WEBVTT - TechStuff Classic: TechStuff Bonds With Spy Tech Part Two 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.800 Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio. 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:14.360 Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:17.320 Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer with I Heart Radio 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:20.400 and love all things tech. And it is time to 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:25.240 continue our story about spy technology. We started that in 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.200 the classic episode last week. This is another classic episode, 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:32.280 this one published on January eight, two thousand and fourteen, 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:37.599 and we take another look at spy tech, both fictional 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:42.519 and realistic. Let's take a listen. So supposedly John D, 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.920 the sixteenth century science guy Dr John D, may have 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.680 been the first double O seven to perform espionage in 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:51.960 the royal service. He served as an advisor to the 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.560 Queen and reportedly signed his messages with two zero's symbolizing 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.160 his job as the Queen's eyes um, followed by a 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:01.040 seven with the top drawn out over the zeros that 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.960 the number seven reportedly having some kind of occult meaning 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:06.720 to d Um. So his code name, if you will, 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.720 was double O seven Yeah, and that you can uh find. 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.200 And we actually have an article all about James Bond 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:15.640 at How Stuff Works. You can learn more about the 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.320 background and the supposed mythology behind it. By the way, 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.399 I've got another trivia tidbit about Dr John D. Yeah. 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.480 Did you know that? According to HP Lovecraft, Dr John 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.919 D was the man responsible for translating the Necronomicon into English, 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:32.280 although that translation was never found I did not. Okay, 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.200 so let's jump into the James Bond series. Now, when 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.440 we last we left off, we had worked our way 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:41.120 up to Moonraker, the nineteen seventy nine film, and yes 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.960 we are in the middle of Roger Moore's um the 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.400 best James Bond ever. As I mentioned in the last one, 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:51.400 George lazenby close second Roger Moore, Man, you can I 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:55.320 could just hear the frustrated squeals of of James Bond 0:01:55.360 --> 0:02:00.640 fans everywhere placed Timothy Dalton, just just trying not to 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:04.800 kill you with their minds. Oh it's fine, it's fine. 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:09.160 Uh yeah. So Moonraker head, this was the era where 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:13.919 the Roger Moore era, where the gadgets really started going crazy. Yeah. 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.920 We keep in mind Lauren and I met before we 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.000 came in to record this, where we cut a bunch 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.440 of gadgets because we just for time. There's just too many. 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.080 And in this particular era alone, I think like sixty 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:29.000 of our cuts came from these, right, So starting off, 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:32.119 we have a wrist dart gun with poison tipped darts 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.160 are also armor piercing darts, so we had two different types. 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:39.520 And there are lots of electronic dart guns that have 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:43.960 been created over the past, including a well there's one 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:45.600 that was not even this was an electric It was 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.960 actually a bullet one. It was a gun gun. There 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.919 was a glove mounted gun, so the barrel of gun 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.000 was actually on the palm side, and it was designed 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:57.880 so that when you would make a fist and punch something, 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.040 the gun which the barrel would hopefu clear your knuckles, 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.920 would fire off. And the idea being that it was 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.000 developed in World War two by the OSS and the 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:07.840 idea is that, you know, if you were to create 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.240 the sort of thing and show a person punching someone 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.720 else and the other person dies as a result of 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:16.960 being punched, it would scare the heck out of your enemies, like, wow, 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.880 they are so strong. But here's the thing didn't work 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:24.040 so well, so hardly anyone ever fired one of these things. 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:30.040 There are some interesting pictures online of the various gun gloves. Uh. 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.040 So there have been people who have tried to make 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.920 this kind of technology work, but no one's really done 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.120 it in such a way that it was ever practical. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.840 So risk dart gun not necessarily practical. There's probably other 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:47.880 ways you could, you know, someone's life starts out other 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.760 kind of impractical thing. A cigarette case with an X 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.320 ray safe cracking device. Yeah, I'm not sure how you 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:58.040 would fit X ray scanning technology into the form factor 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.680 of a cigarette case. That sounds impossible. It sounds pretty 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:05.760 hard to me. Yeah, also had a wristwatch. There are 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.200 a lot of wristwatches in James Bond. That's one of 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:09.800 the things that we ended up cutting some of them 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.640 because there's so many. They were like, yeah, we we've already. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.520 But anyway, this particular wristwatch had a detonator refused and 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:19.039 an explosive charge built into it, which, again, that's a 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.400 lot of stuff to pack into a tiny form factor. 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.640 Now I can totally understand a detonator in a watch. 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.960 A transmitter, that's something that I could, you know, especially 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.240 once you get into the transistor era, and we're well 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.200 into it now in nine. Transistors are definitely a thing. 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.599 When you get into that mantorization where you press a 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:39.720 button and it sends out a radio signal. I totally 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.320 get that, but being able to build in all this 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:46.120 other stuff so that it can contain everything is a 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:50.120 little on the science fiction side. Yeah, that's that's dicey 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.640 in terms of physics. There was also something showing off 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:56.279 in queues laboratory that disturbed me. Are you are you 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.719 talking about the Mexican machine gun. Yeah, the Mexican machine gun. 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:04.640 It's so this is problematic, so that while showing what, 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.080 you know, a lot of the scenes show que walking 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:11.240 through the laboratory and some outlandishly ridiculous gadget is going 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.240 off in the background. Yeah, just completely without comment, just 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.240 that's just happening. Occasionally they might stop, Oh have you 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.920 seen this double O seven. It's a Mexican machine gun 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:22.800 and it looks like a well, it looks like a mannequin. 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.520 It is a mannequin of a person wearing like a 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.520 sombrero and taking a cs to like like a troubling 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:33.240 lye racist mannequin. Yeah, and then the chest opens up, 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.960 revealing a machine gun that fires off. So yeah, that 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.600 was a little problematic. And then there, of course, is 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:43.600 the character of Holly Goodhead, who had lots of gadgets. