Doctor Who Doctor Sonic Screwdriver

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In " The Woman Who Fell to Earth", the Thirteenth Doctor is depicted constructing a new sonic screwdriver out of scrap metal and an orange glowing device from an alien travel capsule. She proudly proclaims that the new screwdriver is forged out of "Sheffield steel". This iteration of the sonic screwdriver glows throughout its body with an orange light when activated. It was destroyed by a Dalek in part seven of the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip "Liberation of the Daleks" while in the Fourteenth Doctor's possession. Reassembling the TARDIS after it has used its Hostile Action Dispersal System to avoid destruction by the Daleks ("The Witch's Familiar").

Despite having since replaced it, a version of this screwdriver was kept in the Twelfth Doctor's office at St Luke's University along with most of its predecessors. ( TV: The Pilot) In Children of Earth, Gwen Cooper uses a similar device, which she refers to as a Gizmo, to deactivate CCTV cameras.Creating an acoustic corridor to allow communication from 50 feet away. ( TV: The Magician's Apprentice) In Enemy of the Bane, Mrs Wormwood ( Samantha Bond) possesses a sonic device disguised as a ring called the "Phonic disruptor". Protecting two versions of Rory Williams from falling victim to the Blinovitch Limitation Effect ( PROSE: Touched by an Angel) Chang Lee discovers the sonic screwdriver among the things he stole from the Seventh Doctor. ( TV: Doctor Who)

To send a signal through to Amy's communicator to help guide her through a forest. ( TV: Flesh and Stone) The sonic screwdriver could amplify sound waves to become hypersonic from various audio devices, including radios, speakers and, once, a pipe organ. ( TV: The Runaway Bride, Evolution of the Daleks, The Lazarus Experiment) In conjunction with Miss Foster's sonic pen, it created an ultra-high sonic frequency. ( TV: Partners in Crime) The sonic screwdriver could also calculate resonation patterns for materials like concrete, ( TV: The Doctor Dances) and increase the radiation output of an x-ray scanner, though the latter burned out the device. ( TV: Smith and Jones)When used on technology, the sonic screwdriver would determine a device's function, ( TV: The Beast Below) how advanced it was, ( TV: A Town Called Mercy) the nature of their controls ( TV: A Christmas Carol) and if they were connected to other devices. ( TV: The Big Bang) The Doctor would also use it to scan for information on computers and database systems. ( TV: The Time of Angels, The Wedding of River Song) In conjunction with a satellite dish, the Eleventh Doctor once used the sonic screwdriver to locate his TARDIS. ( TV: The Big Bang) The screwdriver was given a rest once more in series 9, only appearing in The Magician's Apprentice, and a new version was introduced in the last episode Hell Bent. It was replaced by sonic sunglasses for that entire season. Malankar, Nikhil (28 March 2017). "Sonic Screwdriver: 50 Uses of This Device From Doctor Who". Tell Me Nothing. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017 . Retrieved 9 August 2017. Receiving a signal from the TARDIS indicating that it had returned and indicating its location. ( TV: Cold War)

The sonic screwdriver could also detect, triangulate and deactivate signals. ( TV: Rose, Army of Ghosts, etc.) It could scan pieces of technology to discover their properties and faults. ( TV: Midnight, The Next Doctor) It could also analyse objects ( TV: The Eleventh Hour, COMIC: Doomsilk) or detect certain materials in the area. ( COMIC: The Halls of Sacrifice) These included time traces ( TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith) and forms of energy. ( COMIC: Mortal Beloved) The Eighth Doctor also carried a similar rod model near the end of his life: Cylindrical and silver, with a blue emitter diode tip, he used it in a surgical procedure to scan his patient and to seal incisions. This model could glow with an "almost white" light and emit great heat, be used to sharpen surgical instruments and be turned "on" and "off". ( PROSE: Osskah) The sonic sunglasses appears to have the same basic functions as the traditional sonic screwdriver, such as scanning objects, while having features not seen before:Seemingly adding an extra layer of super-dense water vapour to keep the Ice Governess "trapped for the moment" ( TV: The Snowmen) Sealing the trapdoor that Gantok fell down, out of fear of the carnivorous skulls. ( TV: The Wedding of River Song) Creating and controlling a sophisticated hologram of the Doctor through a WiFi system (" Before the Flood").