• I second the call for the Wristlojackimator, but I DO have to agree with the Omnitrix being so high on the list. Other than Alien Force kinda, yannow, sucking, Ben 10's pretty awesome. I certainly wouldn't mind being able to go XLR8 or Cannonbolt when I needed to travel somewhere!

• ...Really? No wristlojackimator?

• Oh HELL yes! Dead man can hitch a ride on a passing spacecraft after using it to cut through diamond. Definitely top-5-worthy.

• I wanted to have the Penny's wristwatch and the Wonder Woman's bracelets when I was a child, so, those are my favorite.

• Two words... Sonic Screwdriver "Doesn't kill, doesn't wound, doesn't maim. But I'll tell you what it does do: it's very good at opening doors."

• You know I've been watching lexx on July and I don't know what anyone's feelings on that show are but Kai's wrist Bracer assassin killing thing is pretty cool.

• The web fluid is ONLY useful for spidey as it disolves after an hour. the shooters are also not THAT amazing. As for Pete keeping a job............every problem he has had holding a job is a direct result of being Spidey.

• no hidden blade from Assassin's Creed?

• The power ranger communicater was designed and made by, punk and surf legend, prop master Mark Richardson. They also made a Mc Donalds toy based on it during the 90's.

• Electrawoman and Dynagirl's...whatever the hell those things were. They could fire a beam of chromakey and break a brandy glass from, like, across the room! Can Spider-Man do that? hell no! He'd have to web it up and yank and hope that gravity would do the work for him. Lazy sod. Also, they were modular, so the disoriented alcoholic who lived in their garage was always making more things to stick on them. Yet they never got any heavier or bulkier. Or less so. Electra-wow!

• "Glitch, B. F.G" The episode where its Enzo's birthday and even Megabyte shows up to Jam out like OZZY or Alice Cooper and Bob turns Glitch into a Virtual Fender. That Glitch could do anything. I was hoping it was number two, behind Leela's Wrist thingy

• Well, one of the first things Spider-man did as Spider-man was break into the Fantastic Four headquarters and punch Mr. Fantastic. The intent was to prove that he's capable and should be hired on to the team. He was stopped by the Torch and informed that this wasn't a for-profit-super-hero operation. I could certainly see where something like that might make it a little difficult to land that job in R and D. Besides, he's supposed to be bungling, socially awkward, and poor. He was essentially created by Stan Lee to prove a point to his boss. That point was that I can create a sympathetic hero, with a crappy life, that people will still buy and love. Also, he won't even have a cape! Completely absurd at the time.

• He actually worked for Tony Stark (Iron Man, if you're oblivious,) fore a while, until the middle of the Marvel Civil War. Afterward Peter was no longer friends with Tony, Tony lost his company, and therefor left ol' Spidey to fend for himself as a photographer again.

• I was just getting to G-Force...'kin Power Rangers can bite my shiny metal ass.

• Steel Nipple is my favorite rock group.

• I would've included the Omni, which Phineas Bogg used for time-traveling on the show Voyagers! Anyone remember that one?

• Damn it! I swear I had just thought of that one moments before I read your comment. "Fighting Crime in a Future Time"

• May as well throw in my "this should have been on the list" item. The Mega Buster from Mega Man: an armored glove/gauntlet that turns into an arm cannon which can charge up and fire compressed bullets of solar energy AND mimic the powers of fallen enemies.

• That was an entire arm, though... not sure if that counts as an "accessory," much less a wrist accessory.

• Then he has made a powerful enemy.

• I know someone probably said this already, but how did Dick Tracy's watch not make this list?

• But... But Space Ghost's Power Bands! With the ability to do anything the plot needed plus blow up Zorak on a regular basis!

• how can you not include the master bracers from transformers:headmasters?...i actually own a pair...::ashamed::

• Rob hates Reboot and even though he didn't write the article I'm sure he had to approve the list first.

