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Speaker 1: Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with I Heart Radio

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Speaker 1: and love all things tech. And it is time to

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Speaker 1: continue our story about spy technology. We started that in

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Speaker 1: the classic episode last week. This is another classic episode,

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Speaker 1: this one published on January eight, two thousand and fourteen,

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Speaker 1: and we take another look at spy tech, both fictional

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Speaker 1: and realistic. Let's take a listen. So supposedly John D,

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Speaker 1: the sixteenth century science guy Dr John D, may have

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Speaker 1: been the first double O seven to perform espionage in

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Speaker 1: the royal service. He served as an advisor to the

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Speaker 1: Queen and reportedly signed his messages with two zero's symbolizing

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Speaker 1: his job as the Queen's eyes um, followed by a

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Speaker 1: the number seven reportedly having some kind of occult meaning

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Speaker 1: to d Um. So his code name, if you will,

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Speaker 1: was double O seven Yeah, and that you can uh find.

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Speaker 1: And we actually have an article all about James Bond

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Speaker 1: at How Stuff Works. You can learn more about the

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Speaker 1: background and the supposed mythology behind it. By the way,

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Speaker 1: I've got another trivia tidbit about Dr John D. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Did you know that? According to HP Lovecraft, Dr John

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Speaker 1: D was the man responsible for translating the Necronomicon into English,

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Speaker 1: although that translation was never found I did not. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so let's jump into the James Bond series. Now, when

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Speaker 1: we last we left off, we had worked our way

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Speaker 1: up to Moonraker, the nineteen seventy nine film, and yes

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Speaker 1: we are in the middle of Roger Moore's um the

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Speaker 1: best James Bond ever. As I mentioned in the last one,

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Speaker 1: George lazenby close second Roger Moore, Man, you can I

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Speaker 1: could just hear the frustrated squeals of of James Bond

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Speaker 1: fans everywhere placed Timothy Dalton, just just trying not to

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Speaker 1: kill you with their minds. Oh it's fine, it's fine.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah. So Moonraker head, this was the era where

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Speaker 1: the Roger Moore era, where the gadgets really started going crazy. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We keep in mind Lauren and I met before we

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Speaker 1: came in to record this, where we cut a bunch

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Speaker 1: of gadgets because we just for time. There's just too many.

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Speaker 1: And in this particular era alone, I think like sixty

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Speaker 1: of our cuts came from these, right, So starting off,

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Speaker 1: And there are lots of electronic dart guns that have

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Speaker 1: would fire off. And the idea being that it was

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Speaker 1: developed in World War two by the OSS and the

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Speaker 1: being punched, it would scare the heck out of your enemies, like, wow,

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Speaker 1: So risk dart gun not necessarily practical. There's probably other

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Speaker 1: But anyway, this particular wristwatch had a detonator refused and

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Speaker 1: Of course, these days that's totally a thing we have

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Speaker 1: as the detonator, So you would squeeze out the plastic

427
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:50,200
Speaker 1: the plastic and then use the the cigarettes and planted

428
00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:52,560
Speaker 1: in it to be the blasting caps. So I they

429
00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,720
Speaker 1: don't actually say what type of plastic explosives they're using.

430
00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 1: I assume it was something similar to PE four, which

431
00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:01,840
Speaker 1: is what the Brits use. In the US, we use

432
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,440
Speaker 1: something very similar called C four. I say we, I

433
00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 1: just mean the the entities that have access to these

434
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:12,560
Speaker 1: things personally, I don't use either. They don't give you

435
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 1: four not anymore. So, um, yeah, these things require blasting caps.

436
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 1: They actually can withstand impact pretty well. They can they

437
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:25,800
Speaker 1: can withstand heat pretty well, unless it's super intense explosive

438
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 1: heat that releases very quickly, which is why you need

439
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,399
Speaker 1: the blasting caps. So um, it's another one of those

440
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,880
Speaker 1: things where you'd have to have a very effective blasting

441
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:38,200
Speaker 1: cap technology to make this plastic explosive stuff ignite and

442
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,200
Speaker 1: and explode. So it's not like it's impossible, it would

443
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,800
Speaker 1: just be really tricky to do in that particular form factor.

