WEBVTT - TechStuff Bonds With Spy Tech Part Two 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:07.240 Get in touch with technology with tex Stuff from how 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:14.040 stuff works dot com. Stay there and welcome to tech Stuff. 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:17.160 I'm Jonathan Strickland and I'm Lauren Boltom. And when last 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:19.960 we left you, James Vond was dangling over a cliff 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:21.920 and what could he do? But he's one of those 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:25.959 amazing gadgets. We're doing a two part series on the 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:31.479 amazing tech, sometimes literally incredible tech that is featured in 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:34.400 the James Bond books and films. And I believe you 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.520 had a little bit of a kind of a historical 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:39.720 tidbit to kind of wet our appetites before we jump 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.240 into the movies again, right, yeah, yeah, okay. So supposedly 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:48.040 John D, the sixteenth century science guy John D may 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:50.800 have been the first double O seven to perform espionage 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:53.120 in the Royal Service. He served as an advisor to 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.880 the Queen and reportedly signed his messages with two zero's 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:59.280 symbolizing his job as the Queen's eyes um, followed by 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.760 a seven with the top drawn out over the zeros 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.800 that the number seven reportedly having some kind of occult 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.000 meaning to d Um. So his code name, if you will, 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:11.480 was double O seven Yeah, and that you can uh 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:14.080 find and we actually have an article all about James 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:16.360 Bond at How Stuff Works. You can learn more about 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.560 the background and the supposed mythology behind it. By the way, 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.640 I've got another trivia tidbit about Dr John D. Yeah, 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.720 did you know that? According to HP Lovecraft, Dr John 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.200 D was the man responsible for translating the Necronomicon into English, 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:33.480 although that translation was never found I did not. Okay, 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.399 so let's jump into the James Bond series. Now, when 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.680 we last we left off, we had worked our way 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:42.360 up to Moonraker, the nineteen seventy nine film, and yes 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.160 we are in the middle of Roger Moore's um the 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.640 best James Bond ever. As I mentioned in the last one, 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:52.640 George lazenby close second Roger Moore. Man, you can I 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.559 could just hear the frustrated squeals of of James Bond 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:01.720 fans everywhere. Third placed Timothy Dalton, just just trying not 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:06.040 to kill you with their minds. Oh it's fine, it's fine. 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:10.400 Uh yeah, So Moonraker head, this was the era where 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:15.120 the Roger Moore era, where the gadgets really started going. Yeah. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.160 We keep in mind Lauren and I met before we 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.240 came in to record this where we cut a bunch 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:22.680 of gadgets because we just for time, there's just too many. 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:26.320 And in this particular era alone, I think like sixty 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:30.239 of our cuts came from these, right. So starting off, 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.359 we have a wrist dart gun with poison tipped darts 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.400 are also armor piercing darts, so he had two different types. 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.760 And there are lots of electronic dart guns that have 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:45.200 been created over the pasta including a well, there's one 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:46.840 that was not even this was an electric It was 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.160 actually a bullet one. It was a gun gun. There 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.959 was a glove mounted gun, so the barrel of the 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.720 gun was actually on the palm side, and it was 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.160 designed so that when you would make a fist and 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:01.359 punch something, the gun in which the barrel would hopefully 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.639 clear your knuckles, would fire off. And the idea being 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:06.600 that it was developed in World War two by the 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:08.400 OSS and the idea is that you know, if you 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.240 were to create this sort of thing and show a 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.320 person punching someone else and the other person dies as 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.480 a result of being punched, it would scare the heck 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.120 out of your enemies, like, wow, they are so strong. 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:23.160 But here's the thing. Didn't work so well, so hardly 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.760 anyone ever fired one of these things. There are some 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:31.480 interesting pictures online of the various gun gloves. Uh So 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:34.320 there have been people who have tried to make this 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.240 kind of technology work, but no one's really done it 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.920 in such a way that it was ever practical. So 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.320 risk dart gun not necessarily practical. There's probably other ways 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:50.520 you could, you know, starts out other kind of impractical thing. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:54.600 A cigarette case with an X ray safe cracking device. Yeah, 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.520 I'm not sure how you would fit X ray scanning 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:02.040 technology into the form factor of a cigarette. Sounds impossible. 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.920 It sounds pretty hard to me. Yeah, also had a wristwatch. 