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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."
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I wonder how much does companies like Nokia, Rolex or BMW pays to be the official modified gadget for Spy Agents. Must be a great money to sell, in a single movie, and being a great shuttle for the new models/equipments.
CCV.
"In that sense, the problem facing Bond filmmakers is similar to the problem faced by software companies, cell phone carriers, and other high-tech firms, who seem to only offer barely noticeable incremental improvements to technologies their consumers already have, rather than radical new products. In this sense, art is imitating life -- or at least the Nasdaq." At This point, And it's been said here on /. many times.. What is left for the younger generations to invent.. it seems that the more the tech sector grows..the less the "real" or "radical" inventions come to be a reality.. or it could just be me...
Just Limin' Mon
You can actually buy real see-through glasses. Bit pricey though.
If you look at the sample pics, they're all of little girls - it's a peado-targeted product.
Where was the bomb detonated? At ground level? I would expect a lot of things to keep working in that case.
EMP pulses are generated by high altitude bursts that send a shitload of charged particles into the ionosphere. That gob of electrons in the upper atmosphere is what generates the EMP pulse.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
I don't mind the gadgets getting a bit out of hand, but the crash/fx stuff is getting ridiculous.
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They need to have a little more of Bond using his wits and physical skills to survive a situation, not some gadget and car.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service and For Your Eyes Only stand out in my mind as some good examples - as does much of The Living Daylights.
Yeah...the stories are a bit over the top - so what...that's the idea...an over the top agent for an over the top situation...but give us at least some espionage, etc...
Hell...even A View To A Kill had a) bond undercover, b) surviving by sucking the air out of the tire on the Rolls, c) making a getaway on a fire truck (this I would call part of the using his wits).
Now adays he'd walk into the horse stables shouting "I'm James Bond...try to stop me...I work for MI6", have a minisub in the trunk of the rolls, and make a getaway in a Harrier while blowing up 30 cars.
BTW - can't wait for Die Another Day to open
Just 2 points:
1 - I'm happy to see marketing departments that are actually trying to entertain me. Seems for a long time they were simply bent on insulting me... like that ad where the company tries to fix all it's web problems with a song. I can imagine an Ericsson ad where some soccer mom is desperately searching for her lost child (The Beatles "Help" plays in the background) when AHA, she remembers her little munchkin carries a CELL PHONE!
I'll take Bond over that any day.
2 - If the movie does entertain me, I don't care how many product placements are in it. As long as their irrelevant to the enjoyment of the movie. Silly example comes to mind... Superman II wouldn't have been any better or worse had Superman crashed into a Cola sign instead of a Coke sign.
Operator, give me the number for 911!
So, you're saying that Lamborghini is not (always) an Italian car, it (at times) has been a French car, an American car (Chrysler!), an Indonesian car, and a Malaysian car. Most recently, Lamborghinis are German (Audi).
Well, in fact Bond was never meant to be a spy. He was a secret agent, which is a completely different profession, licence to kill et al.
In fact Bond only performed proper espionage on one occasion, where he had to obtain a file (can't for the life of me remember which one).
Out of all the bond gadgets I prefer the Lotus' alarm system. There is a sticker on the window that says "this vehicle is protected by a security system." This cannonfodder in an arab getup, just laughs and procedes to break the window with the butt of his gun. The car promptly explodes. Q is angry reprimands Bond, and reassembles the car.
The egg, in theory, should work. Since the radiator fluid is quite hot it will immediately hard boil the egg. Since there is pressure in the radiator it will push the egg "chunks" to the cracks/holes therein filling them in. There are 2 problems with this, however, one being once the holes are plugged the pressure will increase to ~15psi which is probably enough to blow the egg chunks out through the holes (anyone make the mistake of pulling a radiator cap off a hot engine?)... The second problem is that of the heater core. If the heater was on it would be instantly rendered useless. In all actuality, if you tried this "at home" you'd probably completely plug the radiator and the heater core and possibly the coolant ducts within the engine. Causing an even greater problem of over heating the engine. In otherwords "don't try this at home" unless you're rich and have nothing better to do...
But who really cares how unrealistic the gadgets are? It's a movie for $DEITY's sake. I like watching movies with wierd little technogadgets, Bond & XXX had both, even if XXX was a major disappointment.