Primal widget: the most powerful piece of technology almost everybody carries almost all the time in a given milieu Backwards from today: smartphone wristwatch umbrella kerchief/towel pen hat or turban knife sword bag/basket walkey-pokey stick Am I missing any?
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Keys are a big one I missed. Tobacco type things (also hip flasks, chewing gum), hmm... mood-altering tech. Kinda borderline, but I think they qualify. Photos of people... I think out. They’re not tech. Same as crucifixes or charms, just personal.
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Hmm. Belts are an interesting case. In the form of a sash or cummerbund, they’re just a variant on the towel theme, but the leather buckled kind perhaps qualifies. Kinda unit asked though, unless you make it a platform by adding apps like holsters, scabbards, etc.
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Hmm. Money as ultimate social tech multitool
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Water containers? I guess leather waterskins yes, and perhaps modern bottles, but not pots. That’s cargotech, not primal widget-tech.
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Hmm. Illumination tech: torches, candles, lanterns, flashlights. A bit too specialized for my taste, but they’re now in primal widget land as part of the phone and sometimes keychains
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Left out firearms because they were/are everyday carry only in very specific times/places unlike bladed weapons which were much more common. Also, the American tacticool mall ninja EDC culture built around firearms annoys me as poisoning a generally fun aspect of human life
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Combs and small mirrors were once common but I think they were not very universal, and rarely the most versatile tech on someone. More vanity tech.
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Maybe the shoes as widget question turns very much on the importance of "outdoors/indoors" as a legit line for using or setting aside?
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It is absolutely wrong that jewelry serve(d) no practical purposes: for millennia it was the most effect way of carrying value in a barter economy, and also signifying your social worth, i.e. don't mess with me. It literally had magical powers over people (okay quasi magical)
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