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* [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)]]
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== External links ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envy Envy] @ Wikipedia
=== Social media ===


* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1507531268132683783 Post] @ Twitter (25 March 2022)
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1507531268132683783 Post] @ Twitter (25 March 2022)

Revision as of 08:00, 19 July 2023

Advertisement for Portable Envy.
Portable envy component (lower left) on a clock generator circuit board. Note the classic "green with envy" glow.

Portable Envy is a provisionally licensed transdimensional corporation which manufactures and distributes envy (nonfiction) offloading and restoration devices.

History

Early versions of portable envy exploited vulnerable components on substandard circuit board components, for example by exploiting components designed from faulty industrial espionage (see Capacitor plague (nonfiction)).

Subsequently, pirate manufacturers have released knock-off circuit boards with built-in portable envy features.

Portable envy devices are popular black-market items in many prisons, despite efforts by get-tough wardens (and, in some prisons, self-regulating prisoners) to forbid ownership or use of portable envy.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links

Social media

  • Post @ Twitter (25 March 2022)