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:47.200 She was a CIA agent in Moonraker, and she had 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:51.520 her own weapons, which included a pen, a notebook, and perfume. 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.120 It was a poison pen, it was, it was a 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.960 dart shooting note back. All women, it was flamethrower, perfume. 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.840 Every I'm sure you have some at your desk. It's 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.960 probably pink too, because we all know what ladies like, right, yeah, 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.680 I know. The the To be fair, the James Bond 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.480 franchise has never been accused of being forward thinking as 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.640 far as women are concerned. Yeah, that's that's or or 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:19.920 race when it comes to that. No, there's some terrible examples, 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.480 but we're what of course, we're constant on the gadgets, 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:26.440 not the not the social commentary. So moving up to one, 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.320 we're still with Roger Moore. Still yeah, for your eyes only. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.839 Yeah no, it's not just for my eyes, Lauren. It 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.839 was for the world's eyes. Oh you're talking about the 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.200 title of the movie. Okay, yes, for your eyes on 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.680 the yes, um. They introduced a computer like device called 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:42.440 the identograph in this which was interesting. The idea was 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.560 that you could create a composite picture of a person 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:50.200 by adding or removing distinguishing features on a computer. Yeah, 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.680 so it's kind of like, no, the nose is bigger, No, no, 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.440 the eyes are wider. Set that kind of thing, which 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.640 is totally something we can do now. Yeah. Yeah, facial 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.200 composition techniques have been in use for for decades and 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.039 decades at this point, but um, I don't think that 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.400 we got a digital version until the late nineteen eighties. 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.360 So this is kind of again another sort of predictive technology, 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.960 but it's certainly something that has been used since. We 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.400 still have you know, uh like a sketch artists who 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.400 work with police departments too. But now there are also 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.520 these technologies that let people uh kind of mix and 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:24.040 match basic features where you get a general idea of 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.480 what someone might look like based upon a description. Yeah, 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:32.480 it's it's great, uh, great artistic technology. Um. Also in 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.520 this film, we had an update to the communications first watch, 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.520 I think last we had kind of a ticker tape 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.440 sort of thing going on, um, and this one could 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.040 receive digital messages and be used like a walkie talkie, 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.760 which is fantastic because it meant that Roger Moore could 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.440 clear out all that extra space in his hollow arm 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:52.000 for the battery that would be necessary to run this device. Um, 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.400 you know, for those who don't get that joke, you 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.240 need to listen to the other podcast, the other episode. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.400 Of course, these days that's totally a thing we have 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.960 in pockets all the time. But but yes, at the time, 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.280 it was still a little bit forward thinking. We wouldn't 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.040 start to get wrist watches with that kind of capacity 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.800 until the late eighties at the very earliest. And of 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.400 course we you know, we've talked all about smart watches 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.160 in previous episodes, including the most famous one, the Dick 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:21.120 Tracy wrist radio, and there have been lots of people 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.600 who have created various kinds of of watches that were 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.440 also communicators. But now we're finally getting into the era 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:30.080 where they aren't super bulky or have you know, no 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.959 battery life whatsoever. So definitely a little ahead of its 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.080 time there, but supposed to be. Moving on to the next. 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:41.280 Roger Moore film, nineteen eight three's Octopusy, which I saw 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:45.880 in a drive in movie theater. I remember distinctly going 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.920 to see this movie and thinking, even as a kid, 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:53.440 in three same year that Return of the Jedi came out, 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:57.560 even as a kid, thinking this is silly. It's this 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.480 I would I would argue that Octopusy is these silliest 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.560 of the James Bond. But it certainly had some of 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:08.160 the silliest examples of technology and and uh camouflage, with 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.360 the possible exception of a car that we'll talk about 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.040 towards the end of this episode. But for one thing, 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.400 they had the wristwatch and pen combo that this part 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.840 wasn't so silly. The idea was that the pen had 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:22.040 surveillance technology like a microphone in it that you would 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:25.360 surreptitiously leave someplace and then you could pick up the 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.160 transmission on the wristwatch and listen in on what was 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:31.480 going on. Not that crazy an idea actually, so I 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.520 kind of get that one. Also, the pen had some 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.839 nitric and hydrochloric acid in it that could clearly dissolve stuff, 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:39.720 because occasionally you have to dissolve a bad guy's face, 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:41.439 you know, and you might have the ark of the 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.760 Covenant in your use. Uh. So, then there was a 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:49.640 weapon that one of the nameless henchman in this movie used. 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:53.240 There was a buzz saw slash yo yo type thing. Well, 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.319 I mean it was I don't think that was intended 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.280 to be a yo yo. I think it was purely 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.440 for for weapon purposes. I don't think that the bad 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.760 guy was trying to trick anyone with it. It wasn't 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:04.679 trying to walk the dog or it wasn't. I mean, 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.560 it was a buzz saw that had yo yo functionality. Yeah, 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:11.360 so the they thought ahead a little bit. So the 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.160 there was like a handpiece this guy wore where he 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.280 could hold the blade like a saw blade, you know, 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.480 and like a saw blade that's on a cable. But uh, 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.400 and he was the guy who was using it was 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.360 mostly using it from above. He was on a level 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:27.640 higher up than where James Bond was. He could kind 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:29.640 of throw it down and have it come back into 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.120 your hand right and it would spin on the end 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.240 of its ropes, sort of like a yo yo would 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:38.200 if you if you did not sleep. I just you know, 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:42.600 it's it's called sleeping. But it could cut through like 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.640 all this stuff, Like it cuts through a table that's 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.439 got like a big fruit plate on it, because you 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.520 know that's visually interesting. Um. And truth is, unless there 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.680 was a motor that was turning that saw blade, that 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.080 just wouldn't work because as soon as it made contact 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.960 with something solid, it would start to lose velocity, so 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.840 it might it might embed in something. Sure, you could 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.840 probably get it to injure a person. Pretty sure, Pretty well, sure. 