Geiger ☢ The world ended. The show didn't.

Most video players try to disappear. Geiger does the opposite: it turns the Video.js v10 player into a survivor's wrist terminal, a green-phosphor CRT in a rusted gunmetal housing, inspired by the Pip-Boy from Fallout. And the device isn't decoration. Every part of it is a working control.

📟 It boots. The poster greets you with "Welcome back, Survivor." Press play and the tube powers on from a single bright line, runs a self-check, and hands over to the picture with a little power-up chirp.

🎛 Real knobs. The VOLUME knob turns through 270°, from silent to full. The TUNING knob is an endless dial that winds the tape 5 seconds per click. Drag them, scroll over them, or focus them and use the arrow keys. To screen readers they're proper sliders.

🟧 The amber side plate. PLAY, AUDIO, CAPTIONS, SETTINGS, EJECT (picture-in-picture) and SCREEN (fullscreen) are the device's main keys, with a lit marker beside whichever is on.

📼 Holotapes are chapters. Pause and the chapters appear as a holotape list of real buttons. Pick one to wind there and play. The header always names the chapter you're in, and PREV / NEXT skip between them.

📈 Vitals you can use. VOL is the volume slider. SPD steps the speed. SIG shows how much tape is buffered ahead. A heartbeat runs while the tape plays: it races at 2×, slows at 0.5× and flatlines on pause. The rad gauge reads the volume.

💬 It talks back. "Sit back. The world can wait." At 1.5× it asks "In a hurry, Survivor?". Outrun the buffer and it reads SEARCHING with a radar sweep, seeking crackles like a Geiger counter, and the end of the tape reads "Signal lost".

Made for everyone: every control works from the keyboard in visual order, with an amber focus ring. Panels are dark and near-opaque so the glow stays readable. On small players the grip and side column fold away and the panel's own buttons take over, down to 340px phones. Reduced motion skips the boot, heartbeat and needle tremble. Sounds are quiet, and silent when muted. Forced-colours mode falls back to system colours.

It streams from Mux. The demo plays "Selected Works", a film of the Framer templates I designed, with a chapter for each one, so the skin is shown doing a real job.

Built with the Video.js skin CLI as HTML + CSS, plus small custom elements that read the player store (knobs, meters, status, chapters, sounds). All artwork and code are original. It's a fan tribute, not affiliated with Bethesda. Open source under Apache-2.0.

It's also live on my real site: my Framer portfolio opens with the film playing in Geiger, and I rethemed the whole site to match the device (green-phosphor colours, condensed uppercase headings and a terminal monospace for labels), so the player and the page feel like one product.

▶ Live: https://geiger-one.vercel.app 🌐 In use: https://adorable-champion-547725.framer.app ⌨ Code: https://github.com/Admin-Simboz/geiger-videojs-skin

The heartbeat is my favorite detail: it races at 2×, slows at 0.5× and flatlines on pause, so you feel the speed. And the knobs are real sliders for screen readers, which is great to see.

Memora 🧡