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File:Alfred Hitchcock Resents.jpg|link=Alfred Hitchcock Resents|'''''[[Alfred Hitchcock Resents]]''''' is an American reality television anthology series created, hosted, and starring Alfred Hitchcock.
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.


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== Fiction cross-reference ==
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* ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Resents]]''
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* [[Extract of Radium]]
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Revision as of 04:36, 10 August 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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