History Main / SuperWristGadget

* The Omnitools from the ''MassEffect'' series.
** By the third game you can stab people with them.

* DickTracy's wrist radio.

* Several {{Magical Girl}}s wear their TransformationTrinket on their wrist: Anime/CorrectorYui, MagicalStarMagicalEmi, YesPrettyCure 5 (before switching to the cellphone-like [=CureMo=]s in ''[=GoGo=]''), LightNovel/{{Kampfer}}, later seasons of ''OjamajoDoremi'', and the FrillyUpgrade powerup in ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch''.

* Several {{Magical Girl}}s wear their TransformationTrinket on their wrist: Anime/CorrectorYui, MagicalStarMagicalEmi, YesPrecure5, LightNovel/{{Kampfer}}, later seasons of ''OjamajoDoremi'', and the FrillyUpgrade powerup in ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch''.

* The ''{{Fallout}}'' series' [=PipBoy 3000=] was introduced as a bulky, {{Zeerust}} tablet computer complete with vacuum tubes, but its incarnations in ''{{Fallout 3}}'' and ''FalloutNewVegas'' 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.

* SpyKids
* Subverted in ''ToyStory'', where Buzz ''thinks'' he has a wrist gadget, but as Woody points out, it's just a sticker.

* The {{Predator}} had a cool wrist device that not only houses his [[BladeBelowTheShoulder wrist blades]], but also a [[NukeEm nuclear]] SelfDestructMechanism. The ''AliensVsPredator'' video games add even more gadgets to it, such as a compact first aid kit or hacking tool.

* The stun guns used in ''{{Pandorum}}''. According to the WordOfGod this was so the character could use his hands for all the physical activity required.

* The {{Predator}} had a cool wrist device which even included a [[NukeEm nuclear]] SelfDestructMechanism.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' The [=PipBoy 3000=] is worn on the player's wrist. In the first two games the device was bulky and weighed many pounds as a result being vacuum tube based ([[{{Zeerust}} like all the setting's computers]]), one of the many things Bethesda ignored about the series for (in their view) RuleOfCool.

* In ''{{Fallout 3}}'' The [=PipBoy 3000=] is worn on the player's wrist. In the first two games the device was bulky and weighed many pounds as a result being vacuum tube based ([[{{Zeerust}} like all the setting's computers]]), one of the many things Bethesda ignored about the series for (in their view) RuleOfCool.
* CommanderKeen's [[http://www.shikadi.net/keenwiki/ComputerWrist ComputerWrist]]

* Several {{Magical Girl}}s wear their TransformationTrinket on their wrist: Anime/CorrectorYui, MagicalStarMagicalEmi, YesPrecure5, {{Kampfer}}, later seasons of ''OjamajoDoremi'', and the FrillyUpgrade powerup in ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch''.

** This is given a nod in the video game of ''[[VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 GoldenEye]]'', in which the watch is both used in game as a gadget and is the pause menu/user interface/mission briefing.

* Stock feature of many SuperSentai incarnations, usually the TransformationTrinket with added functions.

* A lot of ''PowerRangers'' morphers.

* ''YuGiOh'' Duel Discs.

* ''ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' (AKA ''{{Battle of the Planets}}''). G-Force had wrist band communications devices which also allowed them to [[InstantCostumeChange change between their team uniforms and civilian clothing]].

* ''ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' (AKA ''{{Battle of the Planets}}''). G-Force had wrist band communications devices which also allowed them to change between their team uniforms and civilian clothing.

* ''ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' (AKA ''{{Battle of the Planets}}''). G-Force had wrist band communications devices which also allowed them to [[TransformationTrinket change between their team uniforms and civilian clothing]].

* Several {{Magical Girl}}s wear their TransformationTrinket on their wrist: Anime/CorrectorYui, MagicalStarMagicalEmi, YesPrecure5, {{Kampfer}}, later seasons of OjamajoDoremi, and the FrillyUpgrade powerup in MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch.

* Several {{Magical Girl}}s wear their TransformationTrinket on their wrist: Anime/CorrectorYui, MagicalStarMagicalEmi, YesPrecure5, {{Kampfer}}, later seasons of OjamajoDoremi, and the FrillsOfJustice powerup in MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch.

** ''GoseiSentaiDairanger'' and ''PowerRangersZeo''/''ChorikiSentaiOhranger'' use two-part changers with one component on each wrist. (The Dairanger changer was later incorporated into ''PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' as the [[SixthRanger Magna Defender]]'s morpher.)

** This is given a nod in the video game of ''Game/GoldenEye'', in which the watch is both used in game as a gadget and is the pause menu/user interface/mission briefing.

* {{Steampunk}}s seem to have a fascination for cool wrist-mounted gadgets, from guns to chronometers to computers.

* {{Steampunks}} seem to have a fascination for cool wrist-mounted gadgets, from guns to chronometers to computers.

* Both of the WesternAnimation/SWATKats wear the Glovatrix, a wrist-mounted tool featuring multiple weapons and tools.

* Both of the WesternAnimation/SWATKats wear the Glovatrix, a wrist-mounted tool feturing multiple weapons and tools.

* {{Ben 10}}'s Omnitrix.
* Parodied in ''{{Futurama}}'': Leela has one, and she calls it "this thing on [her] wrist" which also has a built-in surgical laser for reattaching noses.

* The titular hero of ''{{Phantom 2040}}'' has a pair.