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Speaker 1: I'm Jonathan Strickland and I'm Lauren Boltom. And when last
Speaker 1: we left you, James Vond was dangling over a cliff
Speaker 1: and what could he do? But he's one of those
Speaker 1: amazing gadgets. We're doing a two part series on the
Speaker 1: amazing tech, sometimes literally incredible tech that is featured in
Speaker 1: the James Bond books and films. And I believe you
Speaker 1: had a little bit of a kind of a historical
Speaker 1: tidbit to kind of wet our appetites before we jump
Speaker 1: into the movies again, right, yeah, yeah, okay. So supposedly
Speaker 1: John D, the sixteenth century science guy John D may
Speaker 1: have been the first double O seven to perform espionage
Speaker 1: in the Royal Service. He served as an advisor to
Speaker 1: the Queen and reportedly signed his messages with two zero's
Speaker 1: symbolizing his job as the Queen's eyes um, followed by
Speaker 1: a seven with the top drawn out over the zeros
Speaker 1: that the number seven reportedly having some kind of occult
Speaker 1: meaning to d Um. So his code name, if you will,
Speaker 1: was double O seven Yeah, and that you can uh
Speaker 1: find and we actually have an article all about James
Speaker 1: Bond at How Stuff Works. You can learn more about
Speaker 1: the background and the supposed mythology behind it. By the way,
Speaker 1: I've got another trivia tidbit about Dr John D. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you know that? According to HP Lovecraft, Dr John
Speaker 1: D was the man responsible for translating the Necronomicon into English,
Speaker 1: although that translation was never found I did not. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's jump into the James Bond series. Now, when
Speaker 1: we last we left off, we had worked our way
Speaker 1: up to Moonraker, the nineteen seventy nine film, and yes
Speaker 1: we are in the middle of Roger Moore's um the
Speaker 1: best James Bond ever. As I mentioned in the last one,
Speaker 1: George lazenby close second Roger Moore. Man, you can I
Speaker 1: could just hear the frustrated squeals of of James Bond
Speaker 1: fans everywhere. Third placed Timothy Dalton, just just trying not
Speaker 1: to kill you with their minds. Oh it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So Moonraker head, this was the era where
Speaker 1: the Roger Moore era, where the gadgets really started going. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We keep in mind Lauren and I met before we
Speaker 1: came in to record this where we cut a bunch
Speaker 1: of gadgets because we just for time, there's just too many.
Speaker 1: And in this particular era alone, I think like sixty
Speaker 1: of our cuts came from these, right. So starting off,
Speaker 1: we have a wrist dart gun with poison tipped darts
Speaker 1: are also armor piercing darts, so he had two different types.
Speaker 1: And there are lots of electronic dart guns that have
Speaker 1: been created over the pasta including a well, there's one
Speaker 1: that was not even this was an electric It was
Speaker 1: actually a bullet one. It was a gun gun. There
Speaker 1: was a glove mounted gun, so the barrel of the
Speaker 1: gun was actually on the palm side, and it was
Speaker 1: designed so that when you would make a fist and
Speaker 1: punch something, the gun in which the barrel would hopefully
Speaker 1: clear your knuckles, would fire off. And the idea being
Speaker 1: that it was developed in World War two by the
Speaker 1: OSS and the idea is that you know, if you
Speaker 1: were to create this sort of thing and show a
Speaker 1: person punching someone else and the other person dies as
Speaker 1: a result of being punched, it would scare the heck
Speaker 1: out of your enemies, like, wow, they are so strong.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Didn't work so well, so hardly
Speaker 1: anyone ever fired one of these things. There are some
Speaker 1: interesting pictures online of the various gun gloves. Uh So
Speaker 1: there have been people who have tried to make this
Speaker 1: kind of technology work, but no one's really done it
Speaker 1: in such a way that it was ever practical. So
Speaker 1: risk dart gun not necessarily practical. There's probably other ways
Speaker 1: you could, you know, starts out other kind of impractical thing.
Speaker 1: A cigarette case with an X ray safe cracking device. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how you would fit X ray scanning
Speaker 1: technology into the form factor of a cigarette. Sounds impossible.
