Genies

Instantiates objects (often food) from energy. Expensive, energy-wise.

Common objects may be represented by very, very large numbers of possible examples in the genie. For example, Alysha Forrest's search for chocolate chip cookies turned up 3,429 "basic" recipes.

Objects can be scanned to create a genie pattern. Scanning different examples of them multiple times can be used to create some variation in the result. Patterns that a person has created can be mailed to others.

(Pray you don't get an Intermittently Malfunctioning Genie.)

See also: Food and Genies

References

Also just about every story, any story long enough and/or Starbase or spaceship oriented. Jahir finds these on campus too. .