'. BIG boilers. BIG pistons. MASSIVE arrays of cams and shafts. A steampunk suit of 'power armor' would be the size of Tiny Tim, and well, then you start talking scale problems and it all goes downhill at an amazing rate of speed.

To Be, or Not to Be; this is a question?
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Re: Ideas for Gadgets/Devises [message #33664 is a reply to message #33663 ] Sun, 29 March 2009 11:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
oljak.eru is currently offline oljak.eru
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Well, but I love the style. How I wish my computers could be as stylish as these:

http://static.iftk.com.br/mt/2007/11/most_amazing_notebook_c asemod.html
http://boiler.steampunkworkshop.com/daveveloz.shtml

“I am SO level-headed! And anyone who says different is going to have to answer to... The CABBIT OF DOOM!” -Jade
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Re: Ideas for Gadgets/Devises [message #33666 is a reply to message #33616 ] Sun, 29 March 2009 12:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Has a Devisor ever got together with a Mage to make a Golem-Tiny Tim hybrid bigger and better than any alone could achieve?
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Re: Ideas for Gadgets/Devises [message #33680 is a reply to message #33644 ] Sun, 29 March 2009 16:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Anvildude is currently offline Anvildude
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I can do that.

It's a sad thing when your paraphrase is longer than the original quote. Survivor of the Great Crash of 2011
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Re: Ideas for Gadgets/Devises [message #33737 is a reply to message #33638 ] Sun, 29 March 2009 20:50 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Anvildude wrote on Sat, 28 March 2009 23:59

Devise: Portable tap. Looks like a faucet without a sink, or pipes, attached. Actually uses subspace transmission to get water from a properly fitted water main. Can be tuned to connect to different liquid sources, if they're properly prepared, so it could either produce water, or soda, or blood, if there's a tapped source of the proper liquid.


Two words: Devisor Coffee!

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