Speaker 1: It sounds pretty hard to me. Yeah, also had a wristwatch.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of wristwatches in James Bond. That's
Speaker 1: one of the things that we ended up cutting some
Speaker 1: of them because there's so many. They were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we we've already. But anyway, this particular wristwatch had a
Speaker 1: detonator refused and an explosive charge built into it, which, again,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of stuff to pack into a tiny
Speaker 1: form factor. Now I can totally understand a detonator in
Speaker 1: a watch. A transmitter, that's something that I could, you know,
Speaker 1: especially once you get into the transistor era, and we're
Speaker 1: well into it now in nine. Transistors are definitely a
Speaker 1: thing when you get into that miniaturization where you press
Speaker 1: a button and it sends out a radio signal. I
Speaker 1: totally get that. But being able to build in all
Speaker 1: this other stuff so that it can contain everything is
Speaker 1: a little on the science fiction side. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: dicey in terms of physics. There was also something showing
Speaker 1: off in Queues laboratory that disturbed me. Are you are
Speaker 1: you talking about the Mexican machine gun? Yeah, Mexican machine gun.
Speaker 1: And so this is problematic so that while showing what
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of the scenes show Q walking
Speaker 1: through the laboratory and some outlandishly ridiculous gadget is going
Speaker 1: off in the background. Yeah, just completely without comment, just
Speaker 1: that's just happening. Occasionally they might stop and oh have
Speaker 1: you seen this double O seven? It's a Mexican machine
Speaker 1: gun and it looks like a well, it looks like
Speaker 1: a mannequin. It is a mannequin of a person wearing
Speaker 1: like a sombrero and taking a CS to like like
Speaker 1: a troubling lye racist mannequin. Yeah, and then the chest
Speaker 1: opens up, revealing a machine gun that fires off, So yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a little problematic. And then there, of course,
Speaker 1: is the character of Holly Goodhead, who had lots of
Speaker 1: gadget She was a CIA agent in Moonraker, and she
Speaker 1: had her own weapons, which included a pen, a notebook,
Speaker 1: and perfume. It was a poison pen, it was it
Speaker 1: was a dart shooting note back all women, it was flamethrower.
Speaker 1: Every I'm sure you have some at your desk. It's
Speaker 1: probably pink too, because we all know what ladies like, right, Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: the the to be fair, the James Bond franchise has
Speaker 1: never been accused of being forward thinking as far as
Speaker 1: women are concerned. Yeah, that's that's or or race when
Speaker 1: it comes to that. Yes, no, there's some terrible examples,
Speaker 1: but we're what of course, we're constantly on the gadgets,
Speaker 1: not the not the social commentary. So moving up to nine,
Speaker 1: we're still with Roger Moore. Still yeah, for your eyes only, Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it was not just for my eyes, Lauren, it was
Speaker 1: for the world's eyes. Oh, you're talking about the title
Speaker 1: of the movie. Okay, yes, for your eyes. On the yes, um,
Speaker 1: they introduced a computer like device called the ideograph in
Speaker 1: this which was interesting. The idea was that you could
Speaker 1: create a composite picture of a person by adding or
Speaker 1: removing distinguishing features on a computer. Yeah, so it's kind
Speaker 1: of like, no, the nose is bigger, No, no, the
Speaker 1: eyes are wider. Set that kind of thing, which is
Speaker 1: totally something we can do now. Yeah. Yeah, facial composition
Speaker 1: techniques have been in use for for decades and decades
Speaker 1: at this point, but um, I don't think that we
Speaker 1: got a digital version until the late nineteen eighties. So
Speaker 1: this is kind of again another sort of predictive technology,
Speaker 1: but it's certainly something that has been used since. And
Speaker 1: we still have you know, uh like a sketch artists
Speaker 1: who work with police departments too. But now there are
Speaker 1: also these technologies that let people uh kind of mix
Speaker 1: and match basic features where you get a general idea
Speaker 1: of what someone might look like based upon a description. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's great, uh, great artistic technology. Um. Also in
Speaker 1: this film, we had an update to the communications first watch.
Speaker 1: I think last we had kind of a ticker tape
Speaker 1: sort of thing going on, um, and this one could
Speaker 1: receive digital messages and be used like a walkie talkie,
Speaker 1: which is fantastic because it meant that Roger Moore could
Speaker 1: clear out all that extra space and his hollow arm
Speaker 1: for the battery that would be necessary to run this device. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, for those who don't get that joke, you
Speaker 1: need to listen to the other podcast, the other episode.
