There are lots of items that are extremely nice to have in certain situations. The key for those sorts of enhancements is not paying too much for such a situational ability.
- I love mnemonic enhancers for adding dice directly to language as well as knowledge and memory checks. It lets very low investments in languages (or knowledge) become more useful, which can be handy in a lot of situations, and this is a very cheap enhancement.
- There is a bodyware whose name I forget right now (maybe platelet factory, but I’m not sure) that reduces damage of two or more boxes by one (two becomes one, three becomes two, etc.). It seems to work well for fairly tough NPC who can reduce damage enough with soak that it normally takes several hits to take them down, but I’ve not tried it on a PC (granted there are a lot of situations where it doesn’t help—you’d have a better idea in your game of how often you’d expect to take physical vs stun damage, etc.).
- Voice modulator at a low rating gives you some nice vocal options for cheap as well as a small bonus in certain situations.
- Olfactory booster can be very interesting if you have decent perception (“the room looks clear, but you can smell stress sweat and stale soy-caff breath ...”) but maybe not as much for your particular character.
- An internal comm link is very handy if you are sometimes walking into situations where your gear is going to be stripped away or your every move watched (combine with cyber eyes for the image link).
- I’m not sure if it is canon or not, but I assume that if you have ultrasonic sensor you can put it on passive mode to listen for motion detectors, which can be handy during infiltration, but again that may not be a good match for your particular character (and it is available as gear).
- Datajack, for plugging directly into gear when wireless absolutely must be off.
- A small hidden compartment of some sort that contains a standard hand-cuffs key and a small sharp blade, and put a point into escape artist (you may not be very good, but that is what you save edge for…).