History Main / OrganicTechnology

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' seems to mix this in from normal advance tech to living tech.

** Over the editions the Orks ''themselves'' have evolved into being organic technology. Essentially, orks are what you get when a desperate race of {{precursors}} attempts to engineer a [[GreyGoo self-perpetuating]] RobotSoldier race out of biological material. Orks are actually a kind of hyper-developed ''fungus'', biologically programmed with knowledge they need on an instinctual level; specialist castes, or "Oddboys" are literally born knowing how to do their job, and only grow better at it as they live longer and practice. Every indivdual ork constant sheds fungal spores which form a kind of fungal bio-factory wherever they take root; these "shroom-wombs" first provide basic ecosystem requirements such as oxygen generation. Then they start to produce complex organisms; first squigs, to provide the most basic biological needs (food, leather, bone, etc); then gretchin to serve as labor units, and finally fully developed orks. With time these fungi will [[HostileTerraforming literally take over and "orkiform" a planet]].

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' has the Den-Den Mushi (official English translation: "Transponder Snail"), a ridiculous example of this trope : all means of long-distance communication in the series are ''snails''. If that's not ridiculous enough for you, try the snails that can project images from their eyes and onto walls. Or the white one that emits psychic waves to act as a jamming device so the speaker has a secure channel.
** This is likely based on a real life attempt at this trope, Jacques Toussaint Benoit's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasilalinic-sympathetic_compass Pasilalinic-Sympathetic Compass]] aka the "Snail Telegraph". He believed that snails that have mated form a permanent telepathic link and can be used to send and receive long distance telegrams by manipulating their bodies. [[CreatorKiller It didn't work.]][[note]]It was possibly a scam all along. He had managed to convince one person he demonstrated it to but not the other. The other called him out and demanded a stricter test to be performed. Benoit failed to arrive to the second test and was never taken seriously again, dying as a penniless drunk on the streets of Paris less than two years later.[[/note]]

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In the episode "Quarantine", a future society uses genetically modified primates as telepathic [=CPUs=]. Members of this society call their organic technology a "biological gestalt".

** [[ActionGirl Samus Aran]]'s Power Suit, since the X Parasites were able to infect and then replicate it in ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion''. Its appearance goes through a very radical change as seen during the beginning of ''Fusion''. This is the result of the Galactic Federation surgically removing its mechanical armor plating in an attempt to remove the X Parasite from Samus' body, along with her receiving the Metroid vaccine to save her life. Now referred to as the Fusion Suit, the two aforementioned procedures caused it to be scaled down to mostly having a blue muscle fiber exterior[[labelnote:*]]This wasn't originally clear in ''Fusion'', as the blue portions of the Fusion Suit had more of a shiny silicone-like appearance. [[{{Retcon}} Retroactively]], this was changed when it reappeared in ''VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns'' (donned only in [[HarderThanHard Fusion Mode]]) and ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'' (seen in the intro, showcasing flashbacks of a few events from ''Fusion''), now having a muscle fiber exterior[[/labelnote]]. Sometime before ''Dread'' takes place, the suit had apparently regenerated parts of its mechanical plating. Even when it gains more plating as it upgrades into the Varia Suit, then later into the Gravity Suit, all these variations for the suit still showcase bits of its muscle fibers. [[spoiler:And much later on in ''Dread'', Samus' Metroid DNA fully awakens [[NotQuiteDead after seemingly being killed]] by Raven Beak. This causes her suit to transform into the [[EleventhHourSuperpower Metroid Suit]]. Its exterior lacks the muscle fibers from before, but is now clearly plated with a green organic exoskeleton, complete with carapace and fang-like protrusions all over. Samus' glowing red visor and the red TronLines seen on the Metroid Suit's armor are the only things keeping it from looking completely organic, although said Tron Lines are patterned in a way that look almost like veins.]]

* Taken to the LogicalExtreme in ''ComicBook/OrcStain'', where nearly ''all'' technology is like this, even when its totally unnecessary and makes no sense; we see stuff like axes with blinking eyes, living [[BearsAreBadNews bear-like]] strongboxes that attack you if you open them wrong, birds used as air horns, and even a ''soda can'' that begs for mercy and screams in agony as its opened.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergod}}'', [[FesteringFungus Morrigan]] [[EldritchAbomination Lugus]] is identified by the narrator to possibly be a mycological computer on a meat substrate, essentially a fungal computer. To wit, when not deciding to use sound to speak, it sometimes would communicate by emitting radio signals, and other times would "eject spores, a 4-phosporolated indole full of digital code".
* The Elite ''ComicBook/WhatsSoFunnyAboutTruthJusticeAndTheAmericanWay'' and [[WesternAnimation/SupermanVsTheElite the animated adaptation]] have a bio-organic starship that even features a nifty and [[TeleportSpam easily spammable teleporter]]. It's actually a living bacterial colony from another dimension who the Elite enslaved by removing her higher-brain centers. [[spoiler:When Superman restores her sentience at the end of the story, she's all too happy to help him beat them at their own game.]]
* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', creating organic technology is a major project for [[BigBad the Grand Architect]] and his minions. [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]], as it takes a huge amount of trial-and-error to create even the most basic things, and most of their experiments in this vein end in failure; at one point we see a ship of theirs that had a biotechnological room... which proceeded to [[{{Squick}} bleed severely and decay after taking enough damage]], with the blood leaking into critical systems and tainting the fuel supply, causing the ship to crash.

* This is a central trope of ''ComicBook/DawnOfX'', as all of the Krakoan facilities and machinery are made out of plant material integrated with nanotechnology, from their teleport gates to their famed resurrection chambers.

%%* ''Fanfic/VariantStrain'': A ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' × ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' cross-fic, taking place in a combined setting. Peter Parker is the protagonist.