PERSONAL DEVICES

OpNet Account: OpNet accounts are capable of receiving text, voice, visual
and/or holographic messages from any other OpNet account. The telephone
has been in practice more or less supplanted by the OpNet terminal even in
the OpNet-unfriendly FSA.  Portable op-net terminals typically are only 
able to transmit and receive text, voice and visual materials.

Maintenance robots: Most homes have a little group of scurrying, automatic
mouselike robots to take care of the floors, toilets and so forth. They
learn your schedule (if such a thing is possible) and only come out when
you're not home or if they need maintenance.  In the poorer sections of
town, they tend to be more limited, perhaps only handling plumbing and
certain sections of carpet before limping back to their little rechargers.

Cooking ovens: Ovens that make their own fresh food exist, and are even
common. However, fresh food is not something that the poor in urban areas
of the FSA can really get, and so they have to make do with prepackaged
food.  On the other hand, this prepackaged food has significantly
increased in variety and quality.  In rural areas of the FSA, though,
fresh fruit, vegetables and meat are very common, and there has been
something of a resurgence of the old tradition of mealtimes being the
social center of the day as a result.  Fast food restaurants are almost
always completely automated.  However, the hand-cooked meal is always
considered superior no matter how expensive or inexpensive it may be.
(i.e. it's considerd better to buy a hot dog from a vendor on the street
than a pizza from the Pizza Belle automat down the street, no matter how
good the pizza there is.)

Computer interface: Computer interface is still either with a keyboard or
with voice dictation. The population is essentially split on which is
better, because of different ways of learning (visual as opposed to audio)
- fortunately, it's fantastically cheap to do either well, and most
computers come with both interfaces.  About half the keyboards are 
holo-projected keyboards which can be customized to fit users preferences 
and minimize wrist strain.

BodyNet Adapter: This is the nearest thing to cybernetics that the Trinity
world has developed. This adapter allows any electronic device to be
controlled by small movements of the fingers independent of any other
adapter. It consists of a fairly tight wristband and a small set of very
generic plugins to the device. The adapter uses microelectric impulses
across the skin of the hand to determine the movements, with the added
advantage of being able to connect directly to other adapters simply with
a handshake.  It is, however, very expensive. (Trinity Technology Guide)

Mini-Rebreather: A small folding face-mask connected to a fist-sized
oxygen supply, usually worn around the neck. The refillable tank lasts for
half an hour. It's practically required to own at least one of these in
Los Angeles. Hence, they are relatively inexpensive. (Trinity Technology
Guide)

Vidspecs: These eyeglasses allow 2D recording of what is seen. Although
this is key for investigative journalists, 3D holography with independent
cameras is still the main format for shows and movies. The very basic
vidspecs are not too expensive, although with the add-ons, it can become
extremely, extremely expensive. Add-ons include variable electronic optics
to allow the wearer to magnify distant objects up to 10 times normal
vision, additional memory space to improve the storage capabilities of the
glasses from 20 hours of storage to 500, a high-grade directional
microphone to improve audio quality and depth, hologram filtering features
that will eliminate all legal frequencies of hologram transmissions,
infrared and ultraviolet optics, and cellular uplink for immediate
realtime broadcast or transmission. (The realtime uplink is illegal in the
FSA without a permit.) (Trinity Technology Guide)

Directional Microphone Pen: This looks (and writes) like an ordinary
ballpoint pen, but is capable of recording and amplifying whispers from 5
meters away, normal conversation from 30 meters away, and louder sounds
even beyond that. It can record up to 100 hours of sound before you need
to upload it. This device isn't illegal in the FSA, however, if
identified, it's awfully suspicious. It's not all that expensive. (Trinity
Technology Guide)

Voice-Stress Bracelet: This is essentially a voice stress analyzer device
implanted into a small decorative bracelet. It has no superior qualities
to ordinary voice-stress analyzers, but it can be used surrepititiously.
It's pretty expensive. (Trinity Technology Gude)

Grippers: You know those suction cups that spies and thieves use in the
movies? Well, these are like those except better. They have a
biotechnological glue and glue neutralizer that allows you to even climb
up sheer, slick or wet surfaces. Only specially made plastics can resist
grippers' glue. They're not very expensive, but unless you're on a
mountain climbing trip, they're a bit suspicious.

Wingpack: This psion-formatted piece of biotechnology allows the wearer to
fly actively for one hour, or soar and swoop more or less indefinitely. It
has about an eight-foot wingspan and uses specially enahanced musculature
and telekinesis to lift the user, plus about 100 kg more. (No
piggybacking. Sorry.)  This biotechnology is licensed in the FSA. Also,
flying is frowned upon in urban areas, as maglev vehicles are often in the
air.  Wingpacks are very expensive. (Trinity Technology Guide) (Note that 
psion-formatted technology can only be used by psions.)

VEHICLES

Groundcars: Groundcars are simply electric cars. They cost about as much
as cars do today.

Skimmers: Skimmers are electric cars that hover. They can cross a much
wider variety of surfaces much more easily, however, they need recharging
much more often. They tend to cost about as much as cars do today.  This 
is far more common in LA than a groundcar.

Maglev skimmer: Maglev skimmers are the oft-promised "flying car". They
guzzle energy like crazy, but can go in 3 dimensions. They cost about what
a luxury car does today.

You can expect to increase the price of a vehicle for various add-ons,
like armor, extra speed, convertibility, the "North African Option", which
is a static field to keep dust and sand from touching the car, and so
forth.

