Futuristic Inventions

[Tariniel he/him]

I am writing one of my first science fiction stories, and have benefited greatly from brainstorming groups before. I would be awesome if we started a thread where we just throw around ideas for advancements that could be found in a futuristic world. It's incredible how starting a discussion about something sparks ideas and opens roads that you had never noticed before.

Recently, I've been playing around with the idea of weapons that target the nervous system. This technology could be expanded in thousands of different ways, but I'm focusing more on pain enhancement aspect. Think about it, if we had guns that activated pain nerves, we could quickly incapacitate people, without doing any real physical harm. This would be a great help to the police and really any other enforcement agency. It could also be used in a couple of negative ways... What do you guys think?

[King's wit he/him]

You could ave a Gun that fired a "Sound Inducing Incapacitating Device" Or SIID for short, the weapon would fire soundlessly, but the impact of the projectile would create a HUGE MENTAL noise that would cause pain then knock the person unconscious.

[EthanBassett he/him]

On 10/11/2016 at 11:26 AM, Tariniel said:

Recently, I've been playing around with the idea of weapons that target the nervous system.

The Nervous System works via a series of electronic pulses so it is possible to make dead animals move and stimulate organisms with electronic pulses. The idea of a weapon that could provide electronic stimulus and even produce severe pain without causing harm is a cool idea. 

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

11 hours ago, King's wit said:

You could ave a Gun that fired a "Sound Inducing Incapacitating Device" Or SIID for short, the weapon would fire soundlessly, but the impact of the projectile would create a HUGE MENTAL noise that would cause pain then knock the person unconscious.

So in other words, Cyborg's White Noise Cannon, go look it up.

[ScarletSabre he/him]

In one of my many RPs with my friends, I came up with a way to mimic Lashings/Pushes and Pulls in a couple of sci-fi settings, using complete gobbledygook and soft magic rules.

One was a belt with an electromagnetic buckle that connected to darts that fired from a special gun. The darts would fly out, and two seconds after the prongs impacted/embedded something the charge would activate, and depending on if you fired a repel or attract dart, they would be drawn to or repelled from your centre of gravity, or you to/from them if the object was heavier than you.

The other was like the handle of a whip, moulded to fit the hand of the user, with a button for the thumb to press and slide up and down a small groove, as well with triggers under the fingers. It was a magnetic leash, using essentially a beam of magnetism to tether you to a point opposite the top of the handle. You would aim the top at something metal, and engage the leash, tethering you to that point on an invisible, intangable coil. The button/slider was a throttle, controlling how much you were attracted to something, allowing my friend's character, a corporate espionage agent, to lower himself down from a metal roof slowly, and then attract himself back up to his spaceship as it flew by, dangling in the air behind it like a kite on an invisible string, reeling himself in by pressing the throttle up more.

[aeromancer he/him]

@TarinielI think this thread is an awesome idea, and I love playing around with sci-fi ideas. I will warn you that I''m a bit of a hard sci-fi fan though.

Hmm, about your gun idea... In Isaac Asimov's End of Eternity he mentions that the protagonist mentions that the organization known as Eternity literally rewrites history to prevent a weapon from being created. Said weapon targets only nerves and stuns the target through sheer pain. Maybe you'd rather have a gun that doesn't target pain nerves exactly, but more affects the neural networks as a whole, and just scrambles it, rending the target incoherent. Then, someone with a bit of of technical know-how could alter said weapon for more interesting effects.

Once where on the subject, how do you feel about a self repeating organic virus a la the gray goo scenario?

Edited November 15, 2016 by aeromancer