444
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 1: And then we had a few We had some camera

445
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,080
Speaker 1: technology in this one. Um that there was some kind

446
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 1: of weird sniper camera gun thing, a sniper rifle disguised

447
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 1: as a camera. But it's like a Decepticon. Yeah, uh

448
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: snipers and guys. Yes, Um, we also had it. We

449
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:07,920
Speaker 1: also had a Polaroid camera that had definitely lasers. Well,

450
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 1: the lasers were meant to somehow create an X ray

451
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 1: version of whatever it was you were taking a picture of.

452
00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: So if I had this polaroid and you were wearing

453
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 1: a trench coat and you were laden down with various weaponry, which, guys,

454
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Lauren holds her weapons all in

455
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 1: the open, so it's not like she would be concealing

456
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 1: them because she doesn't feel the need to do that.

457
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,160
Speaker 1: But if she did, I prefer that the nine ft

458
00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 1: long anime sword right personally, right, it's it's it's very

459
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 1: comical to watch Lauren keep on bumping into door frames.

460
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:39,600
Speaker 1: But no, let's say that I wanted to check out

461
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,639
Speaker 1: and see if Lauren was in fact carrying, you know,

462
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 1: an arsenal underneath that trench coat. Take a photo of

463
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 1: this polaroid and it had this little red laser flash

464
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,560
Speaker 1: that came out of the flash instead of a regular

465
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,920
Speaker 1: camera flash, and the polaroid would come out with the

466
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,919
Speaker 1: X ray version of whatever that picture is. Um again,

467
00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 1: not really a thing. Uh, you know, using X rays

468
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 1: would be dangerous. Using that camera would be really dangerous

469
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 1: on any extended So the lasers would be deadly. Yeah,

470
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 1: and just it would just mean that you would be

471
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:12,879
Speaker 1: deadly in the sense that you would eventually probably contract

472
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 1: contract cancer as opposed to get burned by a laser.

473
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: But yeah, it wasn't meant to be a weapon. It

474
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 1: was meant to try and detect, you know, people smuggling

475
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:23,159
Speaker 1: and guns into places where you don't want them to

476
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,919
Speaker 1: have them. We'll be back with more about spy technology

477
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 1: after this quick break. Okay, In our last James Bond film,

478
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 1: we had Timothy Dalton, but now on our next one

479
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,680
Speaker 1: we go up to the next actor to play James Bond. Yeah,

480
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 1: it would be a six year break in between these

481
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 1: movies and the next film that came out was Golden

482
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 1: with Pierce Brosnan. Now Pierce Brosnan a lot of people

483
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 1: felt was a good, um refreshing breath after Timothy Dalton. Again,

484
00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,919
Speaker 1: I think the Timothy Dalton movies was that was more

485
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 1: of a scripting issue than necessarily a casting one. But

486
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: Pierce brosn and definitely brought in some uh uh you know,

487
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 1: kind of an edge to the character that had sort

488
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: of not been there before. It would definitely be refined

489
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:17,639
Speaker 1: later on. So Golden nye h. Besides being one of

490
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:21,440
Speaker 1: the best Nintendo sixty four video games ever made. I'm

491
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 1: glad that you said that, because that was going to

492
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 1: be my really important note about this was also a

493
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 1: great movie. Uh, he had his Aston Martin d B

494
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 1: five again, so we're back to the Aston Martin. This

495
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 1: one in particular, had a fax machine in the dashboard,

496
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:41,239
Speaker 1: just like any sexy, suave spy, let me fax this, um,

497
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:46,160
Speaker 1: but but more and more interestingly, cellular voice communication capacity. Yeah,

498
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,360
Speaker 1: this is when we're starting to see cell phones start

499
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 1: to get adopted in large numbers. But you know, to

500
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 1: have like a hands free cellular voice command system inside

501
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 1: of a car was definitely bleeding edge tech at the time.

502
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 1: They also had that's actually one of my favorite scenes

503
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: in Gold and I. There's a ballpoint pen that Q

504
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 1: gives to to Bond, and the pen is an actual

505
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: explosive device, a grenade that had that you activate by

506
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 1: clicking it three times, since it's a ballpoint, so if

507
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 1: you click it three times, it activates and has a

508
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 1: four second long fuse, and you can deactivate it by

509
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,639
Speaker 1: clicking it three more times. So Q says, you know,

510
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: you click it three times, click, click, click, and the

511
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 1: four second fuse starts and goes click click click, and

512
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: then James Bond takes and says, how long did you

513
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: say the fuse was? Click click click, and then Q

514
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 1: just looks at him, takes the pen back, calmly, clicks

515
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 1: it three times and says, grow up, double O seven.

