Mobworld Extra-SOmatic Units

Extra-Somatic Units (ESUs) replace the now defunct cybertechnology with machines that work completely outside of the human body. Most ESUs are strapped on the body parts they shall enhance, or come in the form of coveralls. Due to their experience with advanced technologies, ESU producers have been able to come very close to cybernetic technology standards. ESUs may sometimes look clumsy or weird, but they're highly complex technology.
This page gives you information on some of the most common ESUs that can be found on Mobworld's streets.

Cartwick's Fine Infernal Devices, Inc. is one of the most renowned manufaturers of ESUs. Cartwick was heavily into cybertechnology before the world was struck by the Mortal's War. Suddenly, all cybertechnology malfunctioned and finally ceased to work. Cartwick was lucky, because they managed to switch relatively quickly from cybertechnology to extra-somatic tech. Many cyber corps pulled this stunt, but only a few have survived it.
Cartwick is a Northern Territories and Japanese joint-venture.

Head Bloks
Head Bloks are helmet-like ESUs that serve mind-enhancing purposes. They are equipped with specialized high-performance computers. The bloks monitor the electrical impulses of the brain. Whenever a certain task is required, the blok's software sends a very small electrical impulse to the area of the brain that is responsible for this kind of task. Most head bloks are made of nylon or PVC. Extra-light head bloks exist, but they're about three to four times more expensive than average bloks. Average head bloks ("helmets") weigh about one kilogram and offer some protection against head injuries (albeit minimal). Extra-light head bloks ("caps") weigh only a few grams.
Helmets work with fiberglass needles that are only few nanometers thin - the user doesn't notice them. Due to this direct connection between helmet head blok and head, helmets work faster and more reliable than caps.
Caps have dermatrodes that are attached to the user's temples. Their connection is slower and more prone to processing errors.

Sense Enhancer/Decreaser Head Bloks
These bloks enhance or decrease a sense. There are many different versions available on the open market. Most common are visual enhancer head bloks (see in the dark, magnify vision, etc.). There are sense enhancer head bloks that combine two or more sense stimulations, but these ESUs are really expensive.

Mental Performance Enhancer Head Bloks
Not available to the public (except you have a permission to wear one), mental enhancer head bloks are high-performance items that actually increase the user's capability to think. Increases in intelligence can reach very high levels (tests have shown that average human beings could reach IQs up to 140). Being so powerful ESUs, it's understandable that military and governmental forces are heavy mental enhancer users.

Bod Suits
Bod Suits are ESUs that improve or enhance torso capabilities. Bod Suits look like rugged jackets. Like Head Bloks, they work with fiberglass needles and/or dermatrodes. The human torso contains the most important parts of the body: the internal organs. Organs don't improve much when they're electrified, so all bod suits use infusions to force them to do more or better work.
Therefor, bod suits are the only kind of ESU that come with an infusion tank to be carried on the back or, if smaller, somewhere inside the suit.
Again, there are dozens of corporations that offer dozens of different bod suits.

Common are Heart Performance Bod Suits that enhance the heart's performance, enabling the users to endure strenuous work for a longer time.

Liver Filter Bod Suits, for instance, make the user almost immune to the effects of alcohol, because they filter it out.

We strongly recommand that you come up with your own ideas here; bod suits are a vast playground for imagination. You may have notice that extra-somatic units have fancy (pseudo) scientific names. This is part and parcel of a billion-dollar industry that wants its customers to believe they're buying the best of the best.

How about a Breather bod suit that pumps oxygen into your blood and enables you to run for miles and miles without getting exhausted?
Or an Ultimate Workout bod suit that stimulates your pectorals and abdominals, making you look like a pro gymnast? Let your creativity run wild.

Limb Gadgets
Limb Gadgets improve or enhance arm, hand, leg, or foot capabilities. Limb Gadgets either come as jackets (like Bod Suits), or as devices strapped to the limb that is to be enhanced. They work with fiberglass needles (the faster and more reliable option) or dermatrodes (less desirable because of malfunctions).
Limbs are the body's tools, thus limb gadgets serve hundreds of different purposes.

Want to type faster? Use a Multifinger Limb Gadget (strapped onto each hand, each Multifinger limb gadget has ten metallic "fingers" that can hack so fast that a one-page letter is finished within five seconds).

Want to be stronger? Use an Arm Receptor Stimulation Limb Gadget (this ESU looks like an undersleeve. On the inside, hundreds of fiberglass needles connect to the arm. The needles send electrical impulses to the arm muscles).