A swarm of nanobots ("Foglets") that can take the shape of virtually anything, and change shape on the fly.
Nanotechnology is based on the concept of tiny, self-replicating robots. The Utility Fog is a very simple extension of the idea: Suppose, instead of building the object you want atom by atom, the tiny robots linked their arms together to form a solid mass in the shape of the object you wanted? Then, when you got tired of that avant-garde coffeetable, the robots could simply shift around a little and you'd have an elegant Queen Anne piece instead.
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Utility Fog
Utility Fog: (AKA: Polymorphic Smart Materials) Objects formed of "intelligent" polymorphic (able to change shape) substances, typically having an octet truss structure. Concept concieved and Graphics Copyright Dr. J. Storrs Hall
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Single Foglet
Foglets Holding Hands
Here's a short list of the powers you'd have or appear to have if embedded in fog:
- Creation--causing objects to appear and disappear on command.
- Levitation--causing objects to hover and fly around.
- Manipulation--causing forces (squeezing, hitting, pulling) on objects (real ones) at a distance.
- Teleportation--nearly any combination of telepresence and virtual reality between fog-filled locations
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