• Pipboy is mighty handy. (or wristy? hurdur)

• Raimi said that he made web-shooting part of Spiderman's actual powers because it would be too unrealistic for a highschool/college kid to come up with a substance that 3M can't make.

• I'd like to add Space Ghost's power bands

• Old School - Johnny Socko's wristwatch voice controller for Giant Robot - GIANT ROBOT FINGER MISSLES!!!

• What about the wrist-gun james bond used in moonraker, the back-of-the-hand communicators used in babylon 5, and the real-life data bank watch that held phone numbers, could control your TV and could be linked to a 24 hours news link?

• Copypasta more? You didn't misspell Dick enough times.

• For the record, Dick Tracy should totally be on this list. Yes, the original may seem out dated, but c'mon, by the 1960s it could do everything the LG wrist-phone-whatever could do. We're talking radio, video, all that jazz.

• Spidey did try selling the web fluid and the shooters for cash once, but no one was interested in an adhesive that lasted for only one hour. And what good are the shooters without webbing?

• One time when Aunt May needed some medicine that he didn't have the money for, Peter actually tried to sell the formula for web-fluid as a miracle polymer. While the buyers were impressed by all of the other aspects, they told him that since it dissolves in an hour it's practically worthless. It was early on I think...somewhere in the first 100 or so issues. Marvel Essentials FTW

• I concur

• Seriously old school - The Lens of Arisia.

• I must admit that when i first saw the list, my number-one thought was the 'transmute' wrist-dealies from Gatchaman / G-Force.

• What? A list of nerdy wrist accessoriesand you leave out Ezio'stwin hidden wrist blades from Assassin's Creed? I would muchrather have that than the Knight Rider wristwatch or the stupid Yu-Gi-Oh card holder which if I may say is completely useless unless you're playing Yu-Gu-Oh. Come on!

• Myself also.

• WEB-SWIIIIIIIIIIIIING!

• Pipboy 3000 from Fallout 3?

• I was just thinking about that one before i read your post.

• I don't know the age of this list's author, but I think the main reason behind all these complaints may be the generation gap. Nearly half the entries on this list are all but unrecognizable to anyone who grew up in the 80s. Not to mention all the obvious candidates overlooked possibly because of their rather archaic nature.

• seriously?! BIG O... SHOWTIME!!!

• GREAT FUCKING SHOW! KAI ROCKS!

• Amen, Brother (or Sister, as the case may be).

• AAAHH!! How did I forget the mighty Power Bands!?!

• My first thought was they better have Leela's wrist computer(especially given the episode where all the mechanical devices rebel and it splits on her, telling her to wash her arm as it leaves. Comedy gold). BTW, Is there any way the tags could be listed AFTER the jump on these lists, they kinda give away who won before we've even started the article.

• I always loved agent Jim West's(The Wild,Wild West TV series)wrist doohickey that would rapidly extend forward a metal arm hidden under his sleeve & it had a derringer on the end of it.

• Stupid, meaningless list without the Dick Tracy watch. I didn't even read the whole thing.

• Exactly, Hachiko. Damn kids these days...

• What, no Iron Man wrist mounted missle launcher?

• a tie : the wrist rocket launcher invented by Destro, perfected by B-Ko. (and I mean perfected..she addes 10,000 rps fire rate, heat seaking, tactical nuclear warhead and ALLMOST infinite ammo. Yes, they amde a big deal of her reloading ONCE after firing more then 10 million rounds)

• Because Reed Richards is a blundering dick. Would you want to work with a guy who willingly subjected his wife, brother in law and close friend to cosmic rays which turned them all into freaks?

• How could anyone miss something that comes with a 'spank ray'?

• POWER BANDS, not bracelets. Bracelets are for Jan and Jace.

• Right there with you!

• Maybe this is because Peter Parker is actually autistic. This would explain his scientific brilliance (and brilliance at being Spider-Man), but his lack of smarts at being able to hold down a job. Why can't Peter get a job as a researcher or inventor, working with Reed Richards? I would think Reed would more than understand Peter's missing work to save the city/ world/ galaxy. Instead, the comic book writers have Peter work as a lowly photographer who keeps losing his job and whines about money problems. Okay, sure, this is probably done to keep the character "relate-able", but at what point do we get tired of his whining? Sorry to get off-topic.

