All tech is wearable tech if you have enough duct tape.
🤔️ This would be a really interesting game mechanic, especially if it was not revealed to the player and was left to be discovered by out of box thinkers.
@hellomiakoda Like... A nuclear reactor, Fallout power armor style?
@ScriptFanix That's a lot of duct tape, but yes
@hellomiakoda @ScriptFanix actually at that point I think the reactor wears you.
@mweiss @hellomiakoda @ScriptFanix I thought of the same lines but more in a vein of: In Soviet Russia Reactor Wears You 😅
@ScriptFanix @hellomiakoda Nobody said anything about being able to move.
@Natanox @ScriptFanix Shoulda put more points in strength if you wanted to wear that.
@hellomiakoda true. many of our childhood fantasies can attest to this. (they were about, essentially, having laptops before they existed)
@hellomiakoda I am reminded of the World’s First Atomic Clock Wristwatch :) http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/
First Atomic Clock Wristwatch

@hellomiakoda and a long enough extension lead!
@hellomiakoda Particularly if you are ambiguous about which direction the wearing is happening.
First Atomic Clock Wristwatch

@karotte @hellomiakoda

Argh! I was just thinking of the couple of Efratom Rb aircraft reference units I have, which are quite small and light (though power hungry). But I've already been outclassed: I didn't think you could get a Cs standard in something (19" 4U) that small!

@hellomiakoda The Cray X-MP was conveniently designed as a circle for this purpose.
@hellomiakoda and a strong enough spinal column
Wearable Large Hadron Collider
@hellomiakoda Does "wear" imply you're able to move around with the thing? Do I wear my car? My house? (In the latter case, last Wednesday I decided to wear a 100MW power station). Questions, questions...
@cm Your car moves, so technically that is wear, especially since you buckle it on to you. It's like a gundam suit, but weak and armed. Your house doesn't. Your house is where society stores you when it's not using you. It's your storage and maintenance cubby.
@hellomiakoda @cm shares flat and bicycle version: A shared flat is a temporary nest where you split costs and avoid being alone. It’s not truly a home, but a “social maintenance pod” where society stores you until you get your own “unit.” A bike, meanwhile, is like an unarmored exoskeleton—a minimalist extension of your legs. It gives you movement but wears down as you pedal, witnessing your effort, freedom, and battles against gravity and traffic.
@hellomiakoda At some point you become the wearable for the tech

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Alternative / Addition: Pockets + Straps

And I would draw the line at about 15kg, after that I'd like to add some sort of wheels to that tech.

First Atomic Clock Wristwatch

@hellomiakoda dammit someone has already posted it lmao
@hellomiakoda gonna wear my desktop PC like a backpack

@hellomiakoda yes and it depends on the technology’s size who wears whom.

Related: If I put on a seatbelt, do I wear the car or does it wear me?

@hellomiakoda My sister worked in a call center 20 years ago, where a client asked if the desktop was portable. Their standard answer was: "yes it's transportable".
@hellomiakoda instructions absolutely clear, now I have a CRT television on my head