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.160 I just wouldn't continue to cut. It wouldn't continue to 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.840 rotate and cut, so that's not realistic. In fact, a 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.880 larger version of this sort of thing was used in 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.040 a later James Bond film, but on an industrial level, 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.040 where it was supposed to be something meant to cut 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:23.319 down trees and ends up cutting James Bond's car in half. Unlikely. Yeah, Um, 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.400 something that was more likely was a TV watch. Um, 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.760 but Bond had a had a color TV display embedded 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.600 in a in a wrist watch. Um, have you seen 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.240 any pictures of this thing? I'll tell you what. All 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:39.160 the pictures online of this thing. The still image that 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:44.079 they picked, which which one woman's cleavage shocking. I'm shocked, 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.360 every single one. By the way, if you're going out 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.679 there rushing to look at Google image starch right now 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.800 after I said that for shame. But I was just 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:54.040 it was one of those things where I was looking 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:55.960 at pictures of these different gadgets because some of them 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.800 I was unfamiliar with. I haven't seen all the Bond films, 0:11:58.800 --> 0:11:59.880 so I was like, I need to see a picture 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:02.640 of or perhaps it's been a while in many cases, 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.760 right right, And then like, I have no memory of 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.719 this TV watch even though I remember watching Octopussy and uh, 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.000 and so I looked it up and was like, oh, really, 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:12.760 at Saco had actually come out with a two color 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:18.120 TV watch the previous year, so so that was totally legit. Almost. Yeah, 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.080 it was a little bit smaller than what you would 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.120 expect in it had a little bit color, the color 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.880 was better, but but it was still online with the 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:26.760 sort of stuff that was coming out, you know, and 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.760 you expect that whatever James Bond has is bleeding edge technology. Yes, 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.720 other bleeding edge technology. And my two favorite from this film, 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.920 which are probably my two favorite of any James Bond 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:41.640 film ever in terms of pure ridiculous factor. Yeah, we've 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.079 got We've got the fake horse. Yeah, there's a horse 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.760 trailer with a fake horse, and the back end of 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.160 the fake horse lifts up and James Bond pulls out 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.320 a miniature aircraft that was hidden inside the horse and 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:57.920 horse trailer. So you've got this camouflaged trailer like it 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.080 could have just been a trailer. Why did it to 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:01.880 be a horse trailer with a fake horse and at 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:07.959 that's hiding a gyrocopter. That is a question for the ages, Jonathan, 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.280 I'm not answer. I would say that this is the 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.120 dumbest thing that happens in Octopus E except for one 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.439 other thing, except for the fact that there's a crocodile 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:21.079 shaped motor boat. Yeah, there's a crocodile shaped It's it's 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.600 incredible to me that that multiple people in a movie 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.520 studio said this is a great plan. Let us enact it. 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.320 This is a and this continues to be terrific, let 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.160 us go ahead with it. Not that's not only that, 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:35.720 but someone paid for that crocodile shaped motor boat. Prop 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.079 paid a lot. There might have been multiple ones that 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:40.800 they had to decide which one of these is the 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:46.280 best crocodile shaped boat prop. Oh Man, So let's move on. 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.840 Things do improve in a way. We we get never 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:53.959 say Never again in with a Return of Sean Connery. Now, 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.960 this was a film that was not made by the 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.000 same studio that was making all the other James Bond films. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.480 So some people don't include it, some people do. We're 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:06.480 including it because why not. It's actually kind of a 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.200 based on the same story as a Thunderball was. So 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.800 if you remember in our last episode, Connery was in 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:16.760 Thunderball too, So essentially he's he's making two remake of 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.840 his own movie in a way. So in this one, 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.240 he had a pen that had an explosive charge in 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.720 it that was meant to fire a projectile, which you 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:27.680 could do, and we talked about the lipstick and cigarette 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.760 one shot pistols in the past. Obviously you couldn't make 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:33.600 it be a pen pen like. It couldn't be made 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:35.280 out of the same stuff as your regular pen, because 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.880 that wouldn't hold up under the stress of your hand. Yeah, 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.360 that would be bad. That's what we call a bad result. 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:45.160 But technically it is possible. H And another, I thought 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.600 I'd pull up another kind of funky spy gun. I 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.840 like to bring up real life examples whenever we talk 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.920 about these fictional ones. There actually was this cell phone, 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.080 um that what looks like it dates from the early nineties. 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.000 It is a big, clunky, candy bar style cell phone, 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.880 all right, But if you were to uh to bisect 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:07.320 it so the top half comes away from the bottom half, 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.840 you would see that there are four bullets that can 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:11.960 be in this thing, and it can actually fire bullets. 