• No one for Long-Arm's grappling cuff shooter? Nobody remember the COPS cartoon?

• Black Widow's gauntlets?

• What about the Dynamen? They have gadget watches!

• thanks for describing what's going on for us cap. obvious. oh and i'm glad you could explain to me what 8+2 is. TEN, YOU SAY!?!?!? wow! dumb.

• *Angel

• Would have liked to see either Wesley's Wrist sword thing or Angle's Stake contraption (from the Angle and Buffy series). I mean, hey, if your gonna take crap for giving Joss a BJ, Might as well go all the way down! ;)

• Good list, but what about the bracelet/arm that Bionic Commando had on NES... it was a weapon, a grappling hook, and you used it to swing back n forth... pretty resourceful.... just saying!

• Wonder Woman sooooo runs like a girl.

• Yes- the Venture Brothers! Good catch. Also Space Ghost- 3 buttons= infinite beam types.

• How's this for obscure: What about Kai's gauntlet from Lexx? It could kill people, grapple, change direction in mid-air, had no reach limit... better than a watch you use to talk to your mumbling dog, imo.

• How can anyone not know what Spidey's powers are? Do they teach kids nothing in school these days? I thought everyone knew about his Spidey sense and wall crawling at the least.

• Yeah I'm totally missing the Bond Watch in this one. Even the villain in Goldeneye geeked out when he saw Bond's..."Ah! A new model!"

• Dick Tracy may not be relevant to a lot of youngster now, but he deserves respect on seniority alone. There was a list here awhiles back, it was "Top Nerd(or Sci-Fi) Guns", or a similar title, and Buck Rogers' Blaster Ray was #1. Ol' Buck hasn't been very relevant in years either, but he set the precedent.

• All I know is when I saw this list, I envisioned Ben 10, Power rangers wrist communicator, and Spider-Man's web shooers. All the ones I wanted made the list. And I don't think its a big deal that Dick Tracy's watch was left off the list. He isn't very relevant anymore. The Warren Beatty Dick Tracy movie came out in like 1990. Most people my age haven't even seen that movie and a good portion of them might not even know who he is or that he even has a wrist communicator.

• I know he's a Green Lantern rip-off, but Quasar should be on this list. As for Dick Tracy, I don't think Dick Tracy would count for a "nerd" property, which may be why he wasn't listed. His watch also didn't do as much as the others. Wonder Woman's bracelets create a force field when they are put together. So you don't need blazing speed. You can make an arguement that it should be higher, since indestructable force field trumps talking to a car.

• I know everybody else has probably said it, but Leela's thing she wears on her wrist (officially called a wrist lojackamator, I think) deserved a place. It does everything from dispensing tissues to Tetris.

• Seriously, I was expecting this to be number one! Too many good suggestions in the comments; I demand a "people's choice" list.

• I grew up with it as Battle of the Planets, like most here. After marrying a wonderful Japanese lass, I got into it as Gatchamann. Either way, the list is woefully short, with glaring omissions, not just obscure ones. And the sad thing is, the list came in lean to begin with at 8 entries. I know Rob doesn't write most of them, he only edits. But this was bad.

• Like everyone else said, INCLUDE LEELA'S WRIST DEVICE. IT HAS TETRIS ON IT. Also, the Venture Bros. communicator watch.

