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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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Does anyone know who has replaced Q? Can this actor actually play the part well?
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No, no, no, no, its:
1. Steal Underpants
2. ????
3. Profit!
Depending on the range with which the control pad works, it could be immensely useful. You could drive up to the front of a restaurant and then find a park space from the comfort of your table(what would be more suave than permanent valet?) How about using it to drive the car into places unfit for humans, like Chernobyl or New Jersey? With the structural changes that were made to the vehicle, you could use it as a battering ram without worrying about whiplash. There's plenty of uses for a remote controlled car, the movie just failed to show them. However, I will admit that there is one flub that has always bothered me. After all of the situations where these gadgets have saved Bond's life, how come he isn't carrying it again in the next film? I recognize that the inflatable ski jacket was a one trick pony, but there's been plenty of times he could have used the wristwatch garrote, x-ray camera with built in laser, or plastique toothpaste, but Q just decided to deprive him of these useful tools.
I liked how he could put himself into a trance and then a little arm would come out his watch to wake him.
Today's vices may be tomorrow's virtues.