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.240 There are a lot of wristwatches in James Bond. That's 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:10.760 one of the things that we ended up cutting some 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:12.680 of them because there's so many. They were like, yeah, 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.640 we we've already. But anyway, this particular wristwatch had a 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:19.440 detonator refused and an explosive charge built into it, which, again, 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:21.840 that's a lot of stuff to pack into a tiny 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:26.359 form factor. Now I can totally understand a detonator in 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.640 a watch. A transmitter, that's something that I could, you know, 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.240 especially once you get into the transistor era, and we're 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.240 well into it now in nine. Transistors are definitely a 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.760 thing when you get into that miniaturization where you press 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:40.520 a button and it sends out a radio signal. I 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.440 totally get that. But being able to build in all 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:47.120 this other stuff so that it can contain everything is 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.960 a little on the science fiction side. Yeah, that's that's 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.680 dicey in terms of physics. There was also something showing 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:57.440 off in Queues laboratory that disturbed me. Are you are 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.960 you talking about the Mexican machine gun? Yeah, Mexican machine gun. 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:05.880 And so this is problematic so that while showing what 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.279 you know, a lot of the scenes show Q walking 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:12.520 through the laboratory and some outlandishly ridiculous gadget is going 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.400 off in the background. Yeah, just completely without comment, just 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.359 that's just happening. Occasionally they might stop and oh have 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.920 you seen this double O seven? It's a Mexican machine 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.280 gun and it looks like a well, it looks like 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:27.480 a mannequin. It is a mannequin of a person wearing 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.240 like a sombrero and taking a CS to like like 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.599 a troubling lye racist mannequin. Yeah, and then the chest 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:38.080 opens up, revealing a machine gun that fires off, So yeah, 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.520 that was a little problematic. And then there, of course, 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:44.359 is the character of Holly Goodhead, who had lots of 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:48.120 gadget She was a CIA agent in Moonraker, and she 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.960 had her own weapons, which included a pen, a notebook, 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:56.159 and perfume. It was a poison pen, it was it 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.960 was a dart shooting note back all women, it was flamethrower. 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.080 Every I'm sure you have some at your desk. It's 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:07.320 probably pink too, because we all know what ladies like, right, Yeah. No, 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:11.560 the the to be fair, the James Bond franchise has 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.040 never been accused of being forward thinking as far as 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.520 women are concerned. Yeah, that's that's or or race when 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:21.160 it comes to that. Yes, no, there's some terrible examples, 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.720 but we're what of course, we're constantly on the gadgets, 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:27.080 not the not the social commentary. So moving up to nine, 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:31.240 we're still with Roger Moore. Still yeah, for your eyes only, Yeah, no, 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.160 it was not just for my eyes, Lauren, it was 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.359 for the world's eyes. Oh, you're talking about the title 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.440 of the movie. Okay, yes, for your eyes. On the yes, um, 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.960 they introduced a computer like device called the ideograph in 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.520 this which was interesting. The idea was that you could 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:48.120 create a composite picture of a person by adding or 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.880 removing distinguishing features on a computer. Yeah, so it's kind 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.240 of like, no, the nose is bigger, No, no, the 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.840 eyes are wider. Set that kind of thing, which is 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.440 totally something we can do now. Yeah. Yeah, facial composition 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.800 techniques have been in use for for decades and decades 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:04.320 at this point, but um, I don't think that we 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.800 got a digital version until the late nineteen eighties. So 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.520 this is kind of again another sort of predictive technology, 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.960 but it's certainly something that has been used since. And 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.440 we still have you know, uh like a sketch artists 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.400 who work with police departments too. But now there are 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.600 also these technologies that let people uh kind of mix 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:25.120 and match basic features where you get a general idea 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.880 of what someone might look like based upon a description. Yeah, 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:33.720 it's it's great, uh, great artistic technology. Um. Also in 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.720 this film, we had an update to the communications first watch. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:38.720 I think last we had kind of a ticker tape 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.600 sort of thing going on, um, and this one could 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.280 receive digital messages and be used like a walkie talkie, 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.960 which is fantastic because it meant that Roger Moore could 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.680 clear out all that extra space and his hollow arm 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:53.239 for the battery that would be necessary to run this device. Um, 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.640 you know, for those who don't get that joke, you 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.440 need to listen to the other podcast, the other episode. 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.400 Of course, these days that's totally a thing that we 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.840 have in pockets all the time. But but yes, at 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.920 the time, it was still a little bit forward thinking. 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.600 We wouldn't start to get wrist watches with that kind 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.680 of capacity until the late eighties at the very earliest. 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.000 And of course we you know, we've talked all about 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.040 smart watches in previous episodes, including the most famous one, 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:22.040 the Dick Tracy wrist radio, and there have been lots 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.600 of people who have created various kinds of of watches 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.280 that were also communicators. But now we're finally getting into 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.960 the era where they aren't super bulky or have you know, 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:35.040 no battery life whatsoever. So definitely a little ahead of 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.640 its time there, but supposed to be. Moving on to 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:42.080 the next Roger Moore film, nineteen eight three's Octopusy, which 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:46.080 I saw in a drive in movie theater. I remember 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.760 distinctly going to see this movie and thinking, even as 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:53.880 a kid in three same year that Return of the 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:57.960 Jedi came out, even as a kid, thinking this is silly. 