One of the concepts I've loved seeing in various properties is the idea of objects that are both high-tech and magical, and I was disappointed to find that the only example in the Technology Guide or the various Iron Gods books seems to be the Technic League's coveted null blades.
Does anyone have any suggestions or homebrew items like that they've used in their Iron Gods campaigns? Obviously it doesn't have to be confined to Iron Gods-- any world with magic and technology would suffice. I don't own any Shadowrun source material, but I suspect there's something there.
If anyone expresses any interest, I'll use this thread to post the items I've been putting together for my own Iron Gods group in order to fill what I perceive as a void in the published material.
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There's a couple of other line-blurring items in print, from way back in Pathfinder Adventure Path #35: War of the River Kings. They're not terribly impressive - one is a mind-control rod similar to a rod of rulership, and the other is a halberd that fires razor darts. In lore, they're both pure-tech, but they work more like magic items.
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As I recall, Iron Gods also had examples of weapons with basic enchantments (e.g. +1 Shock Chain Saw)... and of course, the Divinity Drive demonstrates the trope that at a certain point the distinction becomes meaningless.
The obvious combinations would be weapon and armor enhancements, powered items which are automatically recharged by magic, the equivalent of a 'beaker of plentiful potions' for pharmaceuticals, spell grenades, et cetera.
You have to be careful though, because it is almost trivially easy to combine technology and magic into something grossly over-powered. For example: Cast shrink item (the most over-powered spell in existence IMO) on some plutonium from a fission reactor. Seal the little cloth plutonium inside something solid (e.g. adamantine block). Wait for spell to expire or trigger it early and you've got a nuclear detonation.