In Moonraker, Bond was given a snazzy twenty-odd foot motorboat which featured rear-firing torpedoes, a mine dropper, and a built-in emergency escape hang glider. Q didn't get that one back. Also in Moonraker he used an x-ray safecracker and a miniature spy camera which had an embossed '007' on the front, with the lens in the middle digit. The lovely Doctor Goodhead, in the same film, was carrying a perfume bottle that acted as a nifty flamethrower, a purse which sprouted an aerial and made sideband noises indicating some form of secure radio, and something I can't remember which extruded an icepick blade or needle.
Although Q did get back the Lotus Esprit at the end of The Spy who Loved Me, it blew itself to smithereens in order to avoid being tampered with in the beginning of For Your Eyes Only. Upon seeing another Lotus in Q's lab later on in the movie, Bond remarks "Ah, I see you got the Lotus back together." Q responds with his trademark "It's not funny, 007."
Little Nellie, as aptly described above, is/was an autogyro.
In Live and Let Die, the 'compressed gas bullet' is actually a real anti-shark device. The intention is to kill the shark by suffocating it; the canister can be used on harpoon gun, spear gun or handheld spears. When the spear tip punctures the shark's skin (at least, you hope it does) the gas floods out the front. Shark hide is tough enough that most of it will be trapped beneath the skin, causing the shark to inflate a bit; while this is merely painful for the shark, it will cause it to float to the surface and make it impossible for the shark to swim. Unable to move to get water past its gills, and stranded on the surface, the shark will likely suffocate. Even if it escapes by dislodging the harpoon, it has given the user (diver) enough time to get the hell out of Dodge.
In Never say Never Again, Bond had a fountain pen that would fire its nib, which was an explosive shell.
In the incomparably awful License to Kill, starring the incomparably wrong Timothy Dalton, Bond has what seems to me to be an incomparably pointless gadget - a signature gun, which was a weapon which could only be fired by someone matching Bond's biometric signature. Now, lemme see...I guess the only way this could possibly come in handy is if:
Oh, well, if Q's lab is fair game...
Moonraker: Q had an explosive bolo under test at the same monastery which was testing the small-arms laser.
The World is Not Enough: Bond casually makes off with Q's retirement fishing mini-boat - which has jet thrusters, submerges, and has various weapons. R is forced to demonstrate Bond's inflatable coat/airbag, which turns up later in the film. A variant of this, the flytrap phonebooth (inflatable airbag traps occupant) also made two appearances - one when set off, one later being wheeled off with the unfortunate victim still inside.
One of my favorite non-Bond gadgets is Auric Goldfinger's Rolls-Royce. Although it really is a Rolls-Royce, its bodywork is made of pure gold. w00t. Thank goodness those things have mongo suspensions.
Impressive, but don't forget these:
In From Russia with love the pager was used in combo with a car phone. Well, it was 1963... James also had a gadget that would detect whether your phone line was bugged or not, simply by placing it under the phone. He also has a tape recorder hidden in a camera.
In Goldfinger, a seagull on the water is actually James swimming, with his snorkel hidden by the bird. In this movie he also had two different homing devices, one for placement under a car and one placed in the heel of his shoe. In the Q lab, we can also see a teargas spraying parking meter.
Another homing device was used in Thunderball, in the form of a swallowable (?) pill.
You only live twice introduced a device for opening safes. Just turn the knob and numbers on the device would display the correct code, like magic. James also had a rocket launcher disguised as a cigarette. Would never work today, where smoking is rarely allowed...
In On Her Majesty's Secret Service there was a minature camera, which of course was huge by today's standards.
Diamonds Are Forever had James using an fingerprints imitator, much like the stuff they use on Mission Impossible. He also had a gadget that would change any voice to someone else's voice. I cannot see how that would be abused if it was available to the public... James also had a wire gun, good for scaling buildings.
In Live and let die he had a hairbrush that also was a morse code radio transmitter.
The man with the golden gun was the film where James had a fake third nipple! Very weird indeed.