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:13.800 When you put in a four digit code in the 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.960 cell phone, it fires off a bullet. Yeah. So, um, 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:18.720 one of these was actually found in the wild. I 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.320 want to say it was in the UK. So it's 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.600 kind of a kind of crazy that these things actually 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.640 do exist to some extent, although I doubt that they are, 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:28.920 you know, in wide use. It's probably one of those 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.800 things that you know, when all else fails, that's something 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:33.880 that you might rely upon that may or may not 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.120 get you out of a tricky situation, unless you're James Bond, 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.520 in which case it always does right because it's because 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:43.520 it's a plot gadget. Yeah. Um uh. That film also 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.400 had I think the first example of a watch with 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:51.040 a laser beam cutting tool, yeah, which again not realistic 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.600 because you would need a lot of power to be 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.880 able to create a laser of significant intensity for you 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:00.000 to cut through anything. Now, we could have laser pointers 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.760 Shara watches, in fact, I'm sure there's some watches out 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:06.440 there that do. But for something that could actually cut 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.440 you would need a pretty significant power and that's not 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.640 something that you could fit in a wrist watch form 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.320 factor moving on too of you to a kill. We'll 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:21.280 guess who's back with us, Roger Moore. So here's an 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.800 interesting piece of technology that that you found an example of, 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.440 at least a concept that's similar to it. One of 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.840 the things James Bond has is a ring that hides 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.880 a camera in it. Now, this is also, especially in 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.800 five when you're talking about film cameras, really hard to 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.520 do because how do you how do you miniaturize all 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.640 that stuff so it fits into a ring? Um. But 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:44.800 on top of that, you know, now even with a 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:47.520 digital one, it would still be tricky because again you 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:49.320 have to worry about power, like where does the power 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.920 come from? Right, news broken late that a design studio 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.520 is working on a digital camera and in a ring 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:59.720 thing like this. They're they're calling it the camera ing. Yeah, um, 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.080 but it as of right now, I haven't heard any 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.159 further development about everything I looked into. Look like it 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:08.639 was a concept, not even beyond a concept at this point, 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.199 so we may never see a real one. Now, the 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.120 pictures of the concept drawings make it look super cool 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:16.400 and I totally want one. Yeah, And in fact, lots 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.240 of people on on like Pinterest and fancy in places 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:21.959 like that have been like this. This thing is terrific. Um. 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:25.280 But yeah, there's now the drawing is terrific. It's amazing 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.959 what people can draw, isn't it? If only that thing 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:29.880 can come real again, I don't know how you get 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:31.639 around the power thing. You geld to have a small 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.680 battery in it, but it would drain that pretty quickly, 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.720 I would imagine. Anyway. They also had an electric shaver 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:45.080 that was actually hiding eavesdropping technology, which again uh and um. 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.639 And then that that iceberg boat submarine. It all depends 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:50.399 on who you ask. Whether as a boat or a 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:55.160 submarine that's disguised as an iceberg, it's better than a crocodile. However, 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.480 this particular iceberg boat also, as I recall, had a 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:02.919 bed in it, and she pain I. I that, you know, 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.240 iceberg shaped sub mercibles is where I keep all of 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.439 my luxury items. So I'm not sure why you're questioning this. 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:11.080 This is one of those issues that I have with 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:13.360 James Bond. Is just not only that he's a spy 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.919 that draws unwanted attention to himself wherever he goes, but 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:21.840 he's also like living this insane lavish lifestyle that that 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.680 nobody does except for maybe Elon Musk. Maybe that's why 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:29.359 he bought that's submercibiles. He's trying to become James Bond. Um. 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.199 You know. Anyway, I just thought it was weird. So 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.560 now we're moving on to the Living Daylights, where we 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:40.199 get a brand new Bond. Timothy Dalton, Yeah, this is 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.760 Timothy Dalton was not one of the more lauded James Bonds. 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.760 Less than popular at least I think Roger Moore people 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:51.680 have a kind of fondness or campiness. Timothy Dawnon. Well, 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:55.200 for it's not entirely his fault that Timothy Dalton movies 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:58.280 were a little dour. You know, they weren't. There were. 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:00.719 It seemed like a lot of fun missing from some 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:02.520 of those Timothy Dalton and they they were, they were 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.400 a little bit humorless. I so the Living Daylights, let's 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.359 talk about some of the gadgets in that. Yeah, let's see. 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:12.880 We had a a key chain that included knockout gas 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:15.920 to be released if you whistled the correct notes, which 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:20.000 was rule Britannia for James Bond. Presumably each double O 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:24.320 agent would have a different whistle que so rule Britanny. 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.040 So do do do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.560 would release knockout gas, but it also could explode if 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.240 used a different kind of whistle. For for for James, 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.520 they used a wolf whistle, which Q of course comments 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:39.160 upon as you would expect, and it was totally appropriate 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.959 for Mr misogyny James Bond. Also contained inside this key 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.440 chain was a lock pick capable of opening up like 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:49.920 n of the world's locks, according to Q, which is amazing. Um, 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:52.800 I'm not sure that any keychain could contain all of 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:55.280 these things and still be a key chain and not 0:19:55.840 --> 0:20:00.680 like a kit. It seems unlikely. Yeah, that that's again 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:03.600 one of those physics issues. How do you pack? How 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:06.280 do you make enough room for enough knockout gas to 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:11.200 be effective for anything, or enough explosive charge to be dangerous, 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:15.280 and have the enough room for the lock picks as well? 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:17.720 All three of those things into something that tiny would 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:19.840 be really hard to do. Also, how can you make 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.359 sure that when one goes off, like when the gas 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:25.920 is released, it doesn't accidentally also make it explode. Because 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.440 knockout gas is great if you don't want to hurt people, 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:30.320 but if you do knock out gas and then immediately 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.760 the key chain explodes. Yeah that's not good. Yeah. I 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.600 would assume that whatever release mechanism would would be I 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:40.000 don't know, yeah, at any rate. Um. Then then there 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:44.119 was a boom box, Yes, the Ghetto Blast. As Q 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:46.919 would say, it was meant for agents who are operating 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.560 in the United States because, as we all know, by 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:54.600 seven we all were walking around with four foot long 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:58.399 radios perched on our shoulders. Well, it's the only thing 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:02.359 that matched with our pants were until we were mostly 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:05.600 looking for for sheets of cardboard upon which we would 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:09.159 bust some moves. I would encourage you to watch the 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:14.200 documentary Break into Electric Boogaloo to learn more. So anyway, 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:18.240 the Ghetto Blaster was a rocket launcher that was disguised 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:22.200 to be a boom box. The heaviest boombox eff you 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:24.800 would imagine for it to be an effective rocket launcher, 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:28.080 it would probably be pretty weighty. To be fair, boom 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.520 boxes were already pretty heavy back in those days, but 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:33.960 this would be even heavier. However, Dalton Is Bond did 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:37.760 get a new Aston Martin, Yes, the V eight Vantage Volante, 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:45.440 which had hug cap lasers, retractable ski retractable spikes, also 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:48.159 a missile launcher and a rocket that would make it go. 