Cluetabs, Cluedrivers
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Cluetabs, Cluedrivers |
For ease in handling, the cluetab bonds lightly to the skin or other
surface of a user or the user's tools if light pressure is applied to
either side, enabling it to be picked up merely by pressing on it with
a finger (or equivalent). If the other side of the cluetab is pressed
against something, it will release its grip on one side and grip with
the other, moving it from the manipulatory appendage to, say, a wall.
Finally the back is touched with a cluedriver. In its basic form a
cluedriver is a small hand tool approximately the size of a matchstick.
Many cyborgs or vecs who use cluetabs
on a regular basis have a
cluedriver built into the end of a digit. When activated by the
cluedriver the tab expends its energy into the nanobots, which quickly
burrow into the object on which the cluetab was applied. The nanobots
dig, carefully rebuilding the material behind them as they go, until
they meet the surface between the two objects (often recognized by the
thin layer of air between the two objects, but any other definition may
be programmed into the tabs). There they quickly bond the two objects
together. The process usually takes less than a second.
With standard cluetabs the bonding is permanent, but some cluetabs can
be commanded detach, and may even be reusable.
