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Fallout is a warning from the oddball future of wearables
A look at the satirical force behind Fallout's most famous gadget.
When Fallout 4 came out with a full-scale Pip-Boy model, back in 2015, I'm deeply ashamed to remind you that we made Johnny Chiodini spend a week wearing it. The series' opening episode quickly draws a connection between the pre-Wasteland world, in which almost nobody notices a nuclear bomb going off outside because they're indoors watching television, and the era of the Vaults, in which a main character makes a petition to an advisory board, and is answered by three officials prodding their Pip-Boys rather than speaking - before her own Pip-Boy informs her of their decision. After all, my hearing aid, in a previous era, would have been a small trumpet that I would carry around with me and shove in my ear during conversations, and look how that turned out.
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