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:51.679 As I put in the notes, Wicked Fast also had 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:54.480 a self destruct system, which most of the aston Martin's 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:56.600 actual this point did too. That's one of those things 0:21:57.119 --> 0:22:00.879 come standard self destruction, you know. Not the bond ever 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:03.720 needed the self destruct system. Yeah. No, he was usually 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:05.560 pretty good at wrecking those all on his own, to 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:07.440 be fair. To be fair, I think one of his 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:11.200 vehicles did did a self destruct when someone tried to 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:13.679 break into it, and it was part of the anti 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:18.080 theft device. It's a very effective one. Just a car alarm. No, 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:21.720 that's great. That's much less annoying than alarm because it's 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:24.640 over in a moment. It doesn't go on all morning long. 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:28.520 Moving on to our next film, License to Kill From 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:32.400 I remember this one too. Uh So, this one had 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:39.680 a plastic explosives in the form of toothpaste called Dentonite. Yeah, 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:42.560 and I had a pack of cigarettes that were used 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:46.080 as the detonator, So you would squeeze out the plastic 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:50.200 the plastic and then use the the cigarettes and planted 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:52.560 in it to be the blasting caps. So I they 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:55.720 don't actually say what type of plastic explosives they're using. 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:59.240 I assume it was something similar to PE four, which 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:01.840 is what the Brits use. In the US, we use 0:23:01.920 --> 0:23:05.440 something very similar called C four. I say we, I 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:09.520 just mean the the entities that have access to these 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:12.560 things personally, I don't use either. They don't give you 0:23:12.960 --> 0:23:17.480 four not anymore. So, um, yeah, these things require blasting caps. 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:21.359 They actually can withstand impact pretty well. They can they 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:25.800 can withstand heat pretty well, unless it's super intense explosive 0:23:25.840 --> 0:23:28.280 heat that releases very quickly, which is why you need 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:31.399 the blasting caps. So um, it's another one of those 0:23:31.440 --> 0:23:33.880 things where you'd have to have a very effective blasting 0:23:33.920 --> 0:23:38.200 cap technology to make this plastic explosive stuff ignite and 0:23:38.480 --> 0:23:41.200 and explode. So it's not like it's impossible, it would 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:43.800 just be really tricky to do in that particular form factor. 0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:46.320 And then we had a few We had some camera 0:23:46.480 --> 0:23:49.080 technology in this one. Um that there was some kind 0:23:49.119 --> 0:23:54.560 of weird sniper camera gun thing, a sniper rifle disguised 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:59.080 as a camera. But it's like a Decepticon. Yeah, uh 0:23:59.200 --> 0:24:02.080 snipers and guys. Yes, Um, we also had it. We 0:24:02.119 --> 0:24:07.920 also had a Polaroid camera that had definitely lasers. Well, 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:11.560 the lasers were meant to somehow create an X ray 0:24:11.880 --> 0:24:13.720 version of whatever it was you were taking a picture of. 0:24:13.840 --> 0:24:16.760 So if I had this polaroid and you were wearing 0:24:16.880 --> 0:24:21.320 a trench coat and you were laden down with various weaponry, which, guys, 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:24.040 I gotta tell you, Lauren holds her weapons all in 0:24:24.119 --> 0:24:26.240 the open, so it's not like she would be concealing 0:24:26.320 --> 0:24:28.520 them because she doesn't feel the need to do that. 0:24:28.640 --> 0:24:31.160 But if she did, I prefer that the nine ft 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:34.600 long anime sword right personally, right, it's it's it's very 0:24:34.640 --> 0:24:37.200 comical to watch Lauren keep on bumping into door frames. 0:24:37.520 --> 0:24:39.600 But no, let's say that I wanted to check out 0:24:39.680 --> 0:24:41.639 and see if Lauren was in fact carrying, you know, 0:24:41.840 --> 0:24:44.760 an arsenal underneath that trench coat. Take a photo of 0:24:44.840 --> 0:24:47.560 this polaroid and it had this little red laser flash 0:24:47.640 --> 0:24:49.560 that came out of the flash instead of a regular 0:24:49.960 --> 0:24:52.920 camera flash, and the polaroid would come out with the 0:24:53.160 --> 0:24:56.919 X ray version of whatever that picture is. Um again, 0:24:57.119 --> 0:25:01.280 not really a thing. Uh, you know, using X rays 0:25:01.320 --> 0:25:05.040 would be dangerous. Using that camera would be really dangerous 0:25:05.080 --> 0:25:08.520 on any extended So the lasers would be deadly. Yeah, 0:25:08.520 --> 0:25:10.520 and just it would just mean that you would be 0:25:10.600 --> 0:25:12.879 deadly in the sense that you would eventually probably contract 0:25:12.960 --> 0:25:15.600 contract cancer as opposed to get burned by a laser. 0:25:15.920 --> 0:25:17.840 But yeah, it wasn't meant to be a weapon. It 0:25:17.920 --> 0:25:20.720 was meant to try and detect, you know, people smuggling 0:25:20.760 --> 0:25:23.159 and guns into places where you don't want them to 0:25:23.240 --> 0:25:26.919 have them. We'll be back with more about spy technology 0:25:27.000 --> 0:25:37.800 after this quick break. Okay, In our last James Bond film, 0:25:38.280 --> 0:25:40.520 we had Timothy Dalton, but now on our next one 0:25:40.560 --> 0:25:43.680 we go up to the next actor to play James Bond. Yeah, 0:25:43.760 --> 0:25:46.320 it would be a six year break in between these 0:25:46.400 --> 0:25:48.760 movies and the next film that came out was Golden 0:25:50.119 --> 0:25:53.399 with Pierce Brosnan. Now Pierce Brosnan a lot of people 0:25:53.800 --> 0:25:59.639 felt was a good, um refreshing breath after Timothy Dalton. Again, 0:25:59.680 --> 0:26:01.919 I think the Timothy Dalton movies was that was more 0:26:01.960 --> 0:26:04.600 of a scripting issue than necessarily a casting one. But 0:26:04.720 --> 0:26:07.520 Pierce brosn and definitely brought in some uh uh you know, 0:26:07.640 --> 0:26:11.000 kind of an edge to the character that had sort 0:26:11.040 --> 0:26:13.760 of not been there before. It would definitely be refined 0:26:13.880 --> 0:26:17.639 later on. So Golden nye h. Besides being one of 0:26:17.720 --> 0:26:21.440 the best Nintendo sixty four video games ever made. I'm 0:26:21.480 --> 0:26:23.000 glad that you said that, because that was going to 0:26:23.080 --> 0:26:26.200 be my really important note about this was also a 0:26:26.280 --> 0:26:30.119 great movie. Uh, he had his Aston Martin d B 0:26:30.280 --> 0:26:33.040 five again, so we're back to the Aston Martin. This 0:26:33.160 --> 0:26:35.600 one in particular, had a fax machine in the dashboard, 0:26:35.720 --> 0:26:41.239 just like any sexy, suave spy, let me fax this, um, 0:26:41.640 --> 0:26:46.160 but but more and more interestingly, cellular voice communication capacity. Yeah, 0:26:47.240 --> 0:26:49.360 this is when we're starting to see cell phones start 0:26:49.440 --> 0:26:51.760 to get adopted in large numbers. But you know, to 0:26:51.840 --> 0:26:55.600 have like a hands free cellular voice command system inside 0:26:55.680 --> 0:26:59.040 of a car was definitely bleeding edge tech at the time. 0:26:59.600 --> 0:27:02.600 They also had that's actually one of my favorite scenes 0:27:02.640 --> 0:27:05.520 in Gold and I. There's a ballpoint pen that Q 0:27:06.160 --> 0:27:10.359 gives to to Bond, and the pen is an actual 0:27:10.560 --> 0:27:14.040 explosive device, a grenade that had that you activate by 0:27:14.080 --> 0:27:16.600 clicking it three times, since it's a ballpoint, so if 0:27:16.640 --> 0:27:18.760 you click it three times, it activates and has a 0:27:18.800 --> 0:27:21.119 four second long fuse, and you can deactivate it by 0:27:21.119 --> 0:27:23.639 clicking it three more times. So Q says, you know, 0:27:23.680 --> 0:27:25.720 you click it three times, click, click, click, and the 0:27:25.880 --> 0:27:28.200 four second fuse starts and goes click click click, and 0:27:28.280 --> 0:27:30.840 then James Bond takes and says, how long did you 0:27:30.880 --> 0:27:33.600 say the fuse was? Click click click, and then Q 0:27:33.920 --> 0:27:37.280 just looks at him, takes the pen back, calmly, clicks 0:27:37.320 --> 0:27:40.040 it three times and says, grow up, double O seven. 