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* Cogs in ''[[The Grimnoir Chronicles]]'' books are exactly this. Unlike most other examples though, Cogs tend to be specialized.
* The main character of [[The Chronicles of Professor Jack Baling]] is able to build a disintegrator gun out of parts from his microwave, flatscreen TV, laser pointer, refrigerator, and his wife’s hair dryer that plugs into any standard wall socket.
* [[Isaac Asimov]]'s short story "Homo Sol" portrays Earthpeople as, by comparison with the Galaxy's other intelligent peoples, an entire species of these — specializing in weapons. One extraterrestrial describes how Earth's researchers rebuilt an alien geological sensor, used to detect ore deposits and '''not very effective''', as an absolutely deadly targeting sensor: "It will automatically lay a gun or projector on a completely invisible target in space, air, water — or rock, for that matter."
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