516
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: And then of course there's a little line about so

517
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 1: they always said the pen is mightier than the swords

518
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:50,119
Speaker 1: as well, this time they're right because of me, says Q.

519
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: So there are a lot of other silly gadgets shown

520
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 1: in the background during the Q laboratory scene, like some

521
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 1: of the silliest ones and uh, you had like an

522
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 1: ejector seats shown off. There was the uh there was

523
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 1: one point where Q shows up. Actually, when Q first

524
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: shows up in the scene, he's we wheeling out in

525
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: the wheelchair and he's got one leg in a big

526
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: plaster cast and Bond says, home, I'm sorry about your leg,

527
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 1: and then Q demonstrates that it's actually a missile launcher,

528
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 1: and a missile launches from the cast leg and flies

529
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: about twenty feet to the right of a dummy that

530
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 1: he was pointing toward, and then Q just casually stands

531
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: up out of the wheelchair and you see that was

532
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: a false leg the whole time. Uh. And we had

533
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 1: a request by Ian on Facebook that said that we

534
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: needed to explain that, if not for the practicality, but

535
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 1: for the sheer comedic value of that particular device. There's

536
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 1: also one that they don't comment on, Like you were

537
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: saying earlier, Lauren, there occasionally in these Q segments you

538
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: just see stuff going on in the background hilarious, but

539
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 1: no one says anything. There's one point where you see

540
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: a guy, a guy in a lapka walk into a

541
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 1: phone booth and then only the phone booth just fills

542
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: up with a big inflated balloon, trapping the guy against

543
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: the door, and because the door pulls in on phone booth,

544
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: he can't get out, and you just see him squished

545
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: up against the glass, and that is hilarious. Also doesn't

546
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: play any other part in the movie whatsoever. Uh. That

547
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: starts to feel like it belongs more and get smart

548
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: than on James. Yeah, some of these, some of these

549
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: around this era started to seem like parodies of I

550
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 1: mean even even more. At least they were being self

551
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: aware because I feel like the stuff that was going

552
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: on in Roger Morris time was straightforwardly like it was

553
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: just It's great. It was just camp the way the

554
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: old Batman series was camp. So we move on to

555
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: tomorrow Never Dies that film again with Pierce Browsnon. Yep.

556
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: They had a mobile phone that could act as a

557
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: fingerprint scanner and as we've all mentioned, yeah, iPhone five

558
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 1: S does that now, so we actually have technology that

559
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: could do this that you know, we could easily adapt that.

560
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 1: In fact, I'm sure there are law enforcement agencies that

561
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: have adapted that technology to work in the field. Um.

562
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: It also contained a lock pick in the antenna. It

563
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: was an electronic lock pick, and you could put the

564
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: lock pick in a lock and you press a key

565
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: on the phone it would cause it to pick a

566
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: lock automatically. And it also was um uh twenty volts

567
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: stunned gun, so you could zap people if they wanted

568
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 1: to run up your minutes. And it could do one

569
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: other thing. It was a remote control. It was a

570
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: remote control for Bonds BMW first of all BMW car. Yeah,

571
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 1: I was a little bit irked by that too. Um.

572
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: But but the part where it was a remote control

573
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: that you know, could could let the car locate Bond

574
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: and drive itself to him is technology that people are

575
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 1: very much working on right now. Yeah, we've talked about

576
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 1: autonomous cars in the past. This is truly an autonomous

577
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: car that could you know, it could identify the signal

578
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: where Bond was and then plan out a route and

579
00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: drive to him. Obviously going in a straight line would

580
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: not necessary only work if there were say, you know,

581
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 1: lakes or buildings or something in the way. So it

582
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: actually has to be able to navigate right and and

583
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: as that kind of technology gets better, I we were

584
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: not quite there yet except an extreme prototype phase. But yeah,

585
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: but yeah, Stephen on Facebook requested that one. So also

586
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: this was you know, we weren't the only ones who

587
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 1: got a little miffed about the Aston Martin going away

588
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 1: and the BMW coming in. That ended up being a

589
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 1: kind of a sticking point for a few people. BMW

590
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: would stick around for a little bit, but uh, don't worry.

