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File:Exploded electrolytic capacitor.jpg|link=Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|[[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|Capacitor plague]] affects several brands of portable envy devices.
File:Exploded electrolytic capacitor.jpg|link=Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|[[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|Capacitor plague]] affects several brands of portable envy devices.


File:Septins_in Saccharomyces_cerevisiae.jpg|''Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Prison'', converted from yeast cells to a high-security prison for [[Supervillain (nonfiction)|supervillains]]. Note the fluorescent green security doors, where prisoners are inspected for portable envy devices.
File:Verdigris.jpg|link=Verdigris|"'''[[Verdigris]]'''" (better known as "''"Verdigris Before You Go-Go'''") is a song by the [REDACTED] duo Whom?, first released as a single in the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere on 14 [REDACTED] 1984.


File:Bartolomeo Manfredi - Cain Kills Abel, c. 1600, Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna).jpg|link=Envy (nonfiction)|Theologians announce that [[Envy (nonfiction)|Envy]] drove Cain to slay Abel.
File:Bartolomeo Manfredi - Cain Kills Abel, c. 1600, Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna).jpg|link=Envy (nonfiction)|Theologians announce that [[Envy (nonfiction)|Envy]] drove Cain to slay Abel.
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* [[How Green Was My Envy]]
* [[How Green Was My Envy]]
* ''[[Transdimensional corporation]]''
* ''[[Transdimensional corporation]]''
* [[Verdigris]]


== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==

Revision as of 08:07, 31 July 2021

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

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