We had to wear one of these while I was a package handler for FedEx. It was tied into a scanner unit attached to your finger, scan packages as you load.

You'd think you'd get used to it, but it always felt like I had a tumor strapped to my arm while trying to sling things around.

It’s that thing Turanga Leela wears!

War, war never changes...

I remember using something like this - they can hook up to a barcode scanner you wear on your finger

You had to strap them really tight on your arm, if you didn't the weight of the device would make it rotate around and have the screen point away from you

FedEx package warehouse used theses when I worked there.

There's a lot of wearable/durable tech made for warehouse workers. I wish I had the money to buy all the awesome things I find. They're still semi usable with new software. A lot run on the "mobile" windows architecture which takes Unix/Linux naively.

2006 to 2013 felt longer with those, since you could slow down time on demand.

Reading all the comments reminiscing about using these as if they are now a relic of a bygone era. We errr.. Still use them to this day, I don't believe the company has any plans to upgrade in the near future either.

We also still use dot-matrix printers. They're still being manufactured to this day and the new ones even come with ethernet ports! (As opposed to serial, which again we still have some)

Can you imagine how much of a dork you’d look wearing this thing?

Does it run embedded windows? I could have a field day with this.

We used to use these where I work. They look cool, but they run Windows Mobile and don't have a touch screen so they actually were very cumbersome to use. Luckily we only had to use them to scan barcodes and that app automatically loaded on boot, unless they fucked up. Rock solid, but also made me hate every moment I had to use them, especially when the scanner attachment wouldn't register.

its a goddamned pipboy.

Hope it doesnt come complete with skeletal remains.

Doesn't look older than it is honestly. If you showed me this and asked me how old it is I'd have guessed early aughties

Where can I buy this?

This is equipment for a shipping service or store. They use chunky devices like these to this day.

I saw a video from Voidstar Labs on YouTube where Zach Freedman made a wearable thing like this that also had modular attachments that could be added, like a flash light or IR blaster. Shit was rad.