591
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: If you guys love your British cars, you'll you'll get

592
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: pay off a little bit later. There was also a

593
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: bad guy who had a wrist band grappling hook, so

594
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 1: it was something that you could fire from the wrist

595
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: band had a little python or piton if you're British

596
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: that would fly out and embed into something, and it

597
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: had a high tension strength wire connected to it so

598
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: you could swing on it or climb In this case

599
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 1: it was a character who could uh use it to

600
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: run down a vertical surface. Uh, you know, because that's happened.

601
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 1: That happened and Bond movies. Um, It's one of those

602
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: things that I questioned the legitimacy of only from the

603
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: sense of we could make a wrist mounted device that

604
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: could fire something, in fact, fire something hard enough to

605
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: to hurt or kill somebody, certainly, but to fire something

606
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 1: so hard that it embeds in a very tough material

607
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: like stone and his high tensile enough that you could

608
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: furthermore climb up. That's a lot of down as the

609
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: case maybe exactly because I mean, not only does it

610
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: have to be strong enough to to penetrate, right, it

611
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: has to be strong enough to carry the weight of

612
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: the line. Like. That's a lot of that's a lot

613
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: of stuff you've got to figure out so that this

614
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: thing will work the way it's supposed to wear. The

615
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: same problem I have with some of Batman's stuff. I

616
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: think that's a different podcast. I think I think we

617
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: should that is a different podcast probably will do something.

618
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: I think that we should call whoever created that and

619
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: be like, so we have the space elevator idea that

620
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: we're trying to work. Yeah, so if you've got enough

621
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:57,239
Speaker 1: of that wire that apparently is incredibly strong, let's use

622
00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: it for something else. Let's talk about that that moves on.

623
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: Who The world is not enough? Which is I recall

624
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: is James Bond's family motto? Was it? Yeah, the world

625
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 1: is not enough. That's that's the Bond family crest. If

626
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 1: I'm if I'm not mistaken, I could be. I'm totally

627
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: speaking from memory here. It was made another pierced brass

628
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: and in film, all right, we had yet another wrist

629
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 1: watch with the grappling hook. And and if they also

630
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 1: had eyeglasses that incorporate X ray technology, so you could

631
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: look at people and turn on the X rayspects and

632
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: they were X rayspects where you could actually see if

633
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: someone was carrying a gun. I'm sure Bond also used

634
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 1: it for other purposes. I feel like that's likely. Um.

635
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: And of course, again miniaturization of the technology is an issue.

636
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 1: And also the whole cancer thing where radiation is radiation, Yeah,

637
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: it's it's ionizing radiation, which means that it's not good

638
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: for us to be around non ionizing that's okay for

639
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: the most part, I think not okay. Yeah, However, there

640
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: are some infrared glasses that exist and can be used

641
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: for for similar nifty stuff. Just this era of vascular

642
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: imaging goggles were released that can help medical professionals like

643
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: locate a vein for for blood samples or etcetera. Pretty awesome,

644
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 1: Which is pretty awesome. Um and and of course we've

645
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 1: got photon cameras that can help us see around corners.

646
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: We talked about that in a Forred Thinking episode about

647
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,360
Speaker 1: how it measures the time it takes for light to

648
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,479
Speaker 1: come back around, Like a portion of the light hits

649
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 1: an open doorway and goes into a room, and some

650
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,479
Speaker 1: of that light gets reflected back, hits the doorway again

651
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,800
Speaker 1: gets reflected back toward the camera, and by measuring the

652
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: the amount of time those individual photons took to go

653
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 1: out and come back, a camera can actually reconstruct what

654
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,959
Speaker 1: is inside the room next door without having a clear

655
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,919
Speaker 1: line of sight inside it, which is crazy, but it's real.

