My Idea

I don't know who said it originally, but I think I agree; Technology sufficiently advanced would be indistinguishable from magic. A common theme in sci-fi is the effect of advanced technology. Whether that technology is alien, from the future or cooked up by a mad scientist. Sometimes the invading alien horde wield unstoppable weapons, ala "War of the Worlds" or some other more subtle forms of technology. 

But did you ever wonder what some one like Archimedes would do with a HP pocket calculator? Or what if Hannibal had access to a few Gatling guns? Or how about some anti-phsychotic drugs for Caligula? Of course those technological artifacts would be "out of context". You would have to teach the recipients not only how to use them, but when and why. Archimedes probably didn't even have arabic numbers and the zero, you'd have to reeducate him before he could use his HP as an example. But what if the technology we're talking about was way in advance of anything in our age, say something that had an artificial intelligence. A product of a civilization more highly evolved than we can currently imagine.  Now hold that thought!

What if the magic talked about in some of our folk tales and legends wasn't magic but super science? For this tale I am planing to use as my inspiration  the classic story of Aladdin. In the story an evil sorcerer tricks the young Aladdin into retrieving a magic lamp from a booby trapped "cave of wonder". Our young protagonist ends up stranded in the cave, but figures out how to conjure the Djinn of the magic ring and later the even mightier Djinn of the lamp to effect his escape and to make himself rich and powerful and of course get the girl of his dreams. 

Now in my retelling of the story I'm giving it a bit of a twist as you shall see. Its going to be a little grittier, a little nastier. I'm going to give Djinn some teeth. Hi-tech teeth that is.