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Fact and Fiction Behind Bond's Gadgets

Posted by michael on from the movie-promotion-entirely-coincidental dept.

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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  1. Art Imitating Life by pennsol · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "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...

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    Just Limin' Mon

  2. Re:Screw James Bonde's Gadgets by PD · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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    If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
  3. A little more story wouldn't hurt by Sabalon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't mind the gadgets getting a bit out of hand, but the crash/fx stuff is getting ridiculous.

    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 :)