656
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: It's not X ray glasses. It's never going to be

657
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 1: X ray glasses. I don't. Yeah, but I saw on

658
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 1: the back of this comic book is guys holding up

659
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: his hand. He's got this crazy he looked on his

660
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: face looks like Drew Carey. However, things that I think

661
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:08,760
Speaker 1: are definitely up and coming um bagpipes that can hold

662
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 1: machine guns and flamethrowers. Look, aren't bagpipes deadly enough already?

663
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 1: Do we really need to add more killing power to bagpipes?

664
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:21,439
Speaker 1: It up with q okay or should I say? Ah? Yeah?

665
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: That was another one of those things seen in Queues

666
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:25,800
Speaker 1: lab as, this guy with a set of bagpipes that

667
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:27,800
Speaker 1: turn into a machine gun in flamethrower, because you know,

668
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 1: that's that's exactly what we need, are more highlanders with

669
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: high high caliber weapons, all right. They also this was

670
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:36,800
Speaker 1: also one of those things that when I saw it,

671
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 1: I was like, this is this is hilarious, And yet

672
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: there's a real world technology that's similar to what was

673
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 1: shown on the screen. So James Bond's wearing the ski jacket.

674
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: There's this whole chase scene where he's driving what's essentially

675
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: a snowmobile with a parachute and a fan on the

676
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 1: back of it so that can fly in places, and

677
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,320
Speaker 1: he's being chased by bad guys who are also on

678
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: these things. And then he and a lady are on

679
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:06,320
Speaker 1: this this icy area where uh and the spot above

680
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: them is breaking apart. It's gonna cause like a little avalanche.

681
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: It's going to crush them in a second. And so

682
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: quickly James Bond grabs the lady and uh the and

683
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:19,399
Speaker 1: hits something on his jacket which inflates this ball around them.

684
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: So they get surrounded by this big inflatable ball and

685
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: uh and sort of like a zorb, one of those

686
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: big inflat and ones that you could run around inside,

687
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: similar to that yeah, yeah, big inflat hamster ball, and

688
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 1: that ends up providing shelter when everything falls on top

689
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 1: of them so that they don't get crushed by the

690
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 1: snow and ice that falls. Um. And at first, when

691
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: you look at this, you're like, oh, come on, that's

692
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: just so silly. However, it's actually kind of similar. There's this,

693
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,319
Speaker 1: um this cool yeah just announced this year. I think

694
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 1: there's this inflatable helmet. Yeah, it looks like it's uh,

695
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: this kind of bulky scarf that you would wear. Uh,

696
00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 1: it's the hole ding and it's uh, it's an air

697
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: bag for cyclists and the idea is that it has

698
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:08,280
Speaker 1: this inflatable helmet that can expand rapidly if it detects

699
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 1: a sudden change in your acceleration and cover your head

700
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: in this inflatable bag, so that way, if you have

701
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: a crash, your head is protected, even if you're not

702
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,800
Speaker 1: wearing even if you don't want to wear a standard

703
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 1: So kind of cool, I mean in the sense that

704
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: there is technology that's being developed right now that's similar

705
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: to this, this idea that was proposed in the movie.

706
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 1: I would think that anything potentially sharp like ice might

707
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,360
Speaker 1: be a bad idea for something like that. Also, the

708
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: material would have to be able to withstand puncture. I

709
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,800
Speaker 1: also think it would it would require a lot of

710
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: pressure on the inside of that that inflatable object to

711
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: withstand the huge amount of weight of an avalanche like

712
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: it would it would need to be mostly rigid right

713
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: when it couldn't be like the bouncy bouncy castle sort

714
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: of thing or just crush you. We've got more to

715
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: say a spy tech, but first let's take another quick break.

716
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,800
Speaker 1: Moving on to Die Another Day film, um, and that

717
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,400
Speaker 1: would be our last one with Pierce Brosnan. Yep. And

718
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: this one, James Bond gets a ring that can emit

719
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: an ultra high frequency single that is powerful enough to

720
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:30,320
Speaker 1: shutter bulletproof glass. Which okay, so materials have this resonant frequency,

721
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,840
Speaker 1: right that if you match the resonant frequency, it causes

722
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: the material to start to vibrate. And MythBusters did a

723
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: whole thing on this where they showed, you know, the

724
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,240
Speaker 1: whole idea of being able to shatter a a wine

725
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: glass with your voice if you're able to sing at

726
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 1: the right note, and they showed that at the right

