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* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' calls this "hextech", and most of the technology in the game utilizes this. The champions that utilize hextech are associated with one of two city-states: the lawful-aligned Piltover, and the chaotic-aligned Zaun. Some of the more interesting examples of hextech include a hammer that can transform into an energy cannon, and a cyborg mad scientist with a third, mechanical arm that fires chaos beams.

* ''League Of Legends'' calls this "hextech", and most of the technology in the game utilizes this. The champions that utilize hextech are associated with one of two city-states: the lawful-aligned Piltover, and the chaotic-aligned Zaun. Some of the more interesting examples of hextech include a hammer that can transform into an energy cannon, and a cyborg mad scientist with a third, mechanical arm that fires chaos beams.

* In HayaoMiyazaki's ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'', (and to a lesser extent Creator/DianaWynneJones's [[Literature/HowlsMovingCastle book of the same name]] on which it was loosely based) the structure is maintained by the wizard's magic. Moreover, the kingdoms of the world which the film takes place actively make use of witches and wizards to fight in wars, in addition to more standard weapons and tactics.

* In ''MahouSenseiNegima'' technology seems to have been more or less fully integrated with magic. Magic Guns are considered antiques. The local RobotGirl runs partially on magic, and there's an entire Magic ''Internet'' that can be accessed by magic books ''or'' computers complete with program, hacking, and virus spells. Not to mention Magical Flying Warships such as the [[CoolShip Paru-sama]][[hottip:Specification:A Goldfish-Style Aerofish with a high-propulsion-pentagram-18-prayer-spirit engine and anti-pirate military-grade armaments]]

** There was a twist of the VancianMagic in AD&D 2 ''College of Wizardry'' [[hottip:--: reappeared in D&D 3 ''Tome and Blood'', used for "Mage of the Arcane Order" class, which in turn was reused in D&D 3.5 ''Complete Arcane'' and customized as "Guild Wizard" in [[ForgottenRealms Magic of Faerûn]] the spellcrux, or spellpool. It's a bank/server that stores spell-patterns, so that wizards with remote access can save memorized spells and later get and cast stored ones. They're still limited to normal total capacity, but gives more choice (if different wizards contribute different spells) and flexibility (instead of a fixed UtilityBelt they get what they need right now). Has checking "credit balance", admin account and all that.

* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games frequently feature portable electronic devices called COMPS that automatically perform the complex magical ritual of summoning demons into the moral world. Examples include ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'', ''VideoGame/SoulHackers'', and ''VideoGame/StrangeJourney''.

* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei: VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'' uses portable electronic devices called COMPS to automatically perform the complex magical ritual of summoning demons into the moral world. Finding the MagiTek demon-summoning server controlling this is a major plot-point.

* Some anthropologists have actually defined magic as a type of pseudotechnology as it works on a perception of the laws of the universe rather then on a supplication of the universe. That is the comparison with concepts of the supernatural is only the incidental one that both claim to be at least capable of affecting the universe in unusual way, but magic comes from the magician's ingenuity and is thus in a way no different then an engineer's "magic" which also as it happens has "fantastical" results but was built upon repeated experiments.

** {{Played with}} as the magic for the cars and motorcycles comes from the mage who uses them, via a device attached to the user so only mages can use them ; they exhaust the user if used for not all that long, making them rare.

* There are some examples in JKRowling's ''HarryPotter'' franchise. Especially noticeable within the realm of the live-action films. This is used to the point where technology is referred to as a [[{{Muggles}} Muggle]] substitute for magic (in ''HarryPotter and the Order of the Phoenix''). Examples of magic being used as technology don't occur much in the story itself, but it is clear from the dialogue that this is how it is used in the larger world the books take place in. Wizards don't seem to understand the Muggle concepts of "light bulbs" or "telephones" for example. The self-writing quills are word processors that suit the personal tastes and writing style of the writer: see Rita Skeeter's acid quill for that one. Then there are self-stirring cauldrons, sneakoscopes (alarms), wireless radios, broomsticks, apparating, the flying carpets, floo network, and portkeys (transportation); the Portrait Galleries that often act like a vast, sentient internet for anyone that happens to be able to persuade them. Lovegood's antique printing press - if the Quibbler has it, why not the Daily Prophet and every wizarding publisher in existence?

* Jack L. Chalker's ''Dancing Gods'' trilogy had its characters TrappedInAnotherWorld where magic was real, but [[MagicAIsMagicA followed very specific rules]] and mathematically precise patterns, such that every high-ranking wizard also had to be a genius mathematician. One of the major subplots follows how much this system is screwed up by the introduction of technology smuggled from Earth; even a pocket calculator could turn a mediocre magician into a powerhouse, and more powerful computers can be programmed to work out new spells at high speeds.

* The Commonwealth in Patrick Rothfuss' ''Kingkiller Chronicles'' uses a lot of this. Other nations do too but to a lesser extent because the main source of magitek is The University, located in the Commonwealth.

