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Player > Items > Technological > Datapad
Level: 2
Price: 55
Hands: 1
Bulk: L
Capacity: 20; Usage: 1/hour
Datapads are among the most common handheld computers
(Core Rulebook 213) and are ubiquitous in homes, manufacturing
settings, and offices. Datapads require at least one hand to
use. Nearly all datapads also incorporate a comm unit (which
includes a microphone and speaker) along with several other
functions, such as infosphere connectivity and data storage.
Datapads can record simple audio and video (though not in
high enough resolution to serve as proof of recorded events
in most courts of law), store thousands of hours of recordings,
play games, track time and set time-based alarms, act as word
processors, and perform numerous other minor data processing
and entertainment functions.
All datapads have light bulk, and most are tier 1 computers
with the miniaturization upgrade. Tier 2 and higher datapads
are generally used only by the wealthy elites or technological
sophisticates due to the additional miniaturization technology
involved, but they are more powerful than many stationary
computers while still fitting comfortably in one hand. Datapads
can have computer modules and countermeasures installed at
the usual additional costs (Core Rulebook 216). For example, most
datapads in military or industrial use have the hardened upgrade.
Saboteurs and spies frequently disguise eavesdropping
devices or explosives as ordinary datapads, knowing that the
datapads' universal use means they won't raise suspicion.
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