Editing Sonic screwdriver (section)

=== 2010–2015 ===
In "[[The Eleventh Hour (Doctor Who)|The Eleventh Hour]]" (2010), the malfunctioning sonic screwdriver is destroyed when the Doctor tries to signal the Atraxi ships. The Doctor later receives a new one, which emerges from the newly regenerated TARDIS console. The [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s sonic screwdriver is larger than its predecessor; it has a green light and metal claws that extend with a flick of the wrist. It is shown to have been created by the TARDIS as part of its automatic regeneration.

In "[[A Christmas Carol (Doctor Who)|A Christmas Carol]]" (2010), the Doctor advises a young Kazran Sardick to pursue romance while implying that in a similar situation in his own past he had instead gone to his room to "design a new kind of screwdriver."
Also in that episode, the sonic screwdriver gets split into two pieces, one of which ends up inside a flying shark. The remaining piece is said to be signalling its other half in an effort to repair itself. The Doctor uses this to send a signal through the half inside the sky shark to open up the clouds. Afterwards, the half not in the shark is left with Kazran Sardick. The Doctor tells Kazran that he can call him for help using the Sonic; though Kazran declines to do so. The Doctor had duplicates of this screwdriver, which he continued to use throughout his travels.

In "[[Let's Kill Hitler]]" (2011), it is explained that instead of having settings, this version operates through a psychic interface, basically doing whatever the user thinks of while pointing and holding down the button. This version of the screwdriver also appears, although never officially announced, to have a flashlight setting, as the Doctor is seen to have it emitting a continuous glow while not uttering the classic sonic noise. Also in the episode, the Doctor uses another modified version of his sonic, which he calls a "Sonic Cane". It is similar to a Tuxedo cane, except the top replaced with the upper portion of his screwdriver, with a metal ball cut in fourths attached to the claws.

Ahead of the 50th anniversary special, a mini-episode entitled "[[The Night of the Doctor]]" (2013) was produced in which the Eighth Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver twice. The Doctor uses his telescopic screwdriver previously seen in the [[Doctor Who (film)|TV movie]], rather than his updated steampunk version which had been used in numerous [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]] audio dramas.

For the 50th anniversary special, "[[The Day of the Doctor]]" (2013), another version was seen in the hands of John Hurt's [[War Doctor]]. The design was similar to the one used by Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor. This time the halo and bullet tip had been removed, replaced by a red light as well as a large red dial added to the base. Character Options released a version of this sonic screwdriver on 23 November 2013 at London's ExCel labelling it "The Other Doctor's Sonic".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://merchandise.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/doctor-who-london-excel-convention-pictures/|title=Doctor Who London Excel Convention Pictures|work=The Doctor Who Site}}</ref> It was established as a plot point in that episode that the sonic screwdrivers employed by various Doctor incarnations all use the same software, something the War Doctor exploited by running a calculation over a course of several centuries with the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors seeing the calculation completed through their models. It is also directly implied after the fact that the sonic screwdriver has actually been a part of every doctor's retinue, despite its disappearance for doctors six & seven; the Tenth Doctor says to the Gallifreyan high command, as all thirteen doctors are about to change history by saving the planet, that the calculations for doing what's about to be done have been "running all my lives." In addition, when combined, the screwdrivers of the War, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctor could create a sonic force field blast to repel and destroy a Dalek.

"[[The Magician's Apprentice (Doctor Who)|The Magician's Apprentice]]" (2015) shows that the sonic screwdriver can create "an acoustic corridor" so that the [[Twelfth Doctor]] can communicate with a boy trapped in an extraterrestrial mine field.  However, when the Doctor discovers that the boy is actually a young [[Davros]], he abandons the boy, leaving the screwdriver behind, though it is revealed that he did save young Davros after all. Davros is shown to have kept the screwdriver in his possession ever since, and the Doctor tells [[Clara Oswald|Clara]] that he no longer has a screwdriver. By that time, the screwdriver had been withered and damaged by time and was seemingly useless.

==== Sonic sunglasses ====
In his first appearance at the beginning of [[Doctor Who (series 9)|series nine]] of ''Doctor Who'', the Doctor is seen wearing black [[Ray-Ban]] [[sunglasses]] ("[[The Magician's Apprentice (Doctor Who)|The Magician's Apprentice]]"), and he says that he no longer has his sonic screwdriver. Later, in "[[The Witch's Familiar]]", he unveils that the sunglasses are actually a wearable version of the screwdriver, claiming that he is "over" screwdrivers: "They spoil the line of your jacket." The glasses are used by the Doctor, and Clara on occasion, throughout the ninth series.

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:

* Allowing the Doctor to hear people talking, even if they are several yards away and surrounded by loud noises ("The Magician's Apprentice").
* Reassembling the TARDIS after it has used its Hostile Action Dispersal System to avoid destruction by the [[Dalek]]s ("The Witch's Familiar").
* Creating and controlling a sophisticated hologram of the Doctor through a [[WiFi]] system ("[[Before the Flood (Doctor Who)|Before the Flood]]").
* Erasing alien encoding inside people's brains by having them don the glasses for a few minutes ("Before the Flood").
* Reading [[Internet]] pages and [[e-mail]] ("[[The Zygon Inversion]]" and "[[Extremis (Doctor Who)|Extremis]]").
* Communicating with [[Gallifrey]]an battle cruisers ("[[Hell Bent (Doctor Who)|Hell Bent]]").

The glasses appear to be more susceptible to damage than the screwdriver; in "[[The Girl Who Died]]", a [[Vikings|Viking]] warrior takes the glasses off the Doctor's face and easily breaks them in half. Nevertheless, the glasses continue to appear via replacement or repair until the end of the season. They return the following season during the Doctor's temporary period of blindness, showing the ability to scan his surroundings and transmit the information to his brain, as well as transmit any data recorded to them. However, while he is able to tell things about a person such as height, weight, gender, age, and even heart rate, he does not get enough detail to know faces, clothing, etc. ("Extremis") He was once able to tell that a person was holding a computer tablet, but not what was written on it, as well as 'see' a combination lock but not the numbers. ("[[The Pyramid at the End of the World]]") In his final adventure, the Doctor uses the glasses briefly to examine the Testimony interface, much to the confusion and irritation of the [[First Doctor]] ("[[Twice Upon a Time (Doctor Who)|Twice Upon a Time]]").