0:27:41.520 --> 0:27:43.800 And then of course there's a little line about so 0:27:44.320 --> 0:27:46.720 they always said the pen is mightier than the swords 0:27:46.720 --> 0:27:50.119 as well, this time they're right because of me, says Q. 0:27:51.000 --> 0:27:54.040 So there are a lot of other silly gadgets shown 0:27:54.600 --> 0:27:57.960 in the background during the Q laboratory scene, like some 0:27:58.080 --> 0:28:01.960 of the silliest ones and uh, you had like an 0:28:02.160 --> 0:28:05.600 ejector seats shown off. There was the uh there was 0:28:05.640 --> 0:28:07.680 one point where Q shows up. Actually, when Q first 0:28:07.680 --> 0:28:09.680 shows up in the scene, he's we wheeling out in 0:28:09.720 --> 0:28:12.000 the wheelchair and he's got one leg in a big 0:28:12.560 --> 0:28:16.080 plaster cast and Bond says, home, I'm sorry about your leg, 0:28:16.560 --> 0:28:19.639 and then Q demonstrates that it's actually a missile launcher, 0:28:19.720 --> 0:28:23.200 and a missile launches from the cast leg and flies 0:28:23.400 --> 0:28:26.240 about twenty feet to the right of a dummy that 0:28:26.359 --> 0:28:30.399 he was pointing toward, and then Q just casually stands 0:28:30.440 --> 0:28:32.080 up out of the wheelchair and you see that was 0:28:32.119 --> 0:28:34.320 a false leg the whole time. Uh. And we had 0:28:34.359 --> 0:28:36.720 a request by Ian on Facebook that said that we 0:28:36.800 --> 0:28:39.760 needed to explain that, if not for the practicality, but 0:28:39.880 --> 0:28:43.720 for the sheer comedic value of that particular device. There's 0:28:43.760 --> 0:28:46.640 also one that they don't comment on, Like you were 0:28:46.680 --> 0:28:50.240 saying earlier, Lauren, there occasionally in these Q segments you 0:28:50.360 --> 0:28:53.000 just see stuff going on in the background hilarious, but 0:28:53.040 --> 0:28:55.440 no one says anything. There's one point where you see 0:28:55.440 --> 0:28:58.640 a guy, a guy in a lapka walk into a 0:28:58.760 --> 0:29:01.280 phone booth and then only the phone booth just fills 0:29:01.400 --> 0:29:04.600 up with a big inflated balloon, trapping the guy against 0:29:04.680 --> 0:29:07.360 the door, and because the door pulls in on phone booth, 0:29:07.640 --> 0:29:09.640 he can't get out, and you just see him squished 0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:14.400 up against the glass, and that is hilarious. Also doesn't 0:29:14.400 --> 0:29:17.680 play any other part in the movie whatsoever. Uh. That 0:29:17.880 --> 0:29:20.160 starts to feel like it belongs more and get smart 0:29:20.320 --> 0:29:22.520 than on James. Yeah, some of these, some of these 0:29:22.560 --> 0:29:25.840 around this era started to seem like parodies of I 0:29:25.920 --> 0:29:28.000 mean even even more. At least they were being self 0:29:28.040 --> 0:29:29.640 aware because I feel like the stuff that was going 0:29:29.680 --> 0:29:33.080 on in Roger Morris time was straightforwardly like it was 0:29:33.160 --> 0:29:35.520 just It's great. It was just camp the way the 0:29:35.600 --> 0:29:39.600 old Batman series was camp. So we move on to 0:29:39.760 --> 0:29:43.800 tomorrow Never Dies that film again with Pierce Browsnon. Yep. 0:29:43.840 --> 0:29:45.400 They had a mobile phone that could act as a 0:29:45.440 --> 0:29:49.240 fingerprint scanner and as we've all mentioned, yeah, iPhone five 0:29:49.440 --> 0:29:51.720 S does that now, so we actually have technology that 0:29:51.800 --> 0:29:55.280 could do this that you know, we could easily adapt that. 0:29:55.400 --> 0:29:57.560 In fact, I'm sure there are law enforcement agencies that 0:29:57.600 --> 0:30:00.600 have adapted that technology to work in the field. Um. 0:30:00.880 --> 0:30:03.080 It also contained a lock pick in the antenna. It 0:30:03.160 --> 0:30:06.360 was an electronic lock pick, and you could put the 0:30:06.400 --> 0:30:07.880 lock pick in a lock and you press a key 0:30:07.920 --> 0:30:09.560 on the phone it would cause it to pick a 0:30:09.680 --> 0:30:15.200 lock automatically. And it also was um uh twenty volts 0:30:15.200 --> 0:30:18.440 stunned gun, so you could zap people if they wanted 0:30:18.480 --> 0:30:21.160 to run up your minutes. And it could do one 0:30:21.200 --> 0:30:24.240 other thing. It was a remote control. It was a 0:30:24.560 --> 0:30:31.160 remote control for Bonds BMW first of all BMW car. Yeah, 0:30:31.720 --> 0:30:34.160 I was a little bit irked by that too. Um. 0:30:34.520 --> 0:30:37.640 But but the part where it was a remote control 0:30:38.000 --> 0:30:42.000 that you know, could could let the car locate Bond 0:30:42.200 --> 0:30:45.560 and drive itself to him is technology that people are 0:30:45.680 --> 0:30:48.160 very much working on right now. Yeah, we've talked about 0:30:48.160 --> 0:30:51.160 autonomous cars in the past. This is truly an autonomous 0:30:51.200 --> 0:30:54.080 car that could you know, it could identify the signal 0:30:54.160 --> 0:30:56.360 where Bond was and then plan out a route and 0:30:56.560 --> 0:30:59.360 drive to him. Obviously going in a straight line would 0:30:59.360 --> 0:31:01.320 not necessary only work if there were say, you know, 0:31:01.480 --> 0:31:03.560 lakes or buildings or something in the way. So it 0:31:03.600 --> 0:31:06.000 actually has to be able to navigate right and and 0:31:06.240 --> 0:31:08.880 as that kind of technology gets better, I we were 0:31:08.920 --> 0:31:12.200 not quite there yet except an extreme prototype phase. But yeah, 0:31:12.400 --> 0:31:16.920 but yeah, Stephen on Facebook requested that one. So also 0:31:17.360 --> 0:31:19.440 this was you know, we weren't the only ones who 0:31:19.480 --> 0:31:22.200 got a little miffed about the Aston Martin going away 0:31:22.680 --> 0:31:25.360 and the BMW coming in. That ended up being a 0:31:25.720 --> 0:31:27.480 kind of a sticking point for a few people. BMW 0:31:27.600 --> 0:31:29.760 would stick around for a little bit, but uh, don't worry. 0:31:29.760 --> 0:31:32.000 If you guys love your British cars, you'll you'll get 0:31:32.040 --> 0:31:34.200 pay off a little bit later. There was also a 0:31:34.280 --> 0:31:36.800 bad guy who had a wrist band grappling hook, so 0:31:37.000 --> 0:31:39.240 it was something that you could fire from the wrist 0:31:39.280 --> 0:31:43.080 band had a little python or piton if you're British 0:31:43.440 --> 0:31:46.600 that would fly out and embed into something, and it 0:31:46.680 --> 0:31:49.680 had a high tension strength wire connected to it so 0:31:49.760 --> 0:31:52.240 you could swing on it or climb In this case 0:31:52.320 --> 0:31:54.280 it was a character who could uh use it to 0:31:54.720 --> 0:31:59.600 run down a vertical surface. Uh, you know, because that's happened. 0:31:59.600 --> 0:32:02.480 That happened and Bond movies. Um, It's one of those 0:32:02.520 --> 0:32:06.040 things that I questioned the legitimacy of only from the 0:32:06.120 --> 0:32:09.600 sense of we could make a wrist mounted device that 0:32:09.640 --> 0:32:12.360 could fire something, in fact, fire something hard enough to 0:32:12.600 --> 0:32:15.760 to hurt or kill somebody, certainly, but to fire something 0:32:15.880 --> 0:32:19.400 so hard that it embeds in a very tough material 0:32:19.560 --> 0:32:22.160 like stone and his high tensile enough that you could 0:32:22.200 --> 0:32:26.160 furthermore climb up. That's a lot of down as the 0:32:26.200 --> 0:32:28.200 case maybe exactly because I mean, not only does it 0:32:28.280 --> 0:32:30.160 have to be strong enough to to penetrate, right, it 0:32:30.200 --> 0:32:31.840 has to be strong enough to carry the weight of 0:32:31.960 --> 0:32:34.800 the line. Like. That's a lot of that's a lot 0:32:34.840 --> 0:32:36.480 of stuff you've got to figure out so that this 0:32:36.640 --> 0:32:38.040 thing will work the way it's supposed to wear. The 0:32:38.080 --> 0:32:40.320 same problem I have with some of Batman's stuff. I 0:32:40.360 --> 0:32:42.200 think that's a different podcast. I think I think we 0:32:42.240 --> 0:32:45.240 should that is a different podcast probably will do something. 0:32:45.440 --> 0:32:48.160 I think that we should call whoever created that and 0:32:48.240 --> 0:32:50.360 be like, so we have the space elevator idea that 0:32:50.400 --> 0:32:53.600 we're trying to work. Yeah, so if you've got enough 0:32:53.680 --> 0:32:57.239 of that wire that apparently is incredibly strong, let's use 0:32:57.320 --> 0:32:59.800 it for something else. Let's talk about that that moves on. 0:33:00.000 --> 0:33:02.360 Who The world is not enough? Which is I recall 0:33:02.560 --> 0:33:07.520 is James Bond's family motto? Was it? Yeah, the world 0:33:07.600 --> 0:33:11.200 is not enough. That's that's the Bond family crest. If 0:33:11.240 --> 0:33:13.760 I'm if I'm not mistaken, I could be. I'm totally 0:33:13.800 --> 0:33:17.760 speaking from memory here. It was made another pierced brass 0:33:17.760 --> 0:33:20.640 and in film, all right, we had yet another wrist 0:33:20.720 --> 0:33:24.840 watch with the grappling hook. And and if they also 0:33:24.920 --> 0:33:29.400 had eyeglasses that incorporate X ray technology, so you could 0:33:29.520 --> 0:33:32.560 look at people and turn on the X rayspects and 0:33:32.760 --> 0:33:34.840 they were X rayspects where you could actually see if 0:33:34.880 --> 0:33:37.400 someone was carrying a gun. I'm sure Bond also used 0:33:37.440 --> 0:33:40.480 it for other purposes. I feel like that's likely. Um. 0:33:40.720 --> 0:33:44.640 And of course, again miniaturization of the technology is an issue. 0:33:44.800 --> 0:33:48.880 And also the whole cancer thing where radiation is radiation, Yeah, 0:33:48.960 --> 0:33:52.440 it's it's ionizing radiation, which means that it's not good 0:33:52.520 --> 0:33:55.280 for us to be around non ionizing that's okay for 0:33:55.360 --> 0:33:59.560 the most part, I think not okay. Yeah, However, there 0:33:59.600 --> 0:34:02.720 are some infrared glasses that exist and can be used 0:34:02.800 --> 0:34:06.520 for for similar nifty stuff. Just this era of vascular 0:34:06.640 --> 0:34:10.000 imaging goggles were released that can help medical professionals like 0:34:10.080 --> 0:34:14.160 locate a vein for for blood samples or etcetera. Pretty awesome, 0:34:14.160 --> 0:34:16.319 Which is pretty awesome. Um and and of course we've 0:34:16.320 --> 0:34:18.920 got photon cameras that can help us see around corners. 0:34:18.960 --> 0:34:21.640 We talked about that in a Forred Thinking episode about 0:34:21.680 --> 0:34:24.360 how it measures the time it takes for light to 0:34:24.400 --> 0:34:27.479 come back around, Like a portion of the light hits 0:34:27.520 --> 0:34:29.920 an open doorway and goes into a room, and some 0:34:30.080 --> 0:34:32.479 of that light gets reflected back, hits the doorway again 0:34:32.560 --> 0:34:35.800 gets reflected back toward the camera, and by measuring the 0:34:36.040 --> 0:34:39.600 the amount of time those individual photons took to go 0:34:39.800 --> 0:34:43.200 out and come back, a camera can actually reconstruct what 0:34:43.480 --> 0:34:46.959 is inside the room next door without having a clear 0:34:47.040 --> 0:34:49.919 line of sight inside it, which is crazy, but it's real. 0:34:51.120 --> 0:34:53.640 It's not X ray glasses. It's never going to be 0:34:53.800 --> 0:34:56.400 X ray glasses. I don't. Yeah, but I saw on 0:34:56.440 --> 0:34:58.839 the back of this comic book is guys holding up 0:34:58.880 --> 0:35:00.600 his hand. He's got this crazy he looked on his 0:35:00.719 --> 0:35:04.279 face looks like Drew Carey. However, things that I think 0:35:04.400 --> 0:35:08.760 are definitely up and coming um bagpipes that can hold 0:35:08.920 --> 0:35:12.440 machine guns and flamethrowers. Look, aren't bagpipes deadly enough already? 