So I was thinking what absurd tech would I want, if I could have it? I tried to impost a few limits on my list. Here are the limits, totally self-imposed:

* Nothing bigger or more complex than I could use myself and no vehicles. No Death Star, for example, or gun that took two men to fire. No vehicles because then I end up with a TARDIS / Batmobile type list and I bore myself.

* I can only list 5.

* I can only list items I can find pictures of. Why? Because I felt like making this a rule.

And then I came up with a list! So here it is in no particular order.

Sonic Screwdriver
It can do almost anything! It has been used for opening doors, interrupting teleportation, fixing barbed wire, burning things, cutting things, augmenting sound, intercepting signals, and well – turning screws. I mean, really, it may be used as a Gailfray ex Machina on occasion, but the sonic screwdriver is still just all sorts of fancy. Invented by the Doctor to be a multi-use tool that couldn’t be a weapon, the sonic screwdriver is presented as the ultimate device for adventurers. Jack Harkness may have asked “Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, ‘Ooh, this could be a little more sonic’?” but the answer is obvious – all of us. It is the ultimate widget device and I need me one.

Doctor Doom’s Time Platform
Most times I come across time machines they are built into boxes, Police or otherwise, and seem to have a stodgy air to them. Maybe it’s me. But Doctor Doom found a way around that problem. He built a time machine that was a big yellow square. you stood on it and it moved you through time. That was it. A glowing bit of floor. So he called it a time platform and used it to banish the Fantastic Four to the past. Like that stuck. Still, the time platform comes back again and again, as you would expect a time travel device to do. It isn’t my favorite time travel device (that’s be a time bubble, ‘natch) but I did say no ships.

Iron Man’s Extremis armor
By now most of you are familiar with Iron Man and his many, many suits of armor. Well, for a while he had one which was known as the Extremis suit. So-called because to operate it, Stark infected himself with a nanotech virus called Extermis. The suit is controlled directly by his brain and functions as an extension of Stark, instead of as a thing he wears. There were other benefits as well, generally surrounding control of other machines and satellite feeds and so on. Extremis made the other Iron Man suits look like they were made by Tonka, really.

Zorg ZF-1
An adjustable handle for easy carry and a simple four part breakdown that also renders it uncatchable by x-ray would both make this a good contender for great weaponry. But then you look at what it can do: it has a titanium recharger, a 3000 round clip with bursts of three to 300 (with a Replay Button so the operator can fire one shot and, by pushing a simple button, send every following shot to the same location, regardless of where the gun points), rocket launcher, arrow launcher with exploding or poisonous gas heads, a net launcher, a flamethrower, and a freeze gun. Just don’t push the glowing red button on the side. That makes it blow up and take you with it.

Miracle Machine
This one, I admit, feels like a cheat. Back in the late 60’s, in the Legion of Super-Heroes, they introduced the Miracle Machine. It has the power to convert thought to reality. Seriously. It is a reality altering wish machine. So dangerous it has been destroyed more than once (eaten the first time, no lie!) but somehow seems to pop back up. Once you have a Miracle Machine what else do you need, really?