Accela

Accela.

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

Accela descrption typographics

In Layer 02, a description of Accela is spoken aloud and displayed in a documentary-like 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

This text was taken from a 1999 version of the Genentech website.

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

Additional Accela-related Text

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...

Currently, it is believed that this text came from an article titled "Nanotechnology: Magic of Century 21st", published by Chau-Jeng (Jeremy) Chen.