Cyberware

Cyberware is everywhere. For the rich, the poor, and everyone in between, bodyshops on every street corner offer minor modifications at your convenience, legally or otherwise. Even the gang-bangers on those street corners might be equipped with cybernetic vision enhancements or datajacks.

CyberInk
This is a programmable, light-emitting mesh inserted beneath the first couple layers of skin that functions as a cybernetic tattoo. CyberInk can be programmed to display a static image, a short animation, or a repeating pattern. The tattoo is altered through the recipient's DNI, if they have one, or by wireless connection.

Skinwatch
This digital timepiece, implanted just below the epidermis, uses technology similar to cyberink to project a readout of the time onto the skin. Skinwatches can be implanted anywhere, although the hand, wrist, and fingers are the most common.

Synthskin
A much more sophisticated version of cyberink, synthskin is a layer of color-shifting plastic bonded to the character's skin. It can be adjusted to display colors, patterns, light flares, or other special effects. Like with cyberink, synthskin is altered either through the recipient's DNI or via wireless connection. Tuning chips, pre-programmed with particular settings, can be purchased for around 100 credits.

TechHair
These shafts of artificial hair can be programmed to shift color, stand on end, or emitting colored light, either static or in moving patterns. Techhair can be programmed to respond to changes in temperature, ambient conditions, or, if the recipient has a DNI and biomonitor, changes in the recipient's emotional state, heart rate, blood pressure, or other variables.

Techhair can be implanted in mohawks, hair weaves, full hairpieces, manes, ruffs, whiskers, bears, and other, less-obvious (but interesting) places.