Generic quirk for a device: projects a low-level electrical field at all times. Aside from the occasional minor static shocks and the potential (quite controllable) problems with frying delicate equipment, anyone who's in the area slowly acumulates charge - leading, over time, to full-blown mad scientist/Einstein hair to the extent that their existing hair will allow.
might also work well as the quirk for hangover-free alcohol
another generic quirk. The variations on "must have music/sound type X playing" are pretty common, what with one thing or another, but here's one with a twist. It's a paired system of some sort - two functions built nto the same chassis that are designed to work together. Unfortunately, they've developed AI - or, specifically, two *different* AIs. The tow AIs really don't like each other much, and have violent disagreements about music preference. Of course, neither AI is willing to function without its *own* music playing - and putting said music on invariably offends the other. Getting them to work together is essentially impossible without something that's a threat to their combined existence, and even getting them to work in series requires some *serious* diplomacy skills, as each will take offense at any attempts to make friends with the other. The professor has an easier time of it, as they're absolutely terrified of him, but the device is such (a washer-dryer, or something similar) that he is loathe to spend his precious time dealing with it. He also doesn't *really* believe that it's all that much trouble. *He* never has any problems with it.
Right along with on the theme of "well, *I* never had a problem with it." - a consumable with some significant side effect that wears off slowly with time. The only way to make it stop *other* than time is drinking massive quantities of caffeine. (Not professor levels. Just Heavy coffee drinker levels.) "Doesn't seem to have any quirks at all."
might also work well as the quirk for hangover-free alcohol
another generic quirk. The variations on "must have music/sound type X playing" are pretty common, what with one thing or another, but here's one with a twist. It's a paired system of some sort - two functions built nto the same chassis that are designed to work together. Unfortunately, they've developed AI - or, specifically, two *different* AIs. The tow AIs really don't like each other much, and have violent disagreements about music preference. Of course, neither AI is willing to function without its *own* music playing - and putting said music on invariably offends the other. Getting them to work together is essentially impossible without something that's a threat to their combined existence, and even getting them to work in series requires some *serious* diplomacy skills, as each will take offense at any attempts to make friends with the other. The professor has an easier time of it, as they're absolutely terrified of him, but the device is such (a washer-dryer, or something similar) that he is loathe to spend his precious time dealing with it. He also doesn't *really* believe that it's all that much trouble. *He* never has any problems with it.
Right along with on the theme of "well, *I* never had a problem with it." - a consumable with some significant side effect that wears off slowly with time. The only way to make it stop *other* than time is drinking massive quantities of caffeine. (Not professor levels. Just Heavy coffee drinker levels.) "Doesn't seem to have any quirks at all."