The Top Seven Fallout 3 Gadgets To See Next

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Earlier this week, we found out that General Dynamics had created a wrist-mounted GPS with radio and a host of other options that many gadget blogs (especially us!) were calling the Pip-Boy, realized. And with the appearance of the Pip-Boy, and the steadily oncoming release of Fallout: New Vegas, I began to realize that there were plenty of things from the Fallout universe that I longed to see in my very own home, driveway or closet. Thus, here’s a list of the top seven things I want General Dynamics working on next.

7.Vertibird

A tiny VERTOL craft with room for roughly six people that’s still small enough to fit in roughly two conventional parking spaces? That’s a fantastic mode of travel, and if it runs on those same tiny-nuclear engines that the junked cars scattered around the Capitol Wasteland run on, well, even better!

6. Nuka Cola Quantum

It may well be the most mundane item to come out of the Fallout series, but it’s an interesting one, too. Not only is it a sparkling tower of fruit-flavored effervescence, it’s also very slightly radioactive. How very slightly? As we find out, it has the interesting side effect of making your urine glow. So now, when you stagger to the bathroom in the middle of the night, you no longer need to turn on a light–just angle the glowing stream right where you want it. And all things considered, that’s entirely too useful to not be worth considering.

5. Ripper

I don’t know how many of you out there have ever used a chainsaw, but they’re big, unwieldy, and surprisingly heavy. In fact, if you’re not wearing specialized chaps made out of ballistic materials, there’s a fair chance you’ll cut your leg off while you’re trying to cut branches off trunk wood. But the Ripper is the kind of thing that’ll make yard work a downright snap. Basically, a Ripper is a chainsaw-knife designed for one handed use. It’s short, it’s lightweight, and it’s much easier to use than your standard full-sized chainsaw without sacrificing any of the chainsaw’s power. Sure, in Fallout 3 you’re using these things to cut open your enemies, but in reality, they’d make hedge clippers obsolete, take care of most any sized brush and even make felling trees a snap.

4. Power Fist

Ah, the Power Fist. Nothing like giving your punches the weight of hydraulically-assisted steel. But there’s more to this thing than just bludgeoning intruders and effortlessly blocking their knives and bullets with your fists of metal. But consider the myriad of uses for such a device: crushing cans, compacting trash, fending off aggressive dogs, even stuff like digging holes in the backyard is rendered almost painfully simple by virtue of steel and hydraulics.

3. Mr. Handy

Granted, these aren’t great when it comes to fine motor control. You certainly don’t want this thing anywhere near your pastry, as it showed with one disastrous outing trying to cut a cake with that circular saw. And you don’t want it near your breakables, either. But when it comes to the big stuff, like telling jokes and cutting your hair and getting you cold drinks, nothing tops the tireless hovering robots known collectively as the Mr. Handy line.

2. Plasma Pistol

While most people would likely have a laser rifle, I’m not one of them. Sure, it’s fun to turn whatever you’re shooting at into a big pile of ash, but I’d sooner have the capability to turn them into piles of green goo. That and being able to shoot, at will, what looks like a photon torpedo from a faux-retro-futuristic ray gun is entirely too entertaining for words.

1. Liberty Prime

Sure, everyone wants their own robot butler. Everyone wants a robot to bring them things and clean up and suchlike. But as awesome as that is, Liberty Prime takes the concept to heights that can only be described as dizzyingly horrifying. Originally designed as heavy fire support for the Battle of Anchorage, it’s a forty foot tall robot with a variety of energy weapons that hates Chinese communism, and its practitioners, with equal fervor. About the only analogy that fits Liberty Prime is that it’s a forty foot tall mechanical Stephen Colbert (and it might well have been a crowning moment of awesome if Liberty Prime looked like Colbert) with lots and lots of energy weapons. And that is one of those things that wavers between awesome and scary like cattails in the breeze.

And there you have it, a whole slew of gadgets that would make great appearances alongside the Pip-Boy. Hey General Dynamics–get to it, huh?

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