The Koreans have skinlinked iPods?

Hence the specific desire for a skinlinked video iPod since I'd already be touching it anyway.

In other news, MS holds one of the patents on the tech.

In my pants?

Well, shortly, anything that needs to be triggered. A Flash-Pak needs external control to operate; so does a firearm (pulling the trigger is external), a grapple gun, shock gloves (activate), explosives (setting fuse methods like contact/airburst/timed for grenades), jammers/white noise generators (on/off)...

A lot of stuff.

Well I would guess that the skinlink mod for a comlink includes either a small induction pad (like a heart rate monitor that you stick to your lower back (or somewhere equally as unobtrusive and comfortable eg a modified/custom shoulder holster and a pad conected in your armpit) or your clothes could have small patches of electro-conductive material in common locations (crotch, waistband, neckline or points of your shoulders) plus interconnected wiring between these points such that if one disconnects from your body others are still connected. There are already Jackets and pants that are able to have iPods, PDAs or other commercial electronics connected in and have the controls run from a pad on the sleeve and speakers attached near the collar. Of course being a consumer world all the manufacturers would have different configurations of pad layouts so your Nike shoes probably don't talk well to your puma socks and your expensive designer jeans by Calvin Kline don't communicate with your budget K-Mart brand budgie smugglers. so you have to buy all one brand (or family of brands - so maybe you buy the Calvin Kline jeans with iNtel iNside :classic: )

Also if you have your clothes Electricallly grounded to protect against lightning or taser or stick-n-shocks then you will be wanting to get any rfid tags in it wiped so that your opponents can't identify the clothes from them and aim for the connection points to bypass your electrical protection (even if they just short out the clothes rather than you your PAN should go down folled closely by you as you get outclassed.

Blam!

<red sam 1> Um sir I believe we have been ambushed by the worlds most incompetent ambusher!

<red sam officer> Any identification of assailant?

<red sam 1> Well I believe I can scrape some of him off the wall for identification back in the lab sir!

<red sam officer> well scan for the assailants accomplices - they should be easy to find they will be standing around with stupefied looks on their faces and possible also covered with more identification material - then continue with your patrol.

<red sam 1> copy that sir!

Thanks - glad you appreciated it



Can I add yours to the top ten of most idiotic misworded comments?



By that I mean when you say:

I'm hoping you meant boobytrap rather than ambush.

While yes an ambush can be termed "A hidden peril or trap." as indicated, but that is a rare example of the usage of the word and a more common word for this usage is a boobytrap. I was simply illustrating a more common interpretation of your response based on the language you have used.

I really can believe I just wasted so much time on the reply to this? Must be because it is frikin hot here and I'm at work so hot+working=short fuse and retort just had to flow (cathartic I'd say)

p210 "Commlinks come in a dizzying array of shapes...from stylized head sets to faux jewelry...." yes ladies and gents, this ridiculous apparatus can now be part of your bling.

It's funnier with ambush.

I can just see a guy jumping out from behind a bush with a handful of explosive then spontaneously exploding. As a matter of fact, there's not really any guarantee I won't see a group member do that within the next few sessions.

I see no reason you couldn't modify any/all of those for DNI controlled activation. Transmit commands by skinlink from DNI'd commlink, installed servomotors handle mechanical activation of triggers, etc. I'd imagine the very sharpest bleeding edge rifles used in assassinations wouldn't be intended for shoulder firing at all. Mount the weapon on a mechanical tripod, plug in for direct control, aim as easily as you point/click, and fire with a thought. No body movement/trigger pull to disrupt your aim. Electrical ignition keeps moving parts to a minimum.

A flashpack is not a grenade that you throw (even though it is in the grenade section), it’s more like a very powerful camera flash that you point in a chosen direction. Having it placed on your chest, pointing towards the enemy and activating it when you are turned towards them is quite useful – a wireless connection to it when you have your arms full with loot/weapons/corpses helps a lot.

And this gets back to my original question (on skinlink), it is under accessories, with ELECTRONICS. I dont feel that the writers intended EVERYTHING that's wireless (which is well, pretty much everything) to also be skinlink-able.

Cyberware doesnt need skinlinks, because it's already got DNI, the smartgun system, i'm not so sure of, still, but i'll slide on it, but flahpaks? i just don't think thats in th spirit of the rules.

So again, it is under a specific section of the book (electronics), under a specific subsection (accessories) Can you put chemical protection on your commlink? No, because it's an ARMOR mod/accessory.

No where in either of those blocks does it say that anything wireless enabled can be skinlinked. Why you would want to have your skinlink wireless enabled is beyond me, as it's defeating the purpose, but to each his own.

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and i'm saying, that "electronic device" are those things IN that section. Just because PDA's can do all of the same things as a computer, doesnt mean we "call" them a computer, they're a PDA. Just because you can get video on cellphones, doesnt mean we call them a television.

And just because something is electrical, doesnt mean it counts as an electronic device.

and what have given you this idea? something in the description that i have missed or something else? i would expect its use to be something similar to a flashbang. throw it into a room disorientate whoever is in there or in other ways create a diversion...

If I recall correctly, the original Street Sam Catalog clearly described and illustrated the Flash Pak as a handheld device.

That's the way I've played it since 1st Edition but looking through my 4th edition book, I can't find anything that confirms that it's hand held, so it's possible that this has changed.

It doesn't say either way, really.