If you could have any sci fi device, what would it be?

[jat112786]

teleporters, hoverbikes, exploding collars, space ships, robots, sentient computers, the list goes on. So tell me escapist, what sci fi device would want?

I for one would like an infinite improbability drive

i was gonna say that or the guide itself

 

[Juraz]

A death star with grates welded over all the God damn holes so the rebels can't keep getting in there. Like rats they are.

Or at least put turrets in the bloody trench

UEF ACU, i win.

EDIT: imagine a giant robot capable of mining the entire planet, building an army and capabable of customizationa dn eventually Using Quantum jump technology to "jump" to any planet i wish.

Hell yeah but maybe a Cybran one instead however I love the UEF's Fatboy

 

[MorganL4]

Everybody should say Lightsaber cause its the goddamn truth everybody wants one.

I don't, LASERS DON'T JUST STOP!

Actually the "Light Saber" is very possible theoretically as a Plasma Sword. All we have to do is figure out the magnetic containment field for the Plasma to keep it hot inside but cool out side the field. Second comes a power source small enough to fit on a sword like weapon. Give it time and the military will figure that out.

with our current knowledge of physics, if you were to use plasma to make a lightsaber, it would be more effective to kill someone by throwing them in a room with the lightsaber and shutting the door, than to actually try using it as a sword.

 

[jat112786]

what about the Point-of-view gun?

 

[Tibike77]

Star Trek teleporters for sure.

Out of that, I'd reverse-engineer [...](everything)[...]

Classical teleportation like a Star Trek teleporter cannot generate energy sources (it doesn't involve straight conversion of matter to energy, only transcription/encoding of matter; otherwise they wouldn't use anti-matter engines), cannot replicate (again, doesn't dictate usage of e^2 = m^2c^4 (the real equation), along with no-clone theorem of quantum mechanics), or modulate photons into particles with rest mass (necessary for a holodeck).

Well, Star Trek is very "soft" Sci-Fi (as you can see described on http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness ), so it's a LOT more like fantasy than science-fiction (a lot of F, barely any S).
Asking for some Star Trek (or, for that matter, Star Wars) technology is much like asking for an unicorn or a Harry Potter spell wand, the basic principle of operation is the same (namely "it works because otherwise we have no show").

IF a device ever existed that would work according to all things told/seen on-screen about the Star Trek teleporter, ignoring all the rest of Star Trek (because frankly it would make no sense anyway), then you could do all the things I mentioned when you reverse-engineer it.
Heh.

 

[Tartarga]

the tardis from doctor who, i really want to screw with history

 

[Spitfire175]

I want the "Normandy N7" on my backyard.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Portable teleporter. Go anywhere i want.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

I'll take some kind Doomsday Device. Then I'll contact the UN and demand 1 million dollars.

 

[quiet_samurai]

The spice.

While not actually a "device," it's...
Well.
You know.

That's what I was thnking. The Spice must flow.

Something that pauses all space and time would be cool.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Psychic paper.

Extremely ninja'd.

 

[madcap2112]

Sonic Screwdriver

 

[Strategia]

Tricorder. Preferably the one from the TNG era, with the detachable scan head.

 

[blaze96]

This one is difficult, but I would have to say SARAH from Eureka. I would love to have a house that could do all the stuff she can.

 

[esperandote]

soni from i robot.

 

[quiet_samurai]

Everybody should say Lightsaber cause its the goddamn truth everybody wants one.

I don't, LASERS DON'T JUST STOP!

Actually the "Light Saber" is very possible theoretically as a Plasma Sword. All we have to do is figure out the magnetic containment field for the Plasma to keep it hot inside but cool out side the field. Second comes a power source small enough to fit on a sword like weapon. Give it time and the military will figure that out.

First, your very basis is incorrect: a plasma sword is not a light saber. It is comparing apples and very highly heated electron/proton gas, I mean, oranges. Light sabers supposedly use crystals and other such nonsense that sounded quite plausible back before all of this was understood, but laughable in terms of todays technology. And yes, the name DOES matter; it isn't generic quite yet.

As for plasma containment fields, you've completely missed the wrong end of the wrong point; the trick isn't keeping the plasma hot on the inside and cool on the outside, the trick is keeping the plasma still while you wave it like a willy nilly.

Given theoretical concerns based on the ideal gas laws (which plasma, as a non-degenerate state of matter very similar to gas, fits quite readily), there is no method by which a magnetic or even color induction field technology would EVER be a plausible method of containing plasma for melee based combat in the most ideal environment, let alone one with such a thick atmosphere, destabalizing the plasma current and rendering the power source unreasonably large.

That isn't to say we couldn't power the damn thing, only that any such device would be infinitely more useful as any of the MYRIAD of far more effective weapons possible: efficiency rates on even the best theoretical magnetic shielding are FAR below the yield of even the least efficient laser, which is ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE below even the least efficient mass driver.

tl;dr? While you are wasting energy running your plasma sword, the military will be using the orders of magnitude higher efficiencies of a coil gun to ram tau particles at 99.98 percent light speed into you.

And yes, that is actually an accurate assessment, given standard knowledge about tau particle mass, the max efficiencies of electromagnetic bubble design, and thermal inefficiencies associated with plasma.

Well excuse me. I just saw a special on the History Channel of the "Science of Star Wars". Some scientists said a "Light Saber" is impossible as "light/laser" can not be contained as a Star Wars Light Saber is depicted. It is impossible. So the only way to make a "Light Saber" is with plasma they said. I also never argued for the practicality of it. I just said that it will be possible some day in the future.

I also said I want a Holo Deck from Star Trek so I can rent that shit out to millionaires for billions of dollars. What the fuck would I do with a Light Saber? Having one would get a person arrested very quickly. The only thing it is good for is killing people.

I saw that same show, it was interesting. And anyone that argues the practicallity of a clearly make believe item set in a clearly make believe universe is just being a dick and trying to show off their smarts, so don't worry about them.

 

[BlindTom]

I'll have an entire body, ghost in the shell style please, or possibly some Deus Ex style nano-augmentation.

 

[Azraellod]

...does the geass count as a device?

...the deathnote then?

fine, fusion and fission technology will do.

 

[JRCB]

Either a TARDIS, or the Sonic Screwdriver.