727
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: level of uh, not not just the right frequency, but

728
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: the right volume, the right intensity, you could actually make

729
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: this happen. You could. Then they shot into slow motion

730
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: where you could actually see the glass deforming as it

731
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 1: was shaking. Is really cool. However, squeezing that amount of

732
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: energy into a ring is going to be difficult. Yeah,

733
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: being able to project that much of volume so that

734
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: you were able to shatter something like a pane of glass,

735
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: because I mean, if you ever watch these videos, glass

736
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 1: can deform a surprising amount before it breaks, a really weird,

737
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: scary amount. Yeah, when slow motion you look at you like,

738
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:25,280
Speaker 1: that doesn't even look real, So it would I certainly

739
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 1: don't think you could pack that kind of wallop in

740
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 1: a ring. No, I mean you could punch the glass

741
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: of course, of its bulletproof, You're probably just going to

742
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: break your hand. But anyway, the basic concept is sound.

743
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: The execution is questionable, not so much. Yeah, the Aston

744
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 1: Martin in this one, Um okay, So so we have

745
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,720
Speaker 1: basically we had an invisible car. Yeah, the Aston Martin Vanquish,

746
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 1: also sometimes called the Aston Martin Vanish. There's a car that,

747
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 1: according to the film, the idea was that had lots

748
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: of these little tiny cameras all around the car, and

749
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: what would happen is that it would reject it would

750
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 1: capture whatever's coming on like oncoming and projected onto the

751
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 1: surface of the car itself. There for doing kind of

752
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 1: an invisibility cloak sort of. The idea being that if

753
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 1: if you're looking at the car, you're actually seeing what's

754
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 1: on the other side of the car as opposed the

755
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 1: car itself. This worked for everything, not just the not

756
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,800
Speaker 1: just the car's body, but the wheels, the glass, the windows,

757
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:26,800
Speaker 1: the windshield, everything was was completely cloaked and when it moved,

758
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,279
Speaker 1: it moved like you know, like the clingon Starship and

759
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: star trek right right, um, And okay, so I mean

760
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: researchers and artists have in fact come up with invisibility

761
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:39,800
Speaker 1: cloaks that work on similar principles, but not at Aston

762
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: Martin road speeds really and and to be fair to

763
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 1: James Bond, at first, when you see this, the car

764
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,319
Speaker 1: is not moving, it's still. But then it does start

765
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: to move and it's moving perfectly fine, like you see

766
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 1: the shimmer as it moves. But it's not like, you know,

767
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: it's not like not like, it's not like the stuff

768
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: on the car is lagging behind three seconds from what

769
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,360
Speaker 1: is actually around it, all right, right, um, right now.

770
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 1: The best technology for this kind of thing is on

771
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,400
Speaker 1: the micrometer scale, you know, carbon nanotube stuff like that.

772
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 1: And also a lot of the stuff we think of

773
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: as invisibility cloaks right now is really for bands of

774
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:16,399
Speaker 1: light that we personally cannot see. It's just that from

775
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: a laboratory standpoint, certain types of light will pass through

776
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: as opposed to reflecting off. It's just not in the

777
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 1: visible spectrum. What do you yeah? And and that was

778
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,839
Speaker 1: a request from a couple of people on Facebook, Richard

779
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,800
Speaker 1: and Monty. Now it also of course had your standard

780
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:36,879
Speaker 1: James Bond equipment objector seat, which in this film, James

781
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: Bond uses to flip the car from being upside down

782
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 1: on its hood back to being right side up. The

783
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:48,320
Speaker 1: objector seat provides the flippy flip. Yeah. Yeah, MythBusters tested

784
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: part of that as part of that that episode that

785
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 1: they did about and missed that part. I totally forgot

786
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: that part of the You know, I don't think I've

787
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,319
Speaker 1: ever seen Die another Day. I've seen the clips, right,

788
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 1: I've seen the clips of this particular scene because and

789
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 1: I just remember yelling, oh, come on, and then I

790
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: had the standard you know, machine gun torpedoes right right, yeah,

791
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: all that stuff that you know James Bond has he

792
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: can't leave home without. So moving on, we've got uh, well,

793
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: you got the boring Bond right Casino Royale with this

794
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 1: Daniel Craig person. This this was a two thousand six films.

