•Energy•
•Solar: Solar energy collecting panels that became widespread by the end of the twenty-first century. Solar panels have become integrated into many homes and businesses, and have achieved a modern, compact design. Rather than an entire roof littered with them, smaller panels can be found strategically positioned to keep from being unsightly. Two or Three of these panels can easily power a home.
•Hydro-Electric: Turbines spun by underwater currents of the ocean produce large quantities of power, which paved the way for making fossil fuels obsolete. Large underwater plants are scattered along the coastlines, housing hundreds of these turbines.
•Power Plants: Electricity created through nuclear energy, methane, natural gas, coal, oil, etc, that turns water into steam to turn the turbines. Many of these methods were done away with in favor of hydro-electric power, more specifically the non-renewable sources.
•Wind Turbines: Another method of power collection that saw a popular rise in the earlier years of the twenty-first century. However, before they could really catch on and become produced en masse, hydro-electric power began trending and overtook the green energy movements. In reality, only a handful of "Wind Farms" exist across the U.S.
•Robotics and Cybernetics•
•Home A.I: An expensive and uncommon feature, the Home A.I can do just about anything when integrated into a home or business: From turning on the lights, to turning off the stove, it can lock your doors, open windows, regulate tempurate, keep an eye on your children, set calendar dates, take notes, give you reminders monitor vitals, and much more. The Home A.I is basically "Siri" for your house—But smarter and less sassy.
•Security: Unfortunately, there are no laser defense grids for your lawn, but most locks have been converted to ancient tumbler locks, to electronic locks that use key pins, laser eye recognition, fingerprint scanners, or even full body scans. Some security systems use a combination of these things. Fingerprint scanners were especially popular for personal storage, such as locked drawers, or briefcases. Tumbler locks are considered ancient, and are rarely found anywhere.
•Robots: Very rare, and even then they are generally not used by the public—Not since the "Personal Butler Uprising". However, automated robotics are widespread, such as assembling machines for manufacturing plants, and primarily only exist for industrial use. A person who owns an actual automaton with a functioning A.I is about the same as a pre-era rich guy buying endangered animals.
•Cybernetics: Advancements here have led to fully functional robotic limb and organs, for those who have lost their biological ones or simply desire an upgrade. The functionality ranges, and maintenance depends on the quality of the mechanical limb. Because of the complexity of these limbs, it's difficult to achieve things like inhuman strength, despite some higher quality models of limbs being quite strong. However, typically in higher end cybernetics there is some small amount of free space, so small tools and devices could be incorporated.
•Genomics and Medicine•
•Compound Pills: A compound is a pill designed to treat a wide range of problems at the same time, but contained in a single capsule. TYpically, these pills are geared towards their respective end of the medicinal spectrum. Vitapills pretty much cover your essential daily intake of vitamins and minerals, and those other oddball extracts and supplements that people were into. Immunizers updated your vaccines and helped prevent illness and disease. The crisis pill, used by emergency responders, included a combination of pain killers, antibiotics, coagulants, and etc to help stabilize patient en route to the hospital. A wide range of compound pills exist.
•Imagery: The enormous and bulky imaging devices for cat-scans and x-rays are a thing of the distant past. Now internal imaging devices, resembling slightly larger laptops, can be used on the fly and require no additional equipment. These "Scanners" come equipped with an extending pen sized wand which emits a laser curtain equal to the size of the wands length. The laser curtain is intended to be scanned over the body slowly, and depending on the selected mode, will produce the desired visuals on the scanner. The wand is also wireless, but has a short range, and requires only a few micro-cells.
