Bethesda’s $300 Pip-Boy 3000 replica can measure (harmless) radiation

The replica is present disposable for preorder and expected to vessel arsenic soon arsenic June 2026. | Image: Bethesda

Bethesda is present selling a highly-detailed wearable replica of the Pip-Boy 3000 from Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. It was designed utilizing the 3D models of the accessory successful the games to marque it arsenic close arsenic possible, and is disposable for preorder present for $299.99, with shipping expected to commencement arsenic aboriginal arsenic June 2026. Sadly, it won’t get successful clip for the season two premiere of Amazon’s Fallout bid that starts connected December 17th, 2025. 

It’s not the archetypal clip Bethesda has offered a replica of the chunky wrist-worn computer, but an earlier version, bundled with a collector’s variation of Fallout 4, relied connected a smartphone and an app to replicate its in-game functionality. Created successful collaboration with The Wand Company — which  has a coagulated way grounds for creating elaborate and mostly functional replicas similar Poké Balls and Star Trek Communicators — the caller Pip-Boy 3000 has its ain 4-inch LCD display.

The Pip-Boy 3000’s surface tin beryllium toggled betwixt the classical greenish UI seen successful Fallout 3 oregon the yellowish interface utilized successful New Vegas. Bethesda says “almost each of the in-game content” accessible successful some titles has been replicated including hundreds of menus that tin beryllium navigated with scroll wheels and dials, and you’ll adjacent find a playable mentation of the Atomic Command minigame. The surface simulates the quality of a vintage cathode-ray conduit show with glitches and flickering effects that tin beryllium temporarily fixed by hitting the device, acknowledgment to an accelerometer.

The replica’s beforehand casing is made from die-cast metallic portion the assemblage is injection-moulded integrative with a representation foam cuff that tin beryllium enlarged utilizing an included spacer. Other functionality includes a flashlight, a headphone jack, an alarm timepiece mode that tin beryllium utilized alongside an included show stand, and a functional radiation detector. However, alternatively of measuring the unsafe fallout from a atomic blast, the replica Pip-Boy 3000 measures the radiation of FM vigor broadcasts utilizing on-screen meters and the simulated sounds of a geiger counter.