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[Feinan]

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To amplify: If it's primarily hardtech and the power source is sunlight, no big deal. If it's mainly wavetech, file the serial numbers off the jokes that were floating around before somebody actually built a solar-powered flashlight.

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*chuckles* Which jokes are these? And it's primarily wavetech...since I should've been more clear. It doesn't use stored sunlight to power it indirectly....it uses stored sunlight DIRECTLY.
*grin* Small amber sphere, marble sized. Tiny solar cell inside it, then sealed back up. Quartz crystal shell around that. Then....have to see if I can find a variable polarization paint/tinting to put on the crystal. Open windows/lenses in 'power-up' mode to focus sunlight on the sphere in the tool. Handwave it, take it to inside the orbit of Mercury, and let it soak up some intense sunlight for a week or two. If it WORKS, after it's full, the marble should look like a tiny little sun inside dark glass.
For use - the tinting can be lowered to let varying amounts of sunlight out. Goes through a series of lenses/Fresnell lenses to focus it. Can get a wide beam at a low intensity for a flashlight. Pinpoint beam at a higher intensity for a soldering iron (ever melt crayons with a magnifying glass as a kid?). And so on. This is why it could also create a sunburn effect if the Slapstick went that way. Works a treat against vampires, too.