Speaker 1: Of course, these days that's totally a thing that we
Speaker 1: have in pockets all the time. But but yes, at
Speaker 1: the time, it was still a little bit forward thinking.
Speaker 1: We wouldn't start to get wrist watches with that kind
Speaker 1: of capacity until the late eighties at the very earliest.
Speaker 1: And of course we you know, we've talked all about
Speaker 1: smart watches in previous episodes, including the most famous one,
Speaker 1: the Dick Tracy wrist radio, and there have been lots
Speaker 1: of people who have created various kinds of of watches
Speaker 1: that were also communicators. But now we're finally getting into
Speaker 1: the era where they aren't super bulky or have you know,
Speaker 1: no battery life whatsoever. So definitely a little ahead of
Speaker 1: its time there, but supposed to be. Moving on to
Speaker 1: the next Roger Moore film, nineteen eight three's Octopusy, which
Speaker 1: I saw in a drive in movie theater. I remember
Speaker 1: distinctly going to see this movie and thinking, even as
Speaker 1: a kid in three same year that Return of the
Speaker 1: Jedi came out, even as a kid, thinking this is silly.
Speaker 1: It's this I would I would argue that Octopus E
Speaker 1: is the silliest of the James Bond. It certainly had
Speaker 1: some of the silliest examples of technology and and uh camouflage,
Speaker 1: with the possible exception of a car that we'll talk
Speaker 1: about towards the end of this episode. But for one thing,
Speaker 1: they had the wristwatch and pen combo that this part
Speaker 1: wasn't so silly. The idea was that the pen had
Speaker 1: surveillance technology like a microphone in it that you would
Speaker 1: surreptitiously leave someplace and then you could pick up the
Speaker 1: transmission on the wristwatch and listen in on what was
Speaker 1: going on. Not that crazy an idea actually, so I
Speaker 1: kind of get that one. Uh. Also, the pen had
Speaker 1: some nitric and hydrochloric acid in it that could clearly
Speaker 1: dissolve stuff, because occasionally have to dissolve a bad guy's
Speaker 1: face and you might not have the ark of the
Speaker 1: Covenant in your youth. Uh. So then there was a
Speaker 1: weapon that one of the nameless henchman in this movie
Speaker 1: used there was a buzz saw slash yo yo type thing. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I mean it was. I don't think that it was
Speaker 1: intended to be a yo yo. I think it was
Speaker 1: purely for weapon purposes. I don't think that the bad
Speaker 1: guy was trying to trick anyone with it. It wasn't
Speaker 1: trying to walk the dog or but it wasn't. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was a buzz saw that had yo yo functionality. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so the they thought ahead a little bit. So the
Speaker 1: there was like a handpiece this guy wore where he
Speaker 1: could hold the blade like a saw blade, you know,
Speaker 1: and like a saw blade that's on a cable. But uh,
Speaker 1: and he was the guy who was using it was
Speaker 1: mostly using it from above. He was on a level
Speaker 1: higher up than where James Bond was. He could kind
Speaker 1: of throw it down and have it come back into
Speaker 1: your hands, right and it would spin on the end
Speaker 1: of its ropes, sort of like a yo yo would
Speaker 1: if you if you did have a sleep just you
Speaker 1: know it's it's called sleeping. But it could cut through
Speaker 1: like all this stuff, Like it cuts through a table
Speaker 1: that's got like a big fruit plate on it, because
Speaker 1: you know, that's visually interesting Um, And truth is, unless
Speaker 1: there was a motor that was turning that saw blade,
Speaker 1: that just wouldn't work because as soon as it made
Speaker 1: contact with something solid, it would start to lose velocity.
Speaker 1: So it might it might embed in something. Sure, you
Speaker 1: could probably get it to injure a person, pretty sure,
Speaker 1: pretty well, sure, I just wouldn't continue to cut. It
Speaker 1: wouldn't continue to rotate and cut, so that's not realistic.
