AmeriCard Express - CredChip Safety Switch by Night Flyer

"Make sure there is something left for your family after you have expired"...

With credchip theft at an all time high, Americard Express with the help of I.E. has developed the CredChip Safety Switch. The switch has two functions:
1) If the credchip becomes seperated from its owner, it fails to operate 
2) If the owner of the credchip dies, all of his accounts are frozen for a period of 48 hours or until an authorized used reopens the account.

A sensor is placed "randomly" into the body (even the recipient doesnt know where it was placed), the sensor will keep track of vital signs, sending the info to the central computer ONLY when the customers vital signs flatline (it can also be set up to send out a signal to trama team for an aditional 25eb a month). in addition if the credchip gets out of the range of the sensor (100m) it will fail to function.

Surgery: min, Cost: 100eb, can be taken out in payments through Americard express.

AutoCook by Martin Schwall

The autocook is a cullinary device which combines a fridge (for storing nutrisoy paste), a press (for squeezing the nutrisoy into a pleasing shape), a flavour & spice dispenser (to add some ... well flavour to the soy paste) , a dispenser for colouring agents (ahh, those lovely whites, reds and blues) and finally a microwave oven to heat the now tasy, coloured and shapely soy.
Very basic models (eg. Universal Products`"General Food Preparation Device") are quite inexpensive (250 Eb., no installation costs) but their OS can provide only very basic meals: the still look and taste
like soy paste. 
More advanced models (IEC "Küchenmeister", 2.500 Eb., plus 200 Eb. for additional software which can handle exotic dishes) provide excellent flavour and the meals look and feel like the real thing.
Of course, the quality of the raw nutrition paste and the flavouring agents will influence the final result.
So, hit the nearest Good-Foods-are-Us chain store and ...Bon Appetit!

Chill Cola by Deric "D" Bernier

In the competetive soft drink market, Chill Cola Company reigns supreme. They owe their success to 1 special, and very secret ingredient, a chemical compound called "Delifreeze 64 "(whose make-up is one of the most closely gaurded secrets in the food industry). Delifreeze 64 is a product which is added to the drink before the container is sealed in a special vacuum sealed room. When the can is opened the Delifreeze 64 mixes with the air, and immediately freezes, creating a "slushy" inside the can, so no matter what the temperature of the can is (in normal situations), you can always enjoy an ice cold Chill. Their is another, even closer guarded secret to the cola's success. Delifreeze 64, while being perfectly safe on its own, becomes a mild physically addictive substance when mixed with the other ingredients that go into Chill Cola. Chill comes in a variety of flavors, including Chill Cola, Cherry Cola Chill, Citrus Chill, Dr. Chill, Mountain Chill, Grape Chill, and Chill Root Beer, and owns several chainsof fast food restaurants. The Cola is the same price as normal soft drinks, and comes in the same size containers.

ChipBooks by Martin Schwall

A Chipbook consists of about 50 - 100 pages of a thin polymere foil which is made up of a vast number of tiny orbs. One hemisphere of these orbs is white the other hemisphere is black. The back of this booklet contains a chipsocket and a socket for a standard powercell. When a datachip with a book on it (the Bible, Websters 6th, the new Bob Violence horror-action-comedy-porn-tragedy-thriller, a scientific report, whatever you care to read) is plugged into the book it emits a faint electric current which causes the miniscule spheres to realign themselves and to display either their black or white sides, forming letters. When the reader arrives on the last page of the booklet, a touch of the "Next"-button displays the next 50 pages of the text.

Recent releases utilize three tapes of orbs with red, green and blue hemispheres which allow for displaying colour graphics.

Chipbooks are widely available in a multitude of formats and styles (paperback to leatherbound hardcovers, pocket size to folio. Some well-known publishers are RandomBertelsmann, TimePenguin. DMS and
HitachiHeyne.

The Chipbook hardware costs between 50 and 500 Eb depending on how
pompous and stylish it shall look. Textchips are usually sold for about 5 to 20 Eb.

Insta-Caf by Ray

Originally Designed for Military MREs, but perfect for the Corp on the go!  Just pour contents of package into a mug (Do NOT eat package!), and add clean water of any temperature! Stir. Chemical Reactions in the contents will heat up the water to a good temperature to drink while running to catch 
that meeting!

Cost: $50 for Box of 20 Packets

LifeGlow by Martin Schwall

"LifeGlow" by BioLux, Ltd. Produced by the Luxembourg-based subsidiary of Biotechnica this inexpensive light fixture utilizes bioengineered luminescent bacteria. A transparent tube contains a nutrient gel which is saturated with lab-grown bacteria which - after adding a trigger substance - emit a faint greenish light. Not very powerful, it is enough to illuminate a range of about 5 metres. The bacteria are good for about 4 months before their luminescence starts to degrade over the course of another 3 months after which period the bacteria die off.

One foot of "LifeGlow" tube costs 10 Eb.

Note: This type of "lamp" is very popular with people who want a cut on their power bill (e.g. miserly landlords - "LifeGlow" tubes can be found glued to the ceilings of the hallways in many a housing project) or who do not have easy access to power lines (e.g. Nomad clans or Viet Cong-style guerillas). Some military units have also taken a likening to it as "LifeGlow" produces no IR signature and is too faint to give a position away.

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