795
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: He's dreamy, I can't lie. So yeah, there's a new

796
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 1: West and Martin in this one, the dbs V twelve.

797
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 1: She also had a whole bunch of high tech, uh

798
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 1: first aid gear that was all stored in the glove compartment.

799
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,320
Speaker 1: So nothing like super Crazy in this one. And a

800
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 1: lot of this was the idea of going back to

801
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 1: James Bond and kind of grounding the character a little

802
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: bit more, making a little more gritty. Yeah. I I

803
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 1: liked this entire recent reboot with with Daniel Craig. I

804
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 1: thought it was a little bit it's a little bit

805
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 1: over odd at times, but that's okay. But and they

806
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,360
Speaker 1: still have cutting edge technology and in some cases cutting

807
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 1: edge technology that outstrips what we can currently do. But

808
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 1: that's not it's not so much a as goofy, yeah,

809
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: and it's not as usually right right. Um. One of

810
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: the other bits of tech from this movie was an

811
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:14,320
Speaker 1: implanted microchip that could act as both a homing device

812
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:19,359
Speaker 1: and a like a like a biometric monitor um which

813
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 1: also could send that info back out to m I

814
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:24,840
Speaker 1: six Yeah, which again is a little a little tricky,

815
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,240
Speaker 1: like how do you create a transmitter with the size

816
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 1: of a pencil racer that can also transmit this stuff.

817
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: Not that there aren't, you know, implantable technologies that that

818
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 1: are totally dissimilar to this. We do have things that

819
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: are similar, but they work on very very short range.

820
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: The idea is that's when you can actually monitor the

821
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 1: patient in person, as opposed to when when you can

822
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: kind of poke a instrument correctly at there are rather

823
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: than rather than you know, miles away. Yeah, there was

824
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,839
Speaker 1: also a touch screen table in m I six, which

825
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: you know, Microsoft had something like as of two thous

826
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: an eight. Yeah, the Surface table. The you know before

827
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: there was the Surface tablet. Dear friends, there was the

828
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 1: Microsoft Surface table, which is when when they called the

829
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 1: tablet Microsoft Surface again. That was also when I threw

830
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 1: my hands up in the air and said, oh, come on,

831
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:16,479
Speaker 1: I don't do it just to James Bond. I also

832
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 1: do it to Microsoft. What I said, you already have

833
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: a product called the Surface and it's a table. It's confusing.

834
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 1: It's fun for me to write about this. You're making

835
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,400
Speaker 1: my articles not be relevant anymore. You got to you

836
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 1: got to play with one of those one of those. Yes, yeah,

837
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 1: they had one where they was on it was on

838
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,879
Speaker 1: display that back then Microsoft had a presence at c Yes,

839
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: they used to have a jungle booth and they had

840
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: the Microsoft Surface there and you could play with it.

841
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 1: In fact, there were a couple of different booths that

842
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 1: had a Microsoft Surface. I think um oh it was

843
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 1: like Intel or something else also had one so the

844
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: neat thing about the surface was had the multi touch capability,

845
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: and this was before you saw that in everything, right,

846
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: So it was one of those um implementations that was

847
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: really cool. So this this was kind of predicting that

848
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 1: as well. Moving on to Quantum of Solace, Craig's second

849
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 1: film that came out in two thousand eight. Uh So,

850
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,439
Speaker 1: and again we have another magical telephone in a way,

851
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:13,800
Speaker 1: so this one could create a composite photo of a

852
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:16,879
Speaker 1: subject even if Bond only got like a profile shot.

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Speaker 1: So if you got a shot from the side of someone,

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Speaker 1: this phone could reconstruct that person's entire face, including the

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Speaker 1: side that was not facing the camera. And this this

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Speaker 1: is one of my personal pet peeves. And and it's

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Speaker 1: that whole zoom and enhanced concept where I'm like, no,

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Speaker 1: if the camera hasn't recorded that information, it cannot give you.

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Speaker 1: The best we can do is assume that you have

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Speaker 1: an incredibly symmetrical face. And therefore, if like James Bond,

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Speaker 1: encounters you know, mostly supermodels, then in that universe it's

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Speaker 1: actually very effective. To be fair, Lauren, James Bond does encountermodels.

