One might think it has limited utility since its simply a small worn device with idiot lights. You just got to love idiot lights . My first car had them and you didn't know a problem was developing until the light went off. At any rate back when my brother and I were working on a new invention for modifying military gas mask he, being in the army, said some phrase about if equipment had moving parts a grunt would find away to brake it. There was more to the phrase that I don't remember but it clued me into the fact that designs for military use need to follow the KISS rule and the designer needs to try to anticipate all the ways the grunt in the field might screw up the equipment. As I was considering the equipment list for this project it occurred to me that the toxy-rad gauge was designed for the military with this mind set. It has no moving parts and is simplicity in design and use. That said I propose that it was first developed for Ground Fleet troops during SW1 operating on planets the sathar nuked. Geiger counters existed but no one had really miniaturized them and the call went out for simple equipment easily carried and difficult to break. Thus the toxy-rad gauge. Extra functionality was built in because of fears of chemical agents could be used by the sathar.
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