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.719 It's this I would I would argue that Octopus E 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.559 is the silliest of the James Bond. It certainly had 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:08.640 some of the silliest examples of technology and and uh camouflage, 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.360 with the possible exception of a car that we'll talk 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.280 about towards the end of this episode. But for one thing, 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.680 they had the wristwatch and pen combo that this part 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.080 wasn't so silly. The idea was that the pen had 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.280 surveillance technology like a microphone in it that you would 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.600 surreptitiously leave someplace and then you could pick up the 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.400 transmission on the wristwatch and listen in on what was 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.720 going on. Not that crazy an idea actually, so I 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.560 kind of get that one. Uh. Also, the pen had 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.440 some nitric and hydrochloric acid in it that could clearly 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.720 dissolve stuff, because occasionally have to dissolve a bad guy's 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.679 face and you might not have the ark of the 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:46.000 Covenant in your youth. Uh. So then there was a 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:50.280 weapon that one of the nameless henchman in this movie 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:54.480 used there was a buzz saw slash yo yo type thing. Yeah, well, 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:55.960 I mean it was. I don't think that it was 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.040 intended to be a yo yo. I think it was 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.640 purely for weapon purposes. I don't think that the bad 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.040 guy was trying to trick anyone with it. It wasn't 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:05.880 trying to walk the dog or but it wasn't. I mean, 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.800 it was a buzz saw that had yo yo functionality. Yeah, 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:12.600 so the they thought ahead a little bit. So the 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.400 there was like a handpiece this guy wore where he 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.520 could hold the blade like a saw blade, you know, 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.720 and like a saw blade that's on a cable. But uh, 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:23.600 and he was the guy who was using it was 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.600 mostly using it from above. He was on a level 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:28.880 higher up than where James Bond was. He could kind 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:30.920 of throw it down and have it come back into 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.360 your hands, right and it would spin on the end 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.480 of its ropes, sort of like a yo yo would 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:39.280 if you if you did have a sleep just you 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:43.679 know it's it's called sleeping. But it could cut through 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:45.640 like all this stuff, Like it cuts through a table 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.600 that's got like a big fruit plate on it, because 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:51.600 you know, that's visually interesting Um, And truth is, unless 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.800 there was a motor that was turning that saw blade, 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:55.880 that just wouldn't work because as soon as it made 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.920 contact with something solid, it would start to lose velocity. 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.880 So it might it might embed in something. Sure, you 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.120 could probably get it to injure a person, pretty sure, 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.640 pretty well, sure, I just wouldn't continue to cut. It 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.640 wouldn't continue to rotate and cut, so that's not realistic. 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.520 In fact, a larger version of this sort of thing 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.080 was used in a later James Bond film, but on 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.760 an industrial level, where it was supposed to be something 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.480 meant to cut down trees and ends up cutting James 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:25.280 Bond's car in half. Unlikely. Yeah, Um, something that was 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.559 more likely was a TV watch. Um, but Bond had 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.440 a had a color TV display embedded in in an 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.440 in a wrist watch. Um, have you seen any pictures 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.240 of this thing? I'll tell you what. All the pictures 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.880 online of this thing. The still image that they picked, 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:46.360 which which one woman's cleavage shocking. I'm shocked every single one. 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.360 By the way, if you're going out there rushing to 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.679 look at Google image starch right now after I said that, 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.360 for shame, but I was just it was one of 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:55.960 those things where I was looking at pictures of these 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.560 different gadgets because some of them I was unfamiliar with. 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:00.280 I haven't seen all the Bond film, so it's like 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.560 I need to see a picture of this, or perhaps 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:04.640 it's been a while in many cases, right right, And 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:06.680 and like I have no memory of this TV watch, 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.400 even though I remember watching octopusy and uh, and so 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.200 I looked it up and was like, oh really at 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.280 Sako had actually come out with a two color TV 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:19.280 watch the previous year, so so that was totally legit. Almost. Yeah, 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:21.680 there's a little bit smaller than what you would expect 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.800 in it had a little bit color, the color was better, 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.480 but but it was still online with the sort of 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.600 stuff that was coming out, you know, and you expect 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.920 that whatever James Bond has is bleeding edge technology. Yes, 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.960 other bleeding edge technology. And my two favorite from