0:35:12.719 --> 0:35:15.840 Do we really need to add more killing power to bagpipes? 0:35:16.040 --> 0:35:21.439 It up with q okay or should I say? Ah? Yeah? 0:35:21.520 --> 0:35:23.640 That was another one of those things seen in Queues 0:35:23.680 --> 0:35:25.800 lab as, this guy with a set of bagpipes that 0:35:25.840 --> 0:35:27.800 turn into a machine gun in flamethrower, because you know, 0:35:28.000 --> 0:35:30.360 that's that's exactly what we need, are more highlanders with 0:35:30.640 --> 0:35:35.080 high high caliber weapons, all right. They also this was 0:35:35.160 --> 0:35:36.800 also one of those things that when I saw it, 0:35:36.880 --> 0:35:39.279 I was like, this is this is hilarious, And yet 0:35:39.360 --> 0:35:42.440 there's a real world technology that's similar to what was 0:35:42.480 --> 0:35:46.200 shown on the screen. So James Bond's wearing the ski jacket. 0:35:46.880 --> 0:35:50.000 There's this whole chase scene where he's driving what's essentially 0:35:50.080 --> 0:35:52.960 a snowmobile with a parachute and a fan on the 0:35:53.000 --> 0:35:55.400 back of it so that can fly in places, and 0:35:55.480 --> 0:35:57.320 he's being chased by bad guys who are also on 0:35:57.440 --> 0:36:01.560 these things. And then he and a lady are on 0:36:01.760 --> 0:36:06.320 this this icy area where uh and the spot above 0:36:06.400 --> 0:36:09.560 them is breaking apart. It's gonna cause like a little avalanche. 0:36:09.560 --> 0:36:11.920 It's going to crush them in a second. And so 0:36:12.080 --> 0:36:16.000 quickly James Bond grabs the lady and uh the and 0:36:16.239 --> 0:36:19.399 hits something on his jacket which inflates this ball around them. 0:36:19.560 --> 0:36:23.000 So they get surrounded by this big inflatable ball and 0:36:23.239 --> 0:36:25.440 uh and sort of like a zorb, one of those 0:36:25.640 --> 0:36:27.480 big inflat and ones that you could run around inside, 0:36:27.840 --> 0:36:30.960 similar to that yeah, yeah, big inflat hamster ball, and 0:36:31.080 --> 0:36:34.719 that ends up providing shelter when everything falls on top 0:36:34.760 --> 0:36:36.840 of them so that they don't get crushed by the 0:36:36.920 --> 0:36:40.200 snow and ice that falls. Um. And at first, when 0:36:40.280 --> 0:36:42.080 you look at this, you're like, oh, come on, that's 0:36:42.120 --> 0:36:45.719 just so silly. However, it's actually kind of similar. There's this, 0:36:45.880 --> 0:36:49.319 um this cool yeah just announced this year. I think 0:36:49.360 --> 0:36:53.279 there's this inflatable helmet. Yeah, it looks like it's uh, 0:36:53.480 --> 0:36:56.759 this kind of bulky scarf that you would wear. Uh, 0:36:56.920 --> 0:37:00.120 it's the hole ding and it's uh, it's an air 0:37:00.200 --> 0:37:02.719 bag for cyclists and the idea is that it has 0:37:02.840 --> 0:37:08.280 this inflatable helmet that can expand rapidly if it detects 0:37:08.320 --> 0:37:12.279 a sudden change in your acceleration and cover your head 0:37:12.360 --> 0:37:15.640 in this inflatable bag, so that way, if you have 0:37:15.800 --> 0:37:18.160 a crash, your head is protected, even if you're not 0:37:18.280 --> 0:37:20.800 wearing even if you don't want to wear a standard 0:37:22.440 --> 0:37:24.759 So kind of cool, I mean in the sense that 0:37:25.160 --> 0:37:28.400 there is technology that's being developed right now that's similar 0:37:28.480 --> 0:37:31.080 to this, this idea that was proposed in the movie. 0:37:31.160 --> 0:37:34.160 I would think that anything potentially sharp like ice might 0:37:34.360 --> 0:37:37.360 be a bad idea for something like that. Also, the 0:37:37.480 --> 0:37:39.960 material would have to be able to withstand puncture. I 0:37:40.000 --> 0:37:42.800 also think it would it would require a lot of 0:37:42.920 --> 0:37:46.520 pressure on the inside of that that inflatable object to 0:37:46.640 --> 0:37:51.360 withstand the huge amount of weight of an avalanche like 0:37:51.440 --> 0:37:54.000 it would it would need to be mostly rigid right 0:37:54.080 --> 0:37:57.120 when it couldn't be like the bouncy bouncy castle sort 0:37:57.120 --> 0:37:59.560 of thing or just crush you. We've got more to 0:37:59.640 --> 0:38:02.920 say a spy tech, but first let's take another quick break. 0:38:10.280 --> 0:38:14.800 Moving on to Die Another Day film, um, and that 0:38:14.880 --> 0:38:17.400 would be our last one with Pierce Brosnan. Yep. And 0:38:17.520 --> 0:38:20.200 this one, James Bond gets a ring that can emit 0:38:20.280 --> 0:38:23.440 an ultra high frequency single that is powerful enough to 0:38:23.480 --> 0:38:30.320 shutter bulletproof glass. Which okay, so materials have this resonant frequency, 0:38:30.480 --> 0:38:32.840 right that if you match the resonant frequency, it causes 0:38:32.880 --> 0:38:36.000 the material to start to vibrate. And MythBusters did a 0:38:36.080 --> 0:38:38.000 whole thing on this where they showed, you know, the 0:38:38.040 --> 0:38:41.240 whole idea of being able to shatter a a wine 0:38:41.320 --> 0:38:43.920 glass with your voice if you're able to sing at 0:38:43.960 --> 0:38:46.520 the right note, and they showed that at the right 0:38:46.920 --> 0:38:50.000 level of uh, not not just the right frequency, but 0:38:50.040 --> 0:38:53.160 the right volume, the right intensity, you could actually make 0:38:53.200 --> 0:38:55.560 this happen. You could. Then they shot into slow motion 0:38:55.560 --> 0:38:58.080 where you could actually see the glass deforming as it 0:38:58.160 --> 0:39:01.840 was shaking. Is really cool. However, squeezing that amount of 0:39:02.120 --> 0:39:05.200 energy into a ring is going to be difficult. Yeah, 0:39:05.400 --> 0:39:08.440 being able to project that much of volume so that 0:39:08.560 --> 0:39:11.040 you were able to shatter something like a pane of glass, 0:39:11.760 --> 0:39:14.160 because I mean, if you ever watch these videos, glass 0:39:14.200 --> 0:39:18.279 can deform a surprising amount before it breaks, a really weird, 0:39:18.400 --> 0:39:21.400 scary amount. Yeah, when slow motion you look at you like, 0:39:21.480 --> 0:39:25.280 that doesn't even look real, So it would I certainly 0:39:25.360 --> 0:39:27.560 don't think you could pack that kind of wallop in 0:39:27.640 --> 0:39:29.840 a ring. No, I mean you could punch the glass 0:39:29.840 --> 0:39:31.520 of course, of its bulletproof, You're probably just going to 0:39:31.560 --> 0:39:36.680 break your hand. But anyway, the basic concept is sound. 0:39:36.960 --> 0:39:40.520 The execution is questionable, not so much. Yeah, the Aston 0:39:40.600 --> 0:39:45.279 Martin in this one, Um okay, So so we have 0:39:45.520 --> 0:39:48.720 basically we had an invisible car. Yeah, the Aston Martin Vanquish, 0:39:48.800 --> 0:39:52.360 also sometimes called the Aston Martin Vanish. There's a car that, 0:39:52.560 --> 0:39:54.560 according to the film, the idea was that had lots 0:39:54.600 --> 0:39:57.640 of these little tiny cameras all around the car, and 0:39:58.239 --> 0:40:01.120 what would happen is that it would reject it would 0:40:01.280 --> 0:40:05.279 capture whatever's coming on like oncoming and projected onto the 0:40:05.360 --> 0:40:07.719 surface of the car itself. There for doing kind of 0:40:07.800 --> 0:40:10.600 an invisibility cloak sort of. The idea being that if 0:40:10.719 --> 0:40:13.480 if you're looking at the car, you're actually seeing what's 0:40:13.520 --> 0:40:15.400 on the other side of the car as opposed the 0:40:15.480 --> 0:40:18.840 car itself. This worked for everything, not just the not 0:40:19.000 --> 0:40:22.800 just the car's body, but the wheels, the glass, the windows, 0:40:22.840 --> 0:40:26.800 the windshield, everything was was completely cloaked and when it moved, 0:40:26.880 --> 0:40:29.279 it moved like you know, like the clingon Starship and 0:40:29.360 --> 0:40:32.080 star trek right right, um, And okay, so I mean 0:40:32.160 --> 0:40:35.640 researchers and artists have in fact come up with invisibility 0:40:35.719 --> 0:40:39.800 cloaks that work on similar principles, but not at Aston 0:40:39.880 --> 0:40:43.440 Martin road speeds really and and to be fair to 0:40:43.560 --> 0:40:46.440 James Bond, at first, when you see this, the car 0:40:46.600 --> 0:40:49.319 is not moving, it's still. But then it does start 0:40:49.360 --> 0:40:51.640 to move and it's moving perfectly fine, like you see 0:40:51.680 --> 0:40:54.840 the shimmer as it moves. But it's not like, you know, 0:40:54.960 --> 0:40:56.680 it's not like not like, it's not like the stuff 0:40:56.719 --> 0:40:59.080 on the car is lagging behind three seconds from what 0:40:59.320 --> 0:41:02.360 is actually around it, all right, right, um, right now. 0:41:02.400 --> 0:41:04.040 The best technology for this kind of thing is on 0:41:04.120 --> 0:41:07.400 the micrometer scale, you know, carbon nanotube stuff like that. 0:41:07.480 --> 0:41:09.040 And also a lot of the stuff we think of 0:41:09.080 --> 0:41:12.520 as invisibility cloaks right now is really for bands of 0:41:12.600 --> 0:41:16.399 light that we personally cannot see. It's just that from 0:41:16.440 --> 0:41:19.120 a laboratory standpoint, certain types of light will pass through 0:41:19.239 --> 0:41:22.000 as opposed to reflecting off. It's just not in the 0:41:22.080 --> 0:41:26.440 visible spectrum. What do you yeah? And and that was 0:41:26.520 --> 0:41:29.839 a request from a couple of people on Facebook, Richard 0:41:29.920 --> 0:41:32.800 and Monty. Now it also of course had your standard 0:41:32.920 --> 0:41:36.879 James Bond equipment objector seat, which in this film, James 0:41:36.920 --> 0:41:40.120 Bond uses to flip the car from being upside down 0:41:40.160 --> 0:41:42.920 on its hood back to being right side up. The 0:41:43.000 --> 0:41:48.320 objector seat provides the flippy flip. Yeah. Yeah, MythBusters tested 0:41:48.400 --> 0:41:50.040 part of that as part of that that episode that 0:41:50.080 --> 0:41:54.040 they did about and missed that part. I totally forgot 0:41:54.080 --> 0:41:55.680 that part of the You know, I don't think I've 0:41:55.719 --> 0:41:58.319 ever seen Die another Day. I've seen the clips, right, 0:41:58.360 --> 0:42:01.360 I've seen the clips of this particular scene because and 0:42:01.440 --> 0:42:05.080 I just remember yelling, oh, come on, and then I 0:42:05.200 --> 0:42:10.600 had the standard you know, machine gun torpedoes right right, yeah, 0:42:10.680 --> 0:42:13.120 all that stuff that you know James Bond has he 0:42:13.160 --> 0:42:16.640 can't leave home without. So moving on, we've got uh, well, 0:42:16.760 --> 0:42:20.040 you got the boring Bond right Casino Royale with this 0:42:20.840 --> 0:42:25.520 Daniel Craig person. This this was a two thousand six films. 