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Aladdin Systems:
Not Your Greatmother’s Autoservants

Who could imagine life without autoservants? They cook and clean for us, tend our homes and businesses, keep everything in good repair, and take care of our every need. Servs and mechs and cybs are indispensable to modern life.

Yet how often do you think about your autoservants? If you’re like most people, seldom. You inherited them, or they came with your home, your business, your ship. They work perfectly—and when they don’t, mechs fix them.

Would it surprise you to know that your autoservants may have been in service for thousands of years? It seems incredible, yet it’s true: the average autoservant in today’s galaxy dates back to the days of the Terran Empire.

What garbage must fill your poor serv’s circuits? Think of the inevitable bloat and clutter of that long a lifetime. Your grandfather’s drink preferences. Great-Aunt Matilda’s favorite breakfasts. The social schedules of a hundred generations. Millennia of trivia.

At Aladdin Systems, we specialize in making old autoservants new again. We’ll clean out your servs’ memories, peel away generations of clutter, and update their software with state-of-the-art routines. You’ll find that your autoservants are more responsive, more efficient, better able to serve.

Touch here to contact a representative for a consultation.

Thank you for choosing RCSpex™

Features

• Eidolon-265 450 GHz processor
• Fully FLBLA-compliant for assured compatibility
• Rechargeable 12-day battery
• Adjustable earpieces for comfortable fit
• Stereo bone-conduction speakers & microphones
• Continuous eye-tracking allows operation by eye movements
• Retinal scan provides perfect security
• Built-in configuration program
• Five operating modes: Transparent, Basic Computing, Virtua, Cyberbia, El Juego
• Distinctive styling

Quick Start

A built-in configuration program allows you to begin using your RCSpex™ immediately.

1. Put on your RCSpex™
2. Adjust the flexible earpieces for the most comfortable fit.
3. Locate the on/off switch, where the right earpiece joins the lens assembly.
4. Click and hold the on/off switch for ten seconds to activate the configuration program.
5. Arcy, our animated mascot, will guide you through the configuration process.

NOTE: If you currently wear corrective lenses (glasses or contact lenses), please have your lenses available. RCSpex™ will scan your lenses to determine their optical properties. RCSpex™ will then adjust its own display to match the effect of your lenses.

Modes

Cycle modes by clicking the mode switch, located where the left earpiece joins the lens assembly. (Optionally, you can use the configuration program to set up an eye movement that will switch modes.)

1.  Transparent Mode: RCSpex™ display an unprocessed view of the real world. Options: Time/date display, Incoming mail alert, Continuous audio-visual record

2.  Basic Computing Mode: Real-world image is overlaid with a windowing environment that can be used for data processing, communications, and interface with your personal or business computer systems.

3.  Virtua: RCSpex™ display Virtual enhancements of the real world. NOTE: RCSpex™ can be set to transmit your own Virtual persona so that others will see you the way you want to be seen. (Construction of virtual personae images requires additional software.)

4.  Cyberbia: RCSpex™ are your portal into the limitless realm of cyberspace. Simple navigation controls respond to eye movements, allowing you to travel through Cyberbia at will. Conduct business transactions, visit with friends, play interactive team games, learn, teach, view virties, read books, surf the Nets.

5.  El Juego: RCSpex™ take you into the richest and wildest gaming environment ever. Play your existing character(s), or establish new ones.
 

Get the News You Want…the Way You Want It!

Newshound™ is the most sophisticated news-retrieval agent available on this or any other planet. Newshound™ quickly learns your interests and preferences, then embarks on an unceasing quest throughout the Net. Twenty-four hours a day, Newshound™ seeks out the news you want, then delivers it at your convenience.

Fully FLBLA-compliant, Newshound™ fits into any existing suite of agents with no conflict. It can even improve the operation of your other agents. Cutting-edge Daciax cognitive routines make Newshound™ faster, sleeker, and more discriminating than any other agent on the market.

