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Can [[Applied Phlebotinum|function as any number of useful tools]], like a communicator, a firearm, a light, a scanner, a music player, a wristwatch, etc. Typically, this will appear in sci-fi shows as a device from which characters can access a wide variety of tools. Also, unlike a hand-held device, being wrist-mounted makes it "Hands Free", meaning it won't get lost, dropped or hinder the user by limiting the number of hands they might need in a given situation. Truly a remarkable device.
Compare: [[Comm Links]] (can be worn on the wrist), [[Gadget Watch]] (with other built-in special devices).
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== [[Film]] ==
* [[Spy Kids]]
* Subverted in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'', where Buzz ''thinks'' he has a wrist gadget, but as Woody points out, it's just a sticker.
* The main character of ''[[Cowboys and Aliens (film)|Cowboys and Aliens]]'' wears one, which turns out to be an [[Arm Cannon]].
* The watch [[James Bond]] wears usually has some non-wrist watch functions.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The ''[[Fallout]]'' series' PipBoy 3000 was introduced as a bulky, [[Zeerust]] tablet computer complete with vacuum tubes, but its incarnations in ''[[Fallout 3]]'' and ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' are as smaller, wrist-mounted devices. The PipBoy's uses include but are not limited to data storage, inventory management, topographical mapping, assisted targeting, medical diagnostics, and radio receiver.
* [[Commander Keen]]'s [http://www.shikadi.net/keenwiki/ComputerWrist ComputerWrist]
* The Omnitools from the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' series.
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* The titular hero of ''[[Phantom 2040]]'' has a pair.
* Partway through the fourth and final series ''[[Kim Possible]]'' gets a new Kimmunicator in the form of a watch. It even has a grappling line in it, [[Hammerspace|somehow]].
* Both of the [[Swat Kats]] wear the Glovatrix, a wrist-mounted item featuring multiple weapons and tools.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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