0:42:25.600 --> 0:42:29.600 He's dreamy, I can't lie. So yeah, there's a new 0:42:29.640 --> 0:42:32.600 West and Martin in this one, the dbs V twelve. 0:42:33.239 --> 0:42:35.920 She also had a whole bunch of high tech, uh 0:42:36.160 --> 0:42:38.440 first aid gear that was all stored in the glove compartment. 0:42:38.520 --> 0:42:41.320 So nothing like super Crazy in this one. And a 0:42:41.400 --> 0:42:43.040 lot of this was the idea of going back to 0:42:43.200 --> 0:42:46.200 James Bond and kind of grounding the character a little 0:42:46.239 --> 0:42:48.600 bit more, making a little more gritty. Yeah. I I 0:42:48.719 --> 0:42:51.640 liked this entire recent reboot with with Daniel Craig. I 0:42:51.800 --> 0:42:53.680 thought it was a little bit it's a little bit 0:42:53.680 --> 0:42:56.160 over odd at times, but that's okay. But and they 0:42:56.239 --> 0:42:59.360 still have cutting edge technology and in some cases cutting 0:42:59.400 --> 0:43:01.880 edge technology that outstrips what we can currently do. But 0:43:02.000 --> 0:43:05.799 that's not it's not so much a as goofy, yeah, 0:43:05.840 --> 0:43:08.680 and it's not as usually right right. Um. One of 0:43:08.719 --> 0:43:11.040 the other bits of tech from this movie was an 0:43:11.120 --> 0:43:14.320 implanted microchip that could act as both a homing device 0:43:14.480 --> 0:43:19.359 and a like a like a biometric monitor um which 0:43:19.880 --> 0:43:22.000 also could send that info back out to m I 0:43:22.080 --> 0:43:24.840 six Yeah, which again is a little a little tricky, 0:43:24.920 --> 0:43:27.240 like how do you create a transmitter with the size 0:43:27.280 --> 0:43:30.480 of a pencil racer that can also transmit this stuff. 0:43:30.640 --> 0:43:33.960 Not that there aren't, you know, implantable technologies that that 0:43:34.080 --> 0:43:36.560 are totally dissimilar to this. We do have things that 0:43:36.600 --> 0:43:39.480 are similar, but they work on very very short range. 0:43:40.080 --> 0:43:42.200 The idea is that's when you can actually monitor the 0:43:42.239 --> 0:43:44.440 patient in person, as opposed to when when you can 0:43:44.719 --> 0:43:48.560 kind of poke a instrument correctly at there are rather 0:43:48.640 --> 0:43:53.000 than rather than you know, miles away. Yeah, there was 0:43:53.040 --> 0:43:55.839 also a touch screen table in m I six, which 0:43:56.719 --> 0:43:59.960 you know, Microsoft had something like as of two thous 0:44:00.120 --> 0:44:03.080 an eight. Yeah, the Surface table. The you know before 0:44:03.120 --> 0:44:06.120 there was the Surface tablet. Dear friends, there was the 0:44:06.200 --> 0:44:08.920 Microsoft Surface table, which is when when they called the 0:44:09.000 --> 0:44:12.200 tablet Microsoft Surface again. That was also when I threw 0:44:12.239 --> 0:44:13.840 my hands up in the air and said, oh, come on, 0:44:14.719 --> 0:44:16.479 I don't do it just to James Bond. I also 0:44:16.520 --> 0:44:18.480 do it to Microsoft. What I said, you already have 0:44:18.640 --> 0:44:21.680 a product called the Surface and it's a table. It's confusing. 0:44:22.120 --> 0:44:23.839 It's fun for me to write about this. You're making 0:44:23.880 --> 0:44:26.400 my articles not be relevant anymore. You got to you 0:44:26.440 --> 0:44:29.080 got to play with one of those one of those. Yes, yeah, 0:44:29.120 --> 0:44:31.040 they had one where they was on it was on 0:44:31.120 --> 0:44:33.879 display that back then Microsoft had a presence at c Yes, 0:44:34.040 --> 0:44:36.000 they used to have a jungle booth and they had 0:44:36.040 --> 0:44:38.000 the Microsoft Surface there and you could play with it. 0:44:38.040 --> 0:44:40.239 In fact, there were a couple of different booths that 0:44:40.360 --> 0:44:44.080 had a Microsoft Surface. I think um oh it was 0:44:44.160 --> 0:44:47.759 like Intel or something else also had one so the 0:44:47.840 --> 0:44:50.600 neat thing about the surface was had the multi touch capability, 0:44:50.640 --> 0:44:53.000 and this was before you saw that in everything, right, 0:44:53.440 --> 0:44:56.200 So it was one of those um implementations that was 0:44:56.239 --> 0:44:59.160 really cool. So this this was kind of predicting that 0:44:59.280 --> 0:45:04.880 as well. Moving on to Quantum of Solace, Craig's second 0:45:05.000 --> 0:45:07.759 film that came out in two thousand eight. Uh So, 0:45:07.960 --> 0:45:11.439 and again we have another magical telephone in a way, 0:45:11.520 --> 0:45:13.800 so this one could create a composite photo of a 0:45:13.840 --> 0:45:16.879 subject even if Bond only got like a profile shot. 0:45:16.920 --> 0:45:19.240 So if you got a shot from the side of someone, 0:45:19.600 --> 0:45:22.680 this phone could reconstruct that person's entire face, including the 0:45:22.760 --> 0:45:25.080 side that was not facing the camera. And this this 0:45:25.280 --> 0:45:28.440 is one of my personal pet peeves. And and it's 0:45:28.480 --> 0:45:30.880 that whole zoom and enhanced concept where I'm like, no, 0:45:31.080 --> 0:45:34.200 if the camera hasn't recorded that information, it cannot give you. 0:45:34.600 --> 0:45:36.320 The best we can do is assume that you have 0:45:36.400 --> 0:45:41.719 an incredibly symmetrical face. And therefore, if like James Bond, 0:45:41.840 --> 0:45:46.000 encounters you know, mostly supermodels, then in that universe it's 0:45:46.000 --> 0:45:51.640 actually very effective. To be fair, Lauren, James Bond does encountermodels. 0:45:51.920 --> 0:45:54.120 This is what I'm saying, you know, that's that's okay. 0:45:54.719 --> 0:45:57.000 Never never mind where if James Bond took a picture 0:45:57.040 --> 0:45:59.600 of me and profile, however, it would you'd be like, Wow, 0:45:59.640 --> 0:46:02.400 who's that devastatingly handsome gentleman? And then you see me 0:46:02.440 --> 0:46:04.560 and like that cannot be the guy that's in this 0:46:04.680 --> 0:46:07.760 picture because that guy's nose is all crooked and stuff. 0:46:08.280 --> 0:46:11.320 I had a tough childhood. Um yeah, anyway, it was. 0:46:11.600 --> 0:46:14.200 It's not that this technology is totally beyond us, but 0:46:14.320 --> 0:46:16.160 it is one of those things where I don't I 0:46:16.520 --> 0:46:20.640 would highly suspect the reliability of any picture that is 0:46:20.840 --> 0:46:26.200 completely created from just a portion of someone's face. Um. Now, 0:46:26.440 --> 0:46:30.040 we have seen interesting scanning technology with people using something 0:46:30.120 --> 0:46:32.919 like the Connect where they do a very slow turn 0:46:33.040 --> 0:46:35.160 and it gives a full three D scan of a 0:46:35.239 --> 0:46:37.719 person's head. But in that case, you're talking about the 0:46:37.800 --> 0:46:40.960 device that's actually getting data from all points, right, it's 0:46:41.000 --> 0:46:44.239 not just one side all right. Then when it comes 0:46:44.320 --> 0:46:48.160 up to Skyfall, the as of right now, most recent 0:46:49.000 --> 0:46:51.080 film in the James Bond franchise that came out in 0:46:51.920 --> 0:46:56.560 and also starred Mr Craig, Mr Dreamy Craig and um 0:46:56.760 --> 0:47:00.359 and and this this film was very much as sing 0:47:00.520 --> 0:47:04.840 that kind of stripped down esthetic versus especially some of 0:47:04.920 --> 0:47:08.440 the earlier goofy or nineteen eighties films. Um uh and 0:47:08.600 --> 0:47:10.360 and so they kind of make a bit out of 0:47:10.400 --> 0:47:12.800 it when when bonding the new queue made up for 0:47:12.880 --> 0:47:16.680 the first time, umu Q gives him this little box 0:47:16.719 --> 0:47:20.000 and all it contains is a Walter p p K 0:47:20.800 --> 0:47:24.080 and and and a little radio transmitter and and bonds 0:47:24.160 --> 0:47:29.480 like that's it, like like not exactly Christmas, is it? However, 0:47:29.640 --> 0:47:34.680 his his gun does have a a scanner on the handle, 0:47:34.800 --> 0:47:37.000 so it only bond can fire it, all right, right, 0:47:37.080 --> 0:47:39.920 it's a little pomp print reader thing, yeah, which which 0:47:39.960 --> 0:47:43.359 which is technically possible, although it would be harder um 0:47:43.880 --> 0:47:45.719 on a on a mechanical device than it would have 0:47:45.800 --> 0:47:48.120 been on on a digital So if you have some 0:47:48.239 --> 0:47:51.560 sort of digital safety, digitize the safety or something. If 0:47:51.600 --> 0:47:54.120 you if you make the safety completely separate from a 0:47:54.239 --> 0:47:57.840 mechanical approach and you make it an electronic approach, I 0:47:57.920 --> 0:48:00.239 could see that like if it's it's a gay aged 0:48:00.400 --> 0:48:04.319 unless the quote unquote right person is holding the gun, um, 0:48:04.600 --> 0:48:07.120 that would That's the only way I could imagine that 0:48:07.239 --> 0:48:09.600 making sense. I'll give that one to cue um and it. 0:48:09.760 --> 0:48:13.080 Also we also see a return of the Aston Martin 0:48:13.200 --> 0:48:16.359 dB five um, like the like the super classic one 0:48:16.440 --> 0:48:19.360 with all of the super classic stuff pretty much from Goldfinger, 0:48:19.480 --> 0:48:21.480 which you know, to be fair, Skyfall had a lot 0:48:21.640 --> 0:48:25.000 of little nods to some of the earlier Bond films, 0:48:25.040 --> 0:48:27.719 like you you would actually you know, see examples of 0:48:27.880 --> 0:48:30.600 some of the stuff that appeared in earlier Bond films 0:48:30.680 --> 0:48:34.040 just kind of uh, surreptitiously hidden in the in the scene, 0:48:34.400 --> 0:48:36.640 not something that was you know, paraded out in front 0:48:36.680 --> 0:48:39.160 of you, but that That's one of those cool things 0:48:39.239 --> 0:48:42.759 is seeing them pay homage to this rich past that 0:48:43.120 --> 0:48:46.320 James Bond has accumulated, even as they go forward and 0:48:46.440 --> 0:48:51.040 potentially go back and and recreate some of these older stories. 0:48:51.600 --> 0:48:53.520 So it's possible that we'll see some of these older 0:48:53.600 --> 0:48:57.440 stories reimagined in new form um. Some of them may 0:48:57.560 --> 0:49:00.960 just be completely written, you know, from scratch. Some of 0:49:00.960 --> 0:49:03.120 the James Bond films are not based off of any 0:49:03.160 --> 0:49:06.120 Fleming novel. But maybe some of the future ones will 0:49:06.160 --> 0:49:08.719 be just reimagined versions of that. Yeah, and I'm really 0:49:08.760 --> 0:49:11.239 curious to see how I mean, as we keep saying, 0:49:11.480 --> 0:49:14.239 as we have been saying throughout these two episodes. Um, 0:49:14.320 --> 0:49:16.720 you know, a lot of this stuff that was crazy 0:49:16.800 --> 0:49:20.040 revolutionary sci fi tech in the nineteen sixties is stuff 0:49:20.080 --> 0:49:23.480 that's on our smartphones today. That wraps up this classic 0:49:23.520 --> 0:49:26.000 episode of tech Stuff. Hope you enjoyed it. If you 0:49:26.120 --> 0:49:29.480 have suggestions for future topics of tech stuff, whether they 0:49:29.520 --> 0:49:32.320 are classic or otherwise, let me know. 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