In The spy who loved me James had a watch that could dispense a message printed on a small paper roll. The introductory skiing scene sees Bond using his ski pole gun.
For your eyes only had that lovely arm cast in Q's lab that would swing away, crushing the face of whoever's to your side. Also, this is where they had that computer for creating phantom images of villains, and then matching them against Interpol's database. In this one, his watch could display message on a small digital display, plus it was a radio. This is used in the end where the parrot is talking to Margaret Thatcher.
In Octopussy James uses his pen to melt metals by dispensing some kind of acid, and thereby escaping from his imprisonment. This time his watch has a small liquid crystal display with which he can follow the villain.
Never say never again had James' watch shooting a laser beam that would cut through anything.
In A view to a kill James searches for microchips with some kind of device that sends out emps. He also had a sophisticated bug detector that would indicate the customary bugging device in James' room. Also, James had sunglasses that would look through one-way mirrors, a handy check replicator, a ring camera] and a credit card lock pick device.
License to kill introduced plastic explosive in toothpaste tube and a laser Polaroid camera.
I'm talking about the gun used by Francisco Scaramanga, title weapon of The Man With The Golden Gun (Beats that fake third nipple hands down). When you're a million dollar a job hitman (It was the fifties, okay? Leave Ian Flemming alone) you get to have a shiny gun made of gold.
That's not the cool part. This gun is one he needs to smuggle into various countries, and so this gun comes in peices, all perfectly innocent items for a businessman or millionaire on holiday to have on his person:
These are all made from gold (Presumably gold casing as the stuff is not exactly good for precision parts). The gun takes one bullet, made from gold and inscribed with the name of the intended target. He only needs one shot.
The gun in action as a gun just involved Christopher Lee or Roger Moore holding a boxy, toylike weapon. There is though a scene where Scaramanga kills his employer, the gangster Hi Fat. Sitting at Hi Fat's desk Scaramanga listens to him walk around the room describing his plan. Scaramanga listens, assembling the gun, and then shoots him, takes it apart, places the items in his pockets and leaves.
Classy.
Comprehensive list here, but here are a few that I think were forgotten, both from Tomorrow Never Dies.
In the opening sequence Bond also uses a gold cigarette lighter which he later primes and throws as a grenade at some explosive barrels.
Bond's wristwatch features a small, postage stamp-sized remote-activated explosive. It is powerful enough to smash the glass jar it was attached to, and inside the jar, of course, was a primed grenade which subsequently exploded. All three (stamp, jar, grenade) were, of course, sitting next to more explosive barrels. The remote control was part of the watch.
Bond's gadgets are not of course limited to the movies. I'm no Bond buff, but in The Man With The Red Tattoo by Raymond Benson, he and some other 00 agents are provided with a selection of newer gadgets to play around with - which, as per usual, Bond ends up using once each during his adventure.
First off is a cigar filled with plastic explosive, the tip of which can be used as a timer and detonator. He also receives a mobile phone with a homing device in it, and a functional Palm Pilot with a self-destruct mechanism and a electromagnetic pulse capability - capable of knocking out electronics such as locks. Lastly a blister pack of three different colours of antacids. Red ones contain a tiny amount of concentrated explosives capable of knocking a door off its hinges; pink ones are smoke bombs; and white ones are, in something of a departure for Q department, real antacid tablets. Other devices Bond uses during the book include a small plastic dagger hidden in his shoe, a lockpick in his heel, and a pair of miniature knives in his shirt collar.
The most impressive, of course is the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish. One of the newest models from the renowned automaker, it comes with all the usual refinements, including motion-sensing antimissile guns, heat-seeking missiles, ejector seats, radar, thermal imaging, and a cloaking device.
Bond sports the usual watch with a built-in laser cutter, as well as a ring capable of shattering glass with a high-frequency sound pulse.
The film is filled with homages to the previous 19, including a scene where Bond visits the Q lab, and sees the aforementioned attaché case, as well as the jet-pack..."This thing still work?"
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