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Speaker 1: This is what I'm saying, you know, that's that's okay.

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Speaker 1: Never never mind where if James Bond took a picture

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Speaker 1: of me and profile, however, it would you'd be like, Wow,

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Speaker 1: who's that devastatingly handsome gentleman? And then you see me

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Speaker 1: and like that cannot be the guy that's in this

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Speaker 1: picture because that guy's nose is all crooked and stuff.

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Speaker 1: I had a tough childhood. Um yeah, anyway, it was.

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Speaker 1: It's not that this technology is totally beyond us, but

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Speaker 1: it is one of those things where I don't I

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Speaker 1: would highly suspect the reliability of any picture that is

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Speaker 1: completely created from just a portion of someone's face. Um. Now,

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Speaker 1: we have seen interesting scanning technology with people using something

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Speaker 1: like the Connect where they do a very slow turn

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Speaker 1: and it gives a full three D scan of a

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Speaker 1: person's head. But in that case, you're talking about the

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Speaker 1: device that's actually getting data from all points, right, it's

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Speaker 1: not just one side all right. Then when it comes

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Speaker 1: up to Skyfall, the as of right now, most recent

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00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: film in the James Bond franchise that came out in

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Speaker 1: and also starred Mr Craig, Mr Dreamy Craig and um

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00:46:56,760 --> 00:47:00,359
Speaker 1: and and this this film was very much as sing

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Speaker 1: that kind of stripped down esthetic versus especially some of

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Speaker 1: the earlier goofy or nineteen eighties films. Um uh and

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00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 1: and so they kind of make a bit out of

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Speaker 1: it when when bonding the new queue made up for

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Speaker 1: the first time, umu Q gives him this little box

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Speaker 1: and all it contains is a Walter p p K

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Speaker 1: and and and a little radio transmitter and and bonds

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00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: like that's it, like like not exactly Christmas, is it? However,

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00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 1: his his gun does have a a scanner on the handle,

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Speaker 1: so it only bond can fire it, all right, right,

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00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 1: it's a little pomp print reader thing, yeah, which which

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Speaker 1: which is technically possible, although it would be harder um

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Speaker 1: on a on a mechanical device than it would have

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Speaker 1: been on on a digital So if you have some

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Speaker 1: sort of digital safety, digitize the safety or something. If

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Speaker 1: you if you make the safety completely separate from a

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Speaker 1: mechanical approach and you make it an electronic approach, I

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Speaker 1: could see that like if it's it's a gay aged

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Speaker 1: unless the quote unquote right person is holding the gun, um,

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Speaker 1: that would That's the only way I could imagine that

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Speaker 1: making sense. I'll give that one to cue um and it.

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Speaker 1: Also we also see a return of the Aston Martin

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Speaker 1: dB five um, like the like the super classic one

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Speaker 1: with all of the super classic stuff pretty much from Goldfinger,

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Speaker 1: which you know, to be fair, Skyfall had a lot

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00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: of little nods to some of the earlier Bond films,

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Speaker 1: like you you would actually you know, see examples of

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Speaker 1: some of the stuff that appeared in earlier Bond films

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Speaker 1: just kind of uh, surreptitiously hidden in the in the scene,

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Speaker 1: not something that was you know, paraded out in front

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Speaker 1: of you, but that That's one of those cool things

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Speaker 1: is seeing them pay homage to this rich past that

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Speaker 1: James Bond has accumulated, even as they go forward and

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Speaker 1: potentially go back and and recreate some of these older stories.

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Speaker 1: So it's possible that we'll see some of these older

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Speaker 1: stories reimagined in new form um. Some of them may

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Speaker 1: just be completely written, you know, from scratch. Some of

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Speaker 1: the James Bond films are not based off of any

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Speaker 1: Fleming novel. But maybe some of the future ones will

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Speaker 1: be just reimagined versions of that. Yeah, and I'm really

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Speaker 1: curious to see how I mean, as we keep saying,

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Speaker 1: as we have been saying throughout these two episodes. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, a lot of this stuff that was crazy

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Speaker 1: revolutionary sci fi tech in the nineteen sixties is stuff

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Speaker 1: that's on our smartphones today. That wraps up this classic

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Speaker 1: episode of tech Stuff. Hope you enjoyed it. If you

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