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A small machine that, when swallowed, causes a person't brain to operate 12 times faster. Used in [[Layer 02]] by a boy in [[Cyberia]]. Not considered a drug, but traded like one and priced rather exorbitantly; up to ten thousand yen, with the usual price around four thousand.

[[File:A photo of Accela from Layer 02.png|thumb|A graphic displayed during the first introduction of Accela, pointing out the device's Nano Mechanism A-12]]

A small machine that, when swallowed, causes a person's brain to operate 12 times faster. Used in [[Layer 02]] by a boy in [[Cyberia]]. Not considered a drug, but traded like one and priced rather exorbitantly; up to ten thousand yen, with the usual price around four thousand.

It is delivered in a paper parcel and held in an organic-looking capsule filled with fluid -- the boy splits the capsule open using a box-cutter and ingests the machine with a swig of beer.

It becomes much more difficult to obtain after the shooting in Layer 02.

== Official Description ==

[[File:Accela Description.jpg|thumb|Accela descrption typographics]]

In Layer 02, a description of Accela is spoken aloud and displayed in a documentary-like [[Typographics|typographic]] style. This appears at approximately 10 minutes and 1 second into the episode.

Displayed Description:

Accela

Anti-VEGF

Humanized Monoclonal Antibody

The anti-VEGF antibody is an inhibitor

of angiogenesis (blood-vessel growth)

that many hinder the growth of cancer tumors

by starving their blood supply. Genentech is

investigating this antibody in Phase II

Vascular endothelial growth factor

(VEGF) is a natural protein that promotes angiogenesis

(blood vessel growth).

VEGF couldpotentially benefit patients who have a

heart that is functioning but has a blocked blood

supply due to artherioscleroticcoronar

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This text was taken from a 1999 version of the Genentech website.<ref>Genentech, 1999 - https://web.archive.org/web/19990222022456/http://www.gene.com/Pipeline/pipeline.html</ref>

In the English Dub, the spoken description of Accela is as follows:

A new type of smart drug on the street called ACcela uses nanomechanisms that oscillate at a specific frequency within the body.

This triggers the secretion of a synthetic hormone.

It is said that when secreted, this hormone completely alters the response time of the human brain, making it seem as if one's awareness is accelerated.

Not only its awareness, but the workings of the brain itself are altered, multiplying the speed at which the brain calculates by a factor of 12.

This nanomechansim itself is destroyed by digestive juices within twenty four hours.

(*Fading out, becoming inaudible*) But it is unknown how long its effectiveness lives on in the brain

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== Additional Accela-related Text ==

[[File:Accela Text Chunk.jpg|thumb|A large chunk of text discussing nanomachines that is shown during Accela's introduction in Layer 02.]]

In addition to the description of Accela, a second large chunk of english text is shown on screen during the typographic insert in Layer 02. The content is as follows:

Smart materials would be made of nanomachines,

typically microscopic—with features any size,

down to atomic dimensions. Such machines would

have more or less, the same components as macro,

or familiar "normal" sized machines with

recognizable gears,

bearings, motors, levers and belts... (except for all the nanocomputers).

This is somewhat helpful to the engineer

designing smart materials with a myriad of

functions like shape changing and distributing

fluids and gas—say for environmental control in

a paper thin space suit that

actively moves with the body or Drexler's smart paint.

Open a can and splat some on a wall. The paint

spreads itself across the surface using microscopic

machines and changes color on command or

becomes a wall sized 3-D television... Then again,

the whole wall may as well be smart material changing

texture or windows on command.

The point here... one can visualize the machines

needed to do such a job: little tractors with sticky

wheels, connection struts and cables to other

machines. Actually, most of this can be done today, only

on a much larger scale and at great expense

(this is where the novel economics of self replicating

machines plugs in). The transition for an engineer,

is using more machines with much smaller parts and

the luxury of vast computing power.

These differences yield more great utility.

Gears made of Buckytubes are great

nanomachine components... Buckytubes are carbon graphite

sheets rolled into a tube (looks like tubes of chicken wire),

and are "like" carbon in its diamond form,

but with ALL available bonding strength aligned on one axis.

These tubes are stronger than diamond

fiber, and the strongest fiber possible with matter,

so we're starting out with real racehorse material.

Globus and Team designs are chemically stable,

very tough and varied in geometry, including gears mad

from "nested" Buckytubes or tubs inside of

tubes. Such a gear would be stiffer and suited for a "long"

drive shaft. And talk about performance...

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Currently, it is believed that this text came from an article titled "Nanotechnology: Magic of Century 21st", published by Chau-Jeng (Jeremy) Chen.<ref>Chau-Jeng (Jeremy) Chen, Nanotechnology: Magic of Century 21st. https://web.archive.org/web/20010612210105/http://www.gwforecast.gwu.edu/documents/nanotech.doc</ref>

== References ==

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