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.
I also was a package handler for fedex those arm computers made your arm so hot and sweaty while in a 110F+ trailer
Can you tell me more about your sweaty package handling?
Yes I can “SatansMaggotyCumFart”
Our building had bay doors lined up on one side of the building, it was the off season so we would only use the first quarter of bay doors. At the end of line of garage doors we would use the last 1-3 bays as a sort of “overflow” (I was only there for a few months so I didn’t fully know what they were for.)
We would call it the “abyss” because no one went back there, and there were a few lights out so it was kinda dark. I mostly worked there, when it was a heavy day and the belts were pretty full they would send all packages to the abyss and we would get so back up with packages it worked jam halfway up the shoot to the trailer. So we would have to get a ladder and a stick to fix the jam.
We would sometimes solve the jamming issue by spraying lube on the shoots to help them slide better. It would make the shoots very slick if you tried to walk on them. Also we had fans blowing air into the trailer and if it was a very hot day they would just blew already hot air into a hotter trailer.
I had a joke about you and the Platinum Chip, but I lost it at that funny description. I bet in Fallout world many people have disproportional arm muscles due to swinging around pre-war Pip Boys on their hands.
I too have a disproportionate arm from uhhh... swinging around... arm computers... yeah that's why.
It’s that thing Turanga Leela wears!
I was curious if Leela's thing had a name, and according to the wiki it's apparently called a Wrist Lojak-a-mater..
I don't think "wrist LoJak-a-mater" was meant to be the name of the device, I think it's just the name of the device's tracking feature and the author of the fandom page is jumping to conclusions.
I bet you're right. I feel like Leela has called it a few different things over the years.
She once referred to it as, "this thing I wear on my wrist."
War, war never changes...
I'll buy it from you for 1,500 caps
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
I have the same problem with my watch. I could tighten it but then it starts to hurt. Anyways I keep it just loose enough to be comfortable but tight enough I can correct it every half hour.
FedEx package warehouse used theses when I worked there.
They weren't these exact models when I was there in 2013-2014, but they're definitely similar. The finger scanner thing was so cool; I was always playing with it when there weren't any packages coming down the conveyor.
FedEx used their own custom version that booted directly into the proprietary scanner system. The new version uses Android (probably 10 or lower) and does the exact same thing. Also, the scanner attachment is now Bluetooth, which only seems like an upgrade until you give it more than one second of thought and realize how easy they are to lose.
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.
Current versions of this run Android.
They’re made by Zebra who bought the Symbol barcode reader company, who bought the Motorola mobile computer business. The hardware is basically the same though.
https://www.zebra.com/us/en/products/mobile-computers/wearable-computers/wt6300.html
Yeah, but they are only marginally better. It's like moving from a hopelessly out of date platform to one that is only five years old. Is it better than what you had? Without a doubt. Does that make it good? Fuck no.
No, they’re a lot better. The touch screen is actually usable and Android is incredibly much better than WinCE 7. Is it better than a mobile phone? No. Is it much much more durable than a mobile phone? Yes.
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)
I miss their sound so much
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Can you imagine how much of a dork you’d look wearing this thing?
I can and I am loving it.
It's for work-related use, not for personal use. You'd never see someone wearing this outside of the workplace.
Clearly you're only friends with boring people
Strap this bad boy on, head on out to the singles' bar.
...do singles' bars even exist anymore? Am I showing my age? Aw hell... they were old news even in my bachelor days.
How about swingers' clubs?
Strap this bad boy on, sashay - or strut - on out to your friendly local neighborhood swingers' club.
its a goddamned pipboy.
Hope it doesnt come complete with skeletal remains.
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.
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?
I'm seeing them between $60-2000 at a quick search.
That is a... very wide range.
Yeah, like I'll take the $60 one please
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.
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