Amphibicars: These are of limited usefulness outside of "flooded cities"
like Los Angeles, (the real) Venice, and Middle Florida, so they would
normally be quite expensive. However, government subsidies tend to push
the price down. They are almost always primarily either ground vehicles or
water vehicles, and the other function of the vehicle suffers as a result.


WEAPONS

Poison Glove: This lovely piece of biotechnology (illegal in the FSA, most
common in Central and South America), has thousands of tiny stinger cells,
similar to those on a sea anemone. They can deliver a lethal or nonlethal
poison so long as you can grab someone's bare skin with it. There is a
non-psion version of the glove which is activated by touching the
wristband and charged up by soaking it in a small nutrient bath (different
baths for the lethal and nonlethal poisons).  Psions who use the glove
don't need to recharge it - the glove recharges itself with the desired
poison from the biological energy of the psion themselves.  The lethal
poison does 3d damage and the nonlethal poison painfully incapacitates the
target into unconsciousness for 1-3 hours. Both can be resisted with a
roll against HT.  The weapon is fairly expensive even in South America.
There is a poison knife version which, because of the smaller line of
stinging cells only delivers 1 hour of unconsciousness or 1d+3 points of
damage. (Trinity Technology Guide)

Sonic Knife: This rather unlikely piece of hardtech disrupts organic
material with sound feedback that extends about six inches, invisibly,
from the hilt. However, nonorganic material does indeed block the blade
completely.  The weapon can be set to stun or kill - either way the damage
is your Swing (yes, that's the same as hitting someone with a sword).
Because this is a very new piece of technology with fairly limited
applications, it's very, very expensive. However, security forces on space
stations tend to like it very much, since you can't accidentally ventilate
the station with it.  On the other hand, anti-psion terrorists also like
it, because you can slice through biotech - even biotech armor - with it.
(Trinity Technology Guide)

Vibroblade: Vibroblade technology has just been allowed to leave Nippon.
This orbital-steel blade can be made to vibrate thousands of times a
second, allowing it to cut through nearly anything, given time. It also
does plenty of extra damage: sw+3/thr. (Thrusting the vibroblade makes the
vibration rather pointless, and it's not really done.) Since this is
another very new piece of technology, it's extremely very expensive and
not many people know how to use them yet. (Trinity Technology Guide).

Coil Carbine: These railgun-style carbines are not the top of the line as
far as small, rapid-fire arms go.  In fact, they're really not all that
much better than the assault rifles of a hundred years before, with a few
exceptions: because it's powered by a magnetic pulse, the barrel doesn't
get hot - because the magnetic pulse is directed, there's no appreciable
recoil - and because it's an electric-powered gun, there's very little
sound (only the bullet breaking the sound barrier) - because slugs are
essentially just steel spheres, ammunition is much cheaper.  There are
assault cannons that are much better, but the carbine is the most
cost-effective way to arm a large number of people with good firepower.
It's illegal to have in the FSA without a government permit, and is very
expensive (though very competitive in price with other weapons.) (Trinity
Technology Guide.) Damage: 6d, SS: 14, Acc: 9, RoF: 60/3 Clip: 60 (yes,
you can rip the clip in one round). Rcl: 0.  (Trinity Technology Guide)

Plasma Pistol: In a way, this gun is the energy-weapon version of the
Desert Eagle - too much recoil to be good for repeat shots, but in the
hands of a skilled user, powerful enough not to need repeat shots. It's
illegal in the FSA and still not quite competitive with ordinary
slugthrowing high caliber handguns in terms of price, even counting in the
need for ammunition.  Damage: 5d.  RoF: 1. Clip: 10. Rcl: -3. (Trinity
Technology Guide)

Anti-Pursuit Liquids: These capsules, about the size of two fists atop
each other, contain compressed liquid that hinders pursuit: Stickum (hard
to run across), BadFumes (causes nausea and vomiting), and the more
illegal FireFun, in which encapsilated reactive materials are suspended in
an aqueous flammable gel. It's fine until someone steps on it. Then foom.
It's a bit pricey as far as canisters of stuff go, but not too bad as far
as weapons go. (Chromebook 4.)

Nanopaper: One of the first widespread uses of nanotechnology, this
high-security paper will dissolve into untraceable dust when you shine a
particular sort of light on it. It's about four dollars per page.
(Chromebook 4.)


MILITARY STUFF

This is stuff that I see being almost exclusively in the hands of the
military simply because it's not very useful outside a military context.
Because this isn't a military game, I'm not really going to go into much
detail.

TechnoDyne "Jupiter" Lightning Gun: It's a tripod-mounted biotechnological
device that, yes, shoots lightning. It was mostly constructed for
anti-vehicle and EMP uses, but it nicely fries anyone in or near the
vehicle, too. (Trinity Technology Guide)

Pulse Cannon: This is a laser-guided particle stream accelerator cannon
that requires a crew of two to fire and is used against large vehicles and
Aberrants. It's standard fare in military forces around the world, having
been introduced nearly thirty years ago in an Aberrant attack against a
FSA space fortress. (Trinity Technology Guide)

VARG and bioVARGs: These are hardtech and biotech versions of giant robot
suits (though they're only mildly giant - usually standing about 10-20
feet tall). These allow Legion and other military forces to at least stand
some chance in a toe-to-toe fight against minor and moderately powered
Aberrants, though because of their speed and power, they are useful in a
wide variety of military situations. The limiting factor on both is price
- bioVARGs have the additional limitation of requiring a psion to pilot
them. Naturally the adventures of VARG pilots are a favorite topic for
"reality holo" shows.