this film, 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.120 which are probably my two favorite of any James Bond 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.880 film ever in terms of pure ridiculous factor. Yeah, we've 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.319 got we've got the fake horse. Yeah, there's a horse 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.000 trailer with a fake horse, and the back end of 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.400 the fake horse lifts up and James Bond pulls out 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.520 a miniature aircraft that was hidden inside the horse and 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:59.160 horse trailer. So you've got this camouflaged trailer like it 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.199 could have just been a tailor. Why did they have 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:02.960 to be a horse trailer with a fake horse and 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:09.200 it that's hiding a gyrocopter. That's a question for the ages, Jonathan, 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.400 and I'm not answer. I would say that this is 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.120 the dumbest thing that happens in Octopus E except for 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.120 one other thing, except for the fact that there's a 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:22.120 crocodile shaped motor boat. Yeah, there's a crocodile shaped It's 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.520 it's incredible to me that that multiple people in a 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.040 movie studio said this is a great plan. Let us 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.360 enact it. This is and this continues to be terrific. 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:32.400 Let us go ahead with it. Not that's not only that, 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:36.920 but someone paid for that crocodile shaped motor boat. Prop 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.320 paid a lot. There might have been multiple ones that 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.040 they had to decide which one of these is the 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:47.520 best crocodile shaped boat prop. Oh man, So let's move on. 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:51.040 Things do improve in a way. We we get never 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.920 say Never again in three with a return of Sean Connery. 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.079 Now this was a film that was not made by 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.280 the same studio that was making all the other James 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.320 Bond films. So some people don't include it, some people do. 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:07.480 We're including it because why not. It's actually kind of 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.720 a based on the same story as a Thunderball was. 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.960 So if you remember in our last episode, Connery was 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.480 in Thunderball too, So essentially he's he's making two a 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:19.640 remake of his own movie in a way. So in 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.040 this one, he had a pen that had an explosive 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.600 charge in it that was meant to fire a projectile, 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.840 which you could do. And we talked about the lipstick 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:32.440 and cigarette uh one shot pistols in the past. Obviously 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:34.240 you couldn't make it be a pen pen like it 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.280 couldn't be made of the same stuff as your regular pen, 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:40.120 because that wouldn't hold up under the stress of your Yeah, 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.600 that would be bad. That's what we call a bad result. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.400 But technically it is possible. Uh. And another I thought 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.880 I'd pull up another kind of funky spy gun. I 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.080 like to bring up real life examples whenever we talk 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:55.160 about these fictional ones. There actually was this cell phone 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.280 um that what looks like it dates from the early nineties. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.320 It's a big, clunky candy ball our style cell phone. 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.120 All right, but if you were to uh to bisect 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.640 it so that the top half comes away from the 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.640 bottom half, you would see that there are four bullets 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:12.640 that can be in this thing, and it can actually 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.800 fire bullets. When you put in a four digit code 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:18.120 in the cell phone, it fires off a bullet. Yeah. So, um, 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:19.960 one of these was actually found in the wild. I 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.360 want to say it was in the UK. Uh. So 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:24.480 it's kind of a kind of crazy that these things 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.520 actually do exist to some extent, although I doubt that 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:29.880 they are, you know, in wide use. It's probably one 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.600 of those things that you know, when all else fails, 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:34.840 that's something that you might rely upon that may or 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:36.840 may not get you out of a tricky situation, unless 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.720 you're James Bond, in which case it always does, right 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.240 because it's because it's a plot gadget. Yeah. Um uh. 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:47.040 That film also had I think the first example of 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.120 a watch with a laser beam cutting tool, yeah, which 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:54.200 again not realistic because you would need a lot of 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.360 power to be able to create a laser of significant 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.000 intensity for you to cut through anything. Now we could 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:03.400 have laser pointers Shara watches. In fact, I'm sure there's 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.600 some watches out there that do. But for something that 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:10.080 could actually cut you would need a pretty significant power 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.040 and that's not something that you could fit in a 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.960 wrist watch form factor moving on too, of you to 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.640 a kill. We'll guess who's back with us, Roger Moore it. 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:25.000 So here's an interesting piece of technology that that you 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.640 found an example of, at least a concept that's similar 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.000 to it. One of the things James Bond has is 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.000 a ring that hides a camera in it. Now, this 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:37.280 is also, especially in five when you're talking about film cameras, 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.480 really hard to do because how do you how do 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:43.760 you miniaturize all that stuff so it fits into a ring? Um. 