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So I have had this idea for a while and there is a ton of scope for features beyond this description. The idea is there is a new gadget called This. You place it in a chip or attach it to an object. It then provides an interface to information about This. A bit like the puppet interface. It would have the following:

(input/output/tweak) group A (see below)
(input/output/tweak) group B
(input/output/tweak) group C
(input/output/tweak) group D
(input) signal to emitter (see below)
(output) unique id that is instantly and automatically generated
(output) detected by laser
(output) detected by zone
(output) decteted by collision
(output) value A from emitter at creation time
(output) value B from emitter at creation time
(output) value C from emitter at creation time
(output) value D from emitter at creation time
(output) current scene space transform
(output) current speed
(output) current acceleration
(output) signal from query gadget (see below)

So now we have a way to read/write information related to This. There would then be some improvements to the emitter object. The emitter object would have the following:

(input) value A
(input) value B
(input) value C
(input) value D

These inputs would be transmitted into the This gadget immediately upon the object being emitted. After this the values would remain unchanged, even if we changed value A on the emitter. It is a bit like constructor arguments in programming. I want to create an Item and I want its starting health to be 34 so I input "34" to value A.

The emitter would also have:

(output) singal from emitted

This would allow the emitted object to send a signal back to the emitter it was originally emitted from. This could be useful for a lot of things!

The final piece of the puzzle is the Query gadget. This clever little gadget lets us specify certain filters and then send a signal to all This gadgets that match. The Query gadget would have:

(input/tweak) group
(input) value to send
(output) number of This matched

So we would tweak the Query gadget and specify which groups to send it to. Then when we feed a value into the Query value input. Every this gadget that matches those filters would receive a signal!

As I said at the start this is the basic idea. There are more inputs/outputs/tweaks/filters I could suggest but I thought I would just keep it to the minimum!