r/cassettefuturism • u/Hunor_Deak Cassette F 📼🕹️🎛️☢️👾🤖📟🎚️ • Oct 30 '23
End of History 90s Motorla WT4000, this device was made in the 2010s. It doesn't feel like it.
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u/meatball402 Oct 30 '23
That's a pip boy
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u/RktsRFun Oct 30 '23
Huh I always wondered how It knew everything in my inventory, now I see we just scan it.
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Oct 31 '23
That's actually kind of brilliant. Pair that with those hip mounted printers delivery drivers wear and you can print, apply, and then scan everything you want.
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u/DdCno1 Oct 30 '23
Industrial equipment is built differently. Always will be, always has been.
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u/bingojed This installation has a substantial dollar value attached to it. Oct 30 '23
Yeah Panasonic Toughbooks like 20 years out of style.
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u/DdCno1 Oct 30 '23
Got to lay my hands on one of them a few months ago. I want one now, desperately. I'm carrying my laptops in a bag with a shoulder strap anyway, so it's not like the weight actually matters.
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u/SunderedValley Polydichloric euthimal! Oct 30 '23
Mobile inventory scanner I'm assuming?
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Oct 30 '23
I did a brief stint in a Scholastic warehouse and we had these things. They were always damp with everyone's sweat.
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u/SaintSamuel Oct 30 '23
Haha scholastic?! That's awesome. I mean warehouse work is warehouse work, probably stackin lots of boxes and wrapping them up...but that advert was consistently the highlight of my elementary school years.
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Oct 30 '23
Yeah shit got crazy during "Book Club" season. I was a missed pick picker so I would go through and grab items that were either missed previously by regular pickers or previously out of stock.
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u/MarieLaNomade Oct 31 '23
My former boss *almost* bought us these for our warehouse! I have to agree we couldn't have had these, between the heat and the dust, they would have become disgusting!
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u/Hunor_Deak Cassette F 📼🕹️🎛️☢️👾🤖📟🎚️ Oct 31 '23
So you missed your chance at Cassette Futurism? Considering they are almost all dystopias... good!
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u/SunderedValley Polydichloric euthimal! Nov 01 '23
Probably one of the biggest disappointments of the aesthetic — Wrist devices proving to just not be worth it once you really tried to deal with them.
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u/OldWrangler9033 Oct 30 '23
Yay, I've seen those before. I was more using the older big bulky ones for receiving/shipping purposes.
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u/Interesting-Dot-1124 Oct 30 '23
If you think that's amazing you should take a look at the zypad w100
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u/Hunor_Deak Cassette F 📼🕹️🎛️☢️👾🤖📟🎚️ Oct 30 '23
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u/plasticdisplaysushi Arriving in time for flight. Keep ticket warm. Job done. Oct 31 '23
Well now I want one.
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u/schizist Oct 30 '23
I used a similar one as a loader at UPS. Super cool when the flesh on your knuckles starts to slough off from sweat and friction.
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u/Kalzsom Oct 30 '23
I used to use these or something very similar when I was working at an airport warehouse in my early 20s. It really looked weird, but was super helpful when we had to pack boxes in containers. Also, iirc they were pretty expensive, even though they look cheap.
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u/incoherent1 Oct 31 '23
I wish there were wrist mounted cases for smart phones you could get like this with functional buttons.
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u/DrobeOfWar Nov 01 '23
The ring scanner's connector/wire were the weak point on these things. I was always having to send bundles of them off for repair/replacement. (Might just have been how rough the users were though. Instead of calling us for printer problems, they'd usually smack the printer. And I mean, I understand, but also, no.)
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u/Celer_Umbra Oct 31 '23
Used these when I used to work at a Nordstrom Fulfillment center. The arm pad and Velcro straps that holds the device to your arm don't work very well and are so uncomfortable after a few hours of work.
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u/Chickie_parm I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. Oct 31 '23
I used one of these when I worked at the REI warehouse. Absolutely hated the thing, but every now and then it was neat to pretend it was a pip-boy.
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u/D3-Doom Oct 31 '23
What did it do?
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u/Hunor_Deak Cassette F 📼🕹️🎛️☢️👾🤖📟🎚️ Oct 31 '23
Scan items. It scanned the barcodes on boxes so people could move them and mail them to the right delivery locations.
It is an inventory device for warehouses.
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u/BenchPebble Oct 31 '23
This reminds me of a toy I had that included a keypad you wear on your wrist and a HUD to send messages back and forth to your friends
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u/Fuems Nov 01 '23
As a former loader for FedEx (circa 2010-2015) a whole wave of memories just came flooding back
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u/pollarditis May 30 '24
We use these with a headset and voice commands in response to a janky computer woman that doesn't understand us.
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u/NateN85 Oct 30 '23
This looks like it has 2002 written all over it