* ''{{Terraria}}'''s world seems to run on magitek, with its mana-powered {{Ray Gun}}s and RocketBoots.

* ''PowerRangers'' is filled with magic/technology hybrid gear. We ''start'' with an ancient wizard in a high-tech command center that runs the Rangers' gear by channeling the power of the vaguely-defined Morphin' Grid versus an alien witch released from [[SealedEvilInACan the can]] by astronauts. HumongousMecha powered by the spirits of dinosaurs. MagiBabble and TechnoBabble combined by RobotBuddy Alpha. The entire "Zordon era" of the franchise was characterized by this, and while the later stand alone series tend to be magical ''or'' technological, a few later series have gone back to it (and the Grid is the source of ''all'' Ranger powers.) [[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury Spiritual energy-powered]] {{BFG}}, anyone?

* The seven Chaos Emeralds and the Master Emerald were described as magical in [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic X]] (and their effect on Sonic and Shadow could be said to be magic), yet were often used to power technology based equipment, such as Eggman’s robots, and the [[AbnormalAmmo Sonic Driver]].

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog''. Chaos Emeralds. You know the drill by now. Though with the video games, it's shown much more differently. In ''Sonic3AndKnuckles'', Dr. Eggman's Death Egg Suit uses the Master Emerald as a WaveMotionGun while Mecha Sonic uses it to super charge himself and take up a SuperMode. In ''SonicAdventure2'', it was shown that it was possible to create a fake Emerald. As well, Professor Gerald Robotnik created the Eclipse Cannon, which would use the Chaos Emeralds as a powerful KillSat. ''SonicBattle'' had Eggman break a Chaos Emerald and use them to power his Chaos Gamma army. ''SonicAdvance3'' had Eggman use the Emeralds to break the world into pieces, something he'd do again in ''SonicUnleashed''.

* ''{{GURPS}} Technomancer'' is what you get when you turn the Trinity Event into a necromantic ritual of immense proportions, completed by the Famous Oppenheimer Quote. Nikita Khrushchev claiming Soviet Union has entire armies of wizards? U.S. Army winning Vietnam War using dragons, weaponized flying carpets and zombies made from Vietcong corpses? Space travel by teleportation spells? Gene-engineered Stealth Dragons (with vampire genes, no less)? Oh yes...

* ''{{GURPS}} Technomancer'' is what you get when you turn the Trinity Event into a necromantic ritual of immense proportions, completed by the Famous Oppenheimer Quote. Nikita Khrustschev claiming Soviet Union has entire armies of wizards? U.S. Army winning Vietnam War using dragons, weaponized flying carpets and zombies made from Vietcong corpses? Space travel by teleportation spells? Gene-engineered Stealth Dragons (with vampire genes, no less)? Oh yes...

* The enemies called [[DemonicSpiders Wizzerds]] in VideoGame/PaperMario are half mechanic half organic magic using creatures that can shoot lightning, duplicate themselves and take tons of damage. As the tattle for the normal one puts it:

* In ''[[WebComic/EightBitTheater 8-Bit Theater]]'', the visible Sky Castle is described as being an "ancient flying techno-magic castle.

** If we want to talk about Magitek as "combination of technology and magic", Arthur's flying car is the best example, and there's also the entire Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office, which shows that such things are possible but illegal in the wizarding world. This is simply a matter of maintaining TheMasquerade: combining Muggle technology with magic makes it far more likely for the object to end up in Muggle hands, thus revealing the existence of magic.

* ''TalesOfMU''.

* The country/planet Autozahm from ''MagicKnightRayearth'' is an entirely "mechanized" industrial power that runs on [[LifeEnergy "Mental Energy"]] instead of electricity; which has screwed up their environment in addition to sending them into comas. So they've sent an invasion force made up of a spaceship and HumongousMecha to take over the more classical magic system of Cephiro, which itself has 'rune gods' in the form of giant robots.
* ''{{MAR}}'' has [=ÄRMs=], magical jewelry with a variety of cool forms and abilities. Each ÄRM is a blueprint for a specific magical ability, such as summoning a giant guardian or [[WaveMotionGun shooting out huge beams of energy]] (in some cases, ''both''), among others. Justified since this gimmick is ''incredibly'' convenient, meaning that [=ÄRMs=] can be used by {{muggles}} for mundane activities.
* All over the place in ''[[LyricalNanoha Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', though most notable in the third season where this is lampshaded by Fate giving an AsYouKnow speech about how the TSAB's civilization literally discarded conventional technology because magic was more advanced and safer.

* ''{{MAR}}'' has ÄRM's, magical jewelry with a variety of cool forms and abilities. Each ÄRM is a blueprint for a specific magical ability, such as summoning a giant guardian or [[WaveMotionGun shooting out huge beams of energy]] (in some cases, ''both''), among others. Justified since this gimmick is ''incredibly'' convenient, meaning that ÄRMs can be used by {{muggles}} for mundane activities.