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This jamming device looks like an old communicator or paging device, with a single button on its surface. | This jamming device looks like an old communicator or paging device, with a single button on its surface. | ||
=== Darkvision Film === | |||
An older technology, but one which is still useful is darkvision film. It captures stray electromagnetic emissions, both inside and outside the normal visual range, and converts them to light for the user of the film. Darkvision film requires a small current to operate, so a power cell of some sort is needed. Generally, it is used as a backup system for emergencies as much better systems are available. But it is easy for an agent to store the film and parts for a disassembled chemical power cell on his person so that the film and power source are very difficult to detect. | |||
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Most sensitive installations have automated warning systems set up to detect the firing of beam weapons such as phasers and disruptors. Therefore, OSFI gives its field agents a sonic knife, which essentially uses hypersonic waves to create its cutting blade. Such a blade is undetectable to almost all security systems, even when in use. It can be used several times before needing to be recharges, and is at least as sharp as the sharpest metal blade; however, it does fall short of the cutting abilities of other energy blades. | Most sensitive installations have automated warning systems set up to detect the firing of beam weapons such as phasers and disruptors. Therefore, OSFI gives its field agents a sonic knife, which essentially uses hypersonic waves to create its cutting blade. Such a blade is undetectable to almost all security systems, even when in use. It can be used several times before needing to be recharges, and is at least as sharp as the sharpest metal blade; however, it does fall short of the cutting abilities of other energy blades. | ||
=== Microcomputer === | |||
Hardly unique to special operations use, small computer interface terminals can be build into devices of similar size to the older Personal Access Display Device. The most advanced of these confine all of the memory and networking electronics into small bars down each side of a flexible, collapsible screen and use a virtual interface through a securely networked set of eyeglasses or, less commonly -- both for power and security reasons -- a small holographic projector. The key feature of an intelligence microcomputers, other than its small size, is the ability to connect over an exceptionally broad range of frequencies to almost any possible computer network. | |||
Microcomputers differ from intelligence tricorders in that they generally lack sensors of their own, though they can network with sensors, and so are even more compact than their cousins. | |||