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:45.920 But on top of that, you know, now even with 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.640 a digital one, it would still be tricky because again 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.280 you have to worry about power, like where does the 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.720 power come from? Right? News broken late that a design 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.320 studio is working on a digital camera in a in 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.560 a ring thing like this. Uh they're they're calling it 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:02.480 the camera in yeah. Um. But as of right now, 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.600 I haven't heard any further development about everything I looked into. 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.760 Look like it was a concept, not even beyond a 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.639 concept at this point, So we may never see a 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.560 real one now. The pictures, the concept drawings make it 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.840 look super cool and I totally want one. Yeah, And 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.479 in fact, lots of people on on like Pinterest and 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:21.879 Fancy in places like that have been like this, this 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:25.200 thing is terrific. U. But yeah, there's no Yeah, the 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.920 drawing is terrific. It's amazing what people can draw, isn't it. 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.640 If only that thing can come real again, I don't 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:32.200 know how you get around the power thing. You get 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.160 to have a small battery in it, but it would 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:38.040 drain that pretty quickly, I would imagine. Anyway. They also 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.800 had an electric shaver that was actually hiding eaves dropping technology, 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:47.800 which again uh and um. And then that that iceberg 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.600 boat submarine. It all depends on who you ask, whether 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.600 as a boat or a submarine, but disguised as an iceberg, 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:58.359 it's better than a crocodile. However, this particular iceberg boat also, 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:03.520 as I recall, had a didn't and champagne. I I that, 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:07.160 you know, iceberg shaped some mercibles is where I keep 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.560 all of my luxury items, So I'm not sure why 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:11.800 you're questioning this. This is one of those issues that 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:13.800 I have with James Bond. Is just not only that 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:17.600 he's a spy that draws unwanted attention to himself wherever 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:21.400 he goes, but he's also like living this insane, lavish 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:26.240 lifestyle that that nobody does except for maybe Elon Musk. 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:28.560 Maybe that's why he bought that Submercibiles. He's trying to 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:32.560 become James Bond. Um. You know. Anyway, I just thought 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.679 it was weird. So now we're moving on to the 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:41.119 Living Daylights, where we get a brand new Bond. Timothy Dalton, Yeah, 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.440 this is Timothy Dalton was not one of the more 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:47.080 lauded James Bond's less than popular at least, I think 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:51.359 Roger Moore people have a kind of fondness or campiness. 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.760 Timothy Dalton. Well, it's not entirely his fault that Timothy 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.719 Dalton movies were a little dour, you know, they weren't. 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.240 They were. It's seemed like a lot of fun was 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.480 missing from some of those, Timothy Dalton, and they they were, 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:05.720 they were a little bit humor less, right. So the 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:09.000 Living Daylights, let's talk about some of the gadgets and that. Yeah, 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:13.080 let's see, we had a a key chain that included 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:16.720 knockout gas to be released if you whistled the correct notes, 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:21.200 which was Rule Britannia for James Bond. Presumably each double 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:25.160 O agent would have a different whistle que, so Rule 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.280 Britanny so do do do Do Do Do Do Do 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.800 would release knockout gas, but it also could explode if 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.560 you used a different kind of whistle for for for James, 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:36.760 they used a wolf whistle, which Q of course comments 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:40.440 upon as you would expect, and it was totally appropriate 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:44.199 for Mr misogyny James Bond. Also contained inside this key 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:46.720 chain was a lock pick capable of opening up like 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:51.320 of the world's locks, according to Q, which is amazing. Um, 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.119 I'm not sure that any keychain could contain all of 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:56.600 these things and still be a key chain and not 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:02.240 like a kit. Seems unlikely. Yes, that that's again one 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:04.960 of those physics issues. How do you pack? How do 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.600 you make enough room for enough knockout gas to be 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:12.520 effective for anything, or enough explosive charge to be dangerous, 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:16.639 and have the enough room for the lock picks as well? 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:18.960 All three of those things into something that tiny would 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:21.080 be really hard to do. Also, how can you make 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.639 sure that when one goes off, like when the gas 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:27.160 is released, it doesn't accidentally also make it explode, because 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:29.720 knockout gas is great if you don't want to hurt people. 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:31.560 But if you do knock out gas and then immediately 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:35.040 the key chain explodes, yeah, that's not good. Yeah. I 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:37.879 would assume that whatever release mechanism would would be I 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:41.280 don't know, yeah, at any rate. Um. Then then there 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:45.359 was a boom box, Yes, the Ghetto Blast. As Q 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:48.159 would say, it was meant for agents who were operating 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:50.840 in the United States because, as we all know, by 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:55.919 seven we all were walking around with four foot long 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:59.639 radios perched on our shoulders. Well, it's the only thing 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:03.639 that Matt with hammer pants were until we were mostly 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:06.879