Personal Electronics

Holo Generator: small box (approx. 4"x2'x6" inches) projects a holographic picture from a replaceable chip. Generator is compatible with chips from most digital cameras. Can be linked with a digital Recorder/Player.

Video Board: monitor using flat-LCD technology. No thicker than an inch, most video boards are built into TVs, but all types have input plugs for use as a readout monitor for other electronic products. Large ones (20"x100") are used as advertising signs. Videoboards are bought by the square foot.

Datachip: the storage medium of the future for holding digital information. Usually plastic-cased, chips come in the shape of buttons, flat squares and triangular slivers. AH shapes can be read by all types of recording media by use of adapter plugs.

Logcompass: a form of programmable inertial compass that keeps track of your changes in direction from a fixed bearing or point.

Digital Recorder: audio recording device using datachip technology, most are the size of two paperback books stacked flat. Some are smaller that a pack of cards.

Digital Camera: still images are "digitized" onto a chip cartridge. About the size of a pack of cigarettes.

VideoCam: can be mounted on a headset, a shoulder clamp, or hand held depending on size (This affects price, size of recorded image, duration of recording time, etc. The once given is for the most inexpensive shoulder-carried model.) Sound and image are usually recorded on a tape-pak that is the size of a card deck or smaller, but you can direct feed to a transmission device with a set of cables.

Video/audio Tape Player: this device plays the videocam tape-paks, along with many older-style audio tapes.

Video Tape: see VideoCam. Note: the video tape of 2020 is a high density digital media capable of handling both audio and visual images.

Pocket TV: uses a flat-scan screen in a package 5"x5"x3/4" or smaller. Picks up the majority of VHF, UHF stations.

Digital Chip Player: this plays audio- and video-recorded chips. You must plug into a video board to play the video Crack of a digital chip.

Digital Music Chip: 1 to 6 pop album favorites (or any other music) slapped into semiconductors and plastic. These chip are also available in a read-write format as well.

Electric Guitar: no longer the classic "axe", it's now lighter, more flexible in its applications, and sometimes not even in a recognizable shape. It may have even replaced the strings and frets with a series of key banks!

Electronic Keyboard: little changed from (he present except in size and power.

Drum Synthesizers: common "new-wave" music equipment; a series of percussion pads and a sound box. It will (it in a couple of suitcases and can be arranged anyway the drummer pleases.

Amplifier: see electronic keyboard. (For more on the instruments of the 2010s-20s, check out the supplement Rockerboy).