• Agreed Dick Tracy and Boba Fett should be high on the list. You missed two of my favorites- Kai, the walking dead assassin from "Lexx" and his "Brace"- a razor sharp insect mandible mounted on his wrist which could be launched like a boomerang or fired with a line like a grappling hook. Deadly, convenient, and cool. From "Earth: Final Conflict"- the Skrill, "a squidlike symbiotic creature which when attached to its host (around a person's arm) would merge with their nervous system and could generate lethal blasts of energy on command. Unfortunately, CVI implants limit recipients life span to only two years but during that time, the wearer can vividly recall past experiences tenfold including such sensations as smell and touch." I also like the transmuter watches from Battle of the Planets (no, I don't mean "Gatchaman"). Traaaaans...MUTE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU0_5-c4cdc#t=3m27s

• Thirded!

• Okay, @modee beat me to it - Space Ghost should have been on this list. I spent many of my formative years running around slapping my forearms trying to blow up bullies.

• Technically, the force field was generated by his belt. But I agree, the bracelets were awesome.

• I would have wondered why this list included the Power Rangers' plastic Rolexes instead of the G-Force's transmutation watches... if there had not been a Yu-Gi-Oh reference just before that. You made me feel old once again. Damn you, Topless Robot lists. Damn you all to hell!

• Exactly what i was thinking..... Bond's watches were some of the coolest gadgets ever made.... That watch for unzipping ladies dresses was awesome!!!!

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• No, not at all. Especially with Batman being right atop Penny in the list. BARF!

• Wow. I had forgotten how totally horrible Wonder Woman (as a TV show) was. Did you know that you can avoid gunfire by simply lying down on the pavement in clear view of the shooter? And damn, I love Lynda Carter, but she absolutely "runs like a girl"... yikes...

• "Parker is smart enough to design and build a webshooter while in highschool, but can't hold down a job taking pictures?" He can't hold down a job BECAUSE HE'S SPIDER-MAN ON THE SIDE. Also, it's always been implied that Pete's pretty dumb when it comes to business. Or, as some writer once had him think "... if only I was smarter, I would have been known as the man who invented the Post-it note."

• Am I the only one who flinched at the sight of Penny after reading last week's FFF? Sigh. I need therapy for this, I swear.

• I was wondering where G-Force's Transmutation devices were too?!?!?!?!?! Easily a number 1 or 2 omission.

• So, let me get this straight, Yu-Gi-Oh is represented, but not Johnny Socko. And wait a minute, has no one ever heard of Gatchamann/Battle of the Planets/G-Force? No? The watches they used to 'transmute' into their superhero costumes? EPIC FUCKING FAIL! Suck it, Yu-Gi-Oh.

• Yes, Dick Tracy's wristwatch should be #1 or #2 since none of the rest of the communicator watches would be here without it. Before cell phones and despite Dick Tracy's falling popularity, it was still what we envisioned the future of phones to be like.

• I see no mention of the Bionic-6? Their wrist contraption powered their bionics (which was powered by "the miracle of modern science").

• Can't argue with number 1 or 2, my kids love ben 10 . And it's actually one of the only good cartoons for boys out there

• Um, Boba Fett's wrist mounted missile launcher, grapple wire, and flame thrower? No love?

• Yeah for a blog called Topless Robot to leave out Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8kM_ps5uVo

• the list seems to be getting some flack for Dick tracy wrist watch not being on here. not to mention Lela's wrist gauntlet. but the thing was narrowed down to eight adding those would have made it a top ten. at least spider man's web shooters and the watch from night rider and also inspector gadget made the list. though would have put wonder woman's braclets a little higher on the list top five.

• First, take away Wonder Woman's bracelets. Sure they are bullet proof but they don't bestow the speed and dexterity necessary to use them. Second, no love for Space Ghost? He could shoot all kinds of ray beams and create a force field. How cool is that?

• oooh, good one.

• The ability to climb walls, the proportionate strength of a spider, his vaunted 'spider-sense', preternatural balance and agility.... Oh, and his eyesight got better. Yeah, even though he had to come up with the webs himself, I would say he did all right.

• Spider-Man has the basic enhanced strength, speed, agility, etc., same as so many others. His only spider-specific powers are the ability to stick to walls and his spider sense, which is really just precognition.

• No love for the RobCo Pip-Boy? Disappointing. Que sera sera.

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