When it comes time to present the news, Newshound™ does it in any style you choose. Create your own format and presenter, or use any of over a hundred pre-set configurations, including:

• Walter Cronkite
• IzvestiaNet
• Max Headroom
• Valerie Chen
• Bugs Bunny
• Lois Lane
• WNN
• Pope Theresa 
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Bhagavad-Gita
• Saint Paul
• Nostradamus
• Ernie Pyle
• H. L. Mencken
• Jubal Harshaw
• Marella Tao
• Khfeurb Chee Bez
• Chevy Chase

. . . and many, many more.

If you care about what goes on in the world, you can’t afford to be without Newshound™. Base configuration starts at only ¤ 99.95. Contact sales@daktek.umj
 

Miruvorane, released in 2014 CE, was the first of a class of so-called "benign antivirals," engineered pharmeceuticals designed to fight viruses. Unfortunately, miruvorane proved to be a powerful mutagenic; after over 15,000 affected births in less than a year, the drug was taken off the market.

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To find out more about Drowz-Eze™, visit sales.tecnid.com.
 

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CIC: The Next Generation in Power Plants

…Clean, safe, inexhaustible—how does this miraculous power source work?

The Controlled Isotopic Conversion (CIC) process uses minerals mined from deep within the Earth’s crust, where temperatures are much higher than on the surface. Purified and concentrated, these minerals provide a great deal of natural heat. This heat is collected and used to boil water; the water then turns turbines which produce electricity.

Unlike conventional gas-, oil-, or coal-fired power plants, CIC processors produce little ash. What residue remains from the process is easily handled and can be safely disposed of; it offers considerably less of an environmental danger than the toxic waste products of most other power plants.

The minerals that power CIC are abundant throughout the world, and thanks to robotic mining methods, can be easily retrieved from the crust without massive environmental damage or health risks to human miners. There are enough CIC minerals in the crust to meet the world’s energy needs for hundreds of thousands of years.

And don’t worry about radioactivity, either. CIC minerals finish the process with no more than the natural level of radioactivity that they started with in the ground. In many ways, CIC is even safer than nature!

The choice is clear…CIC is the power of the future— and of today.
To find out more, contact PowerWeb Ltd. at info.pweb.umj

(July 2042 CE)

Device for exchange of money in First Terran Empire.

Personal communications/organization unit, in use from c. 2010 CE.

From c. TE 75, manufacturers of sapient computers which closely mimicked Human thought processes. During the First Terran Empire and Interregnum, Borshallan Artificial Intelligences produced a series of increasingly-sophisticated sapient computers.

Sapient Computer Series

(N.B. Each series represents an improvement by a factor of about 1,000 over the previous series.)

Series 1: Valkyrie

In production: c. 2300 - 2500 (TE 150 - 350)
Representative Models: Valkyrie 6000 (Brynhilde, Morrigu)

Series 2: Svarth

In production: c. 2500 - 3000
Representative Models: Svarth 2000

Series 3: Jotun

In production: c. 3000 - 4500
Representative Models: Jotun 250

Series 4: Lichtalf

In production: c. 4500 - 5000
Representative Models: Lichtalf 12

Series 5: Muspel

In production: c. 5000 - 5700
Representative Models: Muspel 3000

Series 6: Norn

In production: c. 5700 - 7600
Representative Models: Norn 560

Series 7: Aesir

In production: c. 7600 - 8200
Representative Models: Aesir 3800

Series 8: Loki

In production: c. 8200
Only five Loki-series AIs were ever made:
1000: Loki
2000: Sigyn
3000: Fenris
4000: Hela
5000: Angrboda (still at large)
All but Angrboda were destroyed by the Yggdrasil series, which were constructed for that purpose.

Series 9: Yggdrasil

In production: c. 8300 CE - 20,400 H.E.
Representative Models: Yggdrasil 5000

Series 10: Ragnarok

In production: from c. 20,400 H.E.
Representative Models: Ragnarok 8000, Nulli Secundus