YOU CAN HAVE ONE! Sorta. Still awfully fun, though…
A copy of The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy would be nice. I mean the book of course, not just the series of novels about the book.
What would be even better is if it came with an Electronic Thumb-o-matic, and/or a Babel Fish.
That was Troi’s fault.
Gosh darned women drivers!
Either an industrial-grade unifab or a nanofactury of the same size. With a complete plan library, of course.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Mark II version preferably, but then I’d just have to give it to Arthur)
A towel. Oh, wait, right. Got that one.
A Sonic Screwdriver
The Tardis
K-9
A Tasp
One self-replicating, ‘telepathically’ programmable nanobot.
Gateway (The entire asteroid, with ships, counts as one ‘gadget’ right?)
A Berzerker (Programmed to think I’m non-organic, and obey my orders, of course)
Gay Deceiver
and, just for fun, Inspector Gadget himself.
Bah, that thing is made of plywood. I bet a mecha with flamethrowers on the arms would burn that faux battlemech to a crisp.
Definitely my own personal holodeck. But preferably one whose built-in “let’s not kill people in here” rules don’t go wonky every few days and leave me fighting for my life.
Cant remember the book, but a body full of nanites, the kind that are programmed to regulate the body and keep it healthy, actually keeping the teeth brushed, no gunk in the pores so no acne or oily hair, or eye snot, and strip out my uterine lining so I dont have my period, and regulate my hormones so I dont get cramps, and eat virus and non homeostatic bacteria so i dont get sick, and can go in and neutralize any ingested or inhaled microbes…and can repair the pre-existing body damage so my back and joints arent crapped out.
I dont want to live forever, I am just sick and tired of being sick and tired=
No more PCOS, thyroid problems, acne, menstrual cramps, lung damage from phosgene, cruddy eyesight, TONSOLITHS , and orthopedic problems…but a good solid 3 score and 10 …hell, I had a maiden aunt who died at 107, and a grandmother that died in her upper 90s on my fathers side, and my maternal grandfather kicked off at 97 on my mothers side, and both my parents are 82 and very actively spending our inheritance traveling every year=) [and I wouldnt have them any other way…let them enjoy it, my dad worked his whole life and it is their money=) I dread getting that phone call]
A Somebody Else’s Problem field would come in really handy many days.
Then again, considering the level of congnitive dissonance in the defense industry, it wouldn’t suprise me if the government has already recovered an SEP generator from one of the alien spacecraft they are hiding in Area 51.
Why yes, I do listen to “Coast To Coast AM” every night. Why do you ask?
Stranger
No, I don’t really listen to Coast To Coast. It’s called sarcasm.
A transporter, definitely. Hungering for some home-cooked food? Pop back home to NJ for dinner. Late for work? Instant commute. Need to go to Target and get some food, but no one will drive because it’s snowing? Zap, no problem.
Life would be good.
I’d like one of those pens that writes upside down. You know, like the astronauts use.
Welcome, hewe!
One of my first threads was very similar. (made Threadspotting even) Just goes to show ya, good ideas are timeless.
I’ll still have to go with Trek style replicators. Then, all I would need is copies of all of y’all’s stuff and I would have all those things, too. 
Just make sure Jack Clompus doesn’t want it back.
Just use a pencil.
Actually, that demonstrates a good difference between the US space program and the USSR/Russian one:
Objective: Writing device to be used in microgravity.
Solution (NASA): Spend $250,000 in research to develop a $50 pen. Sell extras to credulous American consumers as “Space Pens, as seen on the Apollo program!”
Solution (RSP): Send ambassador out to office supply store to buy $10.49 per box of 72 #2 wood pencils from stupid imperialist dogs. Send pencils back in diplomatic pouch. Shoot courier for security reasons. Scrape the labels/printing off the pencils. Explain to Politburo that purchase of said pencils from imperialst dogs was not a demonstration of inferiority of Marxist economic theory, but only due to a temporary correction of the Soviet office supply industry. Issue press release announing new and increased quotas for pencil production in the next Five Year Plan. Send to gulag anyone who questions why industry didn’t meet the quota in the last Five Year Plan.
Everybody does things their own way. :rolleyes:
Stranger
An executive shuttlecraft with a dedicated holosuite aboard, and some kind of long-term power supply.
I’d just get in, and park it in a stable solar orbit. With a subroutine set up to vent the atmosphere and set course for the edge of the galaxy for when I eventually died.
Maybe we should make this “Scifi gadgets BESIDES a BTL device that you’d like to have.”
Personal forcefield.
I give you Snopage.
In Short: Fisher was not commisioned to develop the pen and did not charge NASA for the R&D. Before there were the pens, both Astronauts and Cosmonauts used pencils. After development, both Astronauts and Cosmonauts used the space pen.
Oh and back on topic, I want me a Light Sabre.
-DF
Argh! Simulpost, caught just as I submitted!
-DF
Does the entire Borg collective count as a gadget?