Speaker 1: In fact, a larger version of this sort of thing
Speaker 1: was used in a later James Bond film, but on
Speaker 1: an industrial level, where it was supposed to be something
Speaker 1: meant to cut down trees and ends up cutting James
Speaker 1: Bond's car in half. Unlikely. Yeah, Um, something that was
Speaker 1: more likely was a TV watch. Um, but Bond had
Speaker 1: a had a color TV display embedded in in an
Speaker 1: in a wrist watch. Um, have you seen any pictures
Speaker 1: of this thing? I'll tell you what. All the pictures
Speaker 1: online of this thing. The still image that they picked,
Speaker 1: which which one woman's cleavage shocking. I'm shocked every single one.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you're going out there rushing to
Speaker 1: look at Google image starch right now after I said that,
Speaker 1: for shame, but I was just it was one of
Speaker 1: those things where I was looking at pictures of these
Speaker 1: different gadgets because some of them I was unfamiliar with.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen all the Bond film, so it's like
Speaker 1: I need to see a picture of this, or perhaps
Speaker 1: it's been a while in many cases, right right, And
Speaker 1: and like I have no memory of this TV watch,
Speaker 1: even though I remember watching octopusy and uh, and so
Speaker 1: I looked it up and was like, oh really at
Speaker 1: Sako had actually come out with a two color TV
Speaker 1: watch the previous year, so so that was totally legit. Almost. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a little bit smaller than what you would expect
Speaker 1: in it had a little bit color, the color was better,
Speaker 1: but but it was still online with the sort of
Speaker 1: stuff that was coming out, you know, and you expect
Speaker 1: that whatever James Bond has is bleeding edge technology. Yes,
Speaker 1: other bleeding edge technology. And my two favorite from this film,
Speaker 1: which are probably my two favorite of any James Bond
Speaker 1: film ever in terms of pure ridiculous factor. Yeah, we've
Speaker 1: got we've got the fake horse. Yeah, there's a horse
Speaker 1: trailer with a fake horse, and the back end of
Speaker 1: the fake horse lifts up and James Bond pulls out
Speaker 1: a miniature aircraft that was hidden inside the horse and
Speaker 1: horse trailer. So you've got this camouflaged trailer like it
Speaker 1: could have just been a tailor. Why did they have
Speaker 1: to be a horse trailer with a fake horse and
Speaker 1: it that's hiding a gyrocopter. That's a question for the ages, Jonathan,
Speaker 1: and I'm not answer. I would say that this is
Speaker 1: the dumbest thing that happens in Octopus E except for
Speaker 1: one other thing, except for the fact that there's a
Speaker 1: crocodile shaped motor boat. Yeah, there's a crocodile shaped It's
Speaker 1: it's incredible to me that that multiple people in a
Speaker 1: movie studio said this is a great plan. Let us
Speaker 1: enact it. This is and this continues to be terrific.
Speaker 1: Let us go ahead with it. Not that's not only that,
Speaker 1: but someone paid for that crocodile shaped motor boat. Prop
Speaker 1: paid a lot. There might have been multiple ones that
Speaker 1: they had to decide which one of these is the
Speaker 1: best crocodile shaped boat prop. Oh man, So let's move on.
Speaker 1: Things do improve in a way. We we get never
Speaker 1: say Never again in three with a return of Sean Connery.
Speaker 1: Now this was a film that was not made by
Speaker 1: the same studio that was making all the other James
Speaker 1: Bond films. So some people don't include it, some people do.
Speaker 1: We're including it because why not. It's actually kind of
Speaker 1: a based on the same story as a Thunderball was.
Speaker 1: So if you remember in our last episode, Connery was
Speaker 1: in Thunderball too, So essentially he's he's making two a
Speaker 1: remake of his own movie in a way. So in
Speaker 1: this one, he had a pen that had an explosive
Speaker 1: charge in it that was meant to fire a projectile,
Speaker 1: which you could do. And we talked about the lipstick
Speaker 1: and cigarette uh one shot pistols in the past. Obviously
Speaker 1: you couldn't make it be a pen pen like it
Speaker 1: couldn't be made of the same stuff as your regular pen,
Speaker 1: because that wouldn't hold up under the stress of your Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be bad. That's what we call a bad result.
Speaker 1: But technically it is possible. Uh. And another I thought
Speaker 1: I'd pull up another kind of funky spy gun. I
Speaker 1: like to bring up real life examples whenever we talk
Speaker 1: about these fictional ones. There actually was this cell phone
Speaker 1: um that what looks like it dates from the early nineties.
Speaker 1: It's a big, clunky candy ball our style cell phone.
Speaker 1: All right, but if you were to uh to bisect
Speaker 1: it so that the top half comes away from the
Speaker 1: bottom half, you would see that there are four bullets
Speaker 1: that can be in this thing, and it can actually
Speaker 1: fire bullets. When you put in a four digit code
Speaker 1: in the cell phone, it fires off a bullet. Yeah. So, um,
Speaker 1: one of these was actually found in the wild. I
Speaker 1: want to say it was in the UK. Uh. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of a kind of crazy that these things
Speaker 1: actually do exist to some extent, although I doubt that
Speaker 1: they are, you know, in wide use. It's probably one
Speaker 1: of those things that you know, when all else fails,
Speaker 1: that's something that you might rely upon that may or
Speaker 1: may not get you out of a tricky situation, unless
Speaker 1: you're James Bond, in which case it always does, right
Speaker 1: because it's because it's a plot gadget. Yeah. Um uh.
Speaker 1: That film also had I think the first example of
Speaker 1: a watch with a laser beam cutting tool, yeah, which
Speaker 1: again not realistic because you would need a lot of
Speaker 1: power to be able to create a laser of significant
Speaker 1: intensity for you to cut through anything. Now we could
Speaker 1: have laser pointers Shara watches. In fact, I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: some watches out there that do. But for something that
Speaker 1: could actually cut you would need a pretty significant power
Speaker 1: and that's not something that you could fit in a
Speaker 1: wrist watch form factor moving on too, of you to
Speaker 1: a kill. We'll guess who's back with us, Roger Moore it.
Speaker 1: So here's an interesting piece of technology that that you
Speaker 1: found an example of, at least a concept that's similar
Speaker 1: to it. One of the things James Bond has is
Speaker 1: a ring that hides a camera in it. Now, this
Speaker 1: is also, especially in five when you're talking about film cameras,
Speaker 1: really hard to do because how do you how do
Speaker 1: you miniaturize all that stuff so it fits into a ring? Um.
Speaker 1: But on top of that, you know, now even with
Speaker 1: a digital one, it would still be tricky because again
Speaker 1: you have to worry about power, like where does the
Speaker 1: power come from? Right? News broken late that a design
Speaker 1: studio is working on a digital camera in a in
Speaker 1: a ring thing like this. Uh they're they're calling it
Speaker 1: the camera in yeah. Um. But as of right now,
Speaker 1: I haven't heard any further development about everything I looked into.
Speaker 1: Look like it was a concept, not even beyond a
Speaker 1: concept at this point, So we may never see a
Speaker 1: real one now. The pictures, the concept drawings make it
Speaker 1: look super cool and I totally want one. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: in fact, lots of people on on like Pinterest and
Speaker 1: Fancy in places like that have been like this, this
Speaker 1: thing is terrific. U. But yeah, there's no Yeah, the
Speaker 1: drawing is terrific. It's amazing what people can draw, isn't it.
Speaker 1: If only that thing can come real again, I don't
Speaker 1: know how you get around the power thing. You get
Speaker 1: to have a small battery in it, but it would
Speaker 1: drain that pretty quickly, I would imagine. Anyway. They also
Speaker 1: had an electric shaver that was actually hiding eaves dropping technology,
Speaker 1: which again uh and um. And then that that iceberg
Speaker 1: boat submarine. It all depends on who you ask, whether
Speaker 1: as a boat or a submarine, but disguised as an iceberg,
Speaker 1: it's better than a crocodile. However, this particular iceberg boat also,
Speaker 1: as I recall, had a didn't and champagne. I I that,
Speaker 1: you know, iceberg shaped some mercibles is where I keep
Speaker 1: all of my luxury items, So I'm not sure why
Speaker 1: you're questioning this. This is one of those issues that
Speaker 1: I have with James Bond. Is just not only that
Speaker 1: he's a spy that draws unwanted attention to himself wherever
Speaker 1: he goes, but he's also like living this insane, lavish
Speaker 1: lifestyle that that nobody does except for maybe Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why he bought that Submercibiles. He's trying to
Speaker 1: become James Bond. Um. You know. Anyway, I just thought
Speaker 1: it was weird. So now we're moving