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[[File:Accela.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Accela.]]
[[File:Accela.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Accela.]]
+[[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.
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.
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It becomes much more difficult to obtain after the shooting in Layer 02.
It becomes much more difficult to obtain after the shooting in Layer 02.
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+== 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:
+<blockquote><poem>
+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
+</poem></blockquote>
+
+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:
+<blockquote><poem>
+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
+</poem></blockquote>
+
+== 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:
+
+<blockquote><poem>
+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...
+</poem></blockquote>
+
+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 ==
+<references>
+</references>
[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:Technology]]
