Fact and Fiction Behind Bond's Gadgets

bubblegoose writes "With the new 007 movie coming out soon MSNBC is running a story about some of the fact and fiction behind the Bond gadgets."

Comments

My name is..

[grub]

Troll... James Troll.

Re:Who's replaced Q?

[BlindThePoodle]

Cleese...John Cleese...

YAWN!

[jmoriarty]

That's nice. Someone please wake me for the article on the Fact and Fiction Behind Bond's Women. (Especially the Fiction!)

Quote from the article:

[Indras]

"The world of James Bond is fiction. Bond wouldn't last 4 minutes as a real spy."

Spoken like a true jealous wannabe.

Re:Quote from the article:

[rowanxmas]

"The world of James Bond is fiction. Bond wouldn't last 4 minutes as a real spy."

This is probably true...
Unless our aging Bond is taking his "Q" approved "Viagra" he wouldn't last 30 seconds.

BMW by gamepad

[unfortunateson]

I'm not a huge fan of Brosnan as Bond, but one of the few high notes of his 007 career is the glee on his face while operating the BMW from the rear seat using his phone as a controller. Too bad there's probably too much concrete in that garage to get a decent cell signal. Could be Bluetooth in addition to cell, neh? I don't recommend that as an option in newer cars: I've seen how my kids drive on the PlayStation.

Not in my world

[joebagodonuts]

"The girls, you could argue, are just a distraction in James Bond films."

I don't think he gets it....

[95_gst_al]

"The movies just don't get it," Melton says. "A spy wants the fewest gadgets possible. Because being caught with a gadget is a death warrant. ... There is no real-world counterpart to a car that shoots with machine guns." Real spies carry as little technology as possible, and draw as little attention to themselves as possible -- hardly 007's style. "The world of James Bond is fiction. Bond wouldn't last 4 minutes as a real spy."

Like I want to watch a guy running around with microcamera and a pen copying machine stealing important documents and taking photos for 1.5 hours.

Re:Yes, hogwash....

[bribass]

Isn't that where Harry Potter goes to school?

First two lines of the article....

[M.C. Hampster]

The girls, you could argue, are just a distraction in James Bond films. The gadgets are the real stars, and time and time again, they save Bond's skin.

Obviously written by a Nerd.

As cute as this article is...

[Triv]

it's sister-article is much more interesting. It's on how much product placement is featured in the new bond movie, and how some are worried that the franchise is sliding downhill into 2-hour ads.

This quote cracked me up:

Norelco's senior vice president of marketing Nina Riley won't reveal how the new Spectra shaver is used in the film except to say it's in a "very pivotal scene."

The article's here.

Triv

Waynes World

[Shadow Wrought]

I think my favorite product placement happened in Waynes World when Wayne went through about a handful of products saying their slogans.

"Nuprin- little, yellow, different."

Re:Product Placement

[sczimme]

Convergence with a vengence.

Convengence?

(Yes, I know vengeance was misspelled.)

Re:Dumb Article

[BroFrog]

Bond: What is this... Q: Its a plastic bag... You hide things in it and place it under a bridge! Bond: Wow

Re:What gadget keeps him from getting VD's from

[Jerf]

Comedy Central recently re-ran a Sat. Night Live skit on that theme. "Mr. Bond, you have 127 venereal disease, including 18 we haven't identified yet. We've named them after you: Bond 1, Bond 2, Bond 3, etc." **beep beep beep** "Excuse me Mr. Bond, I have to go. Good god, Bond 17 has broken out of its beaker!"

One of the better such things I've seen, and I'm not generally a Comedy Central fan. I think they actually had Pierce Brosnan on for that show, so it was even one of the real Bonds. ;-)

Re:if i had a care like bond's

[McFly69]

I have a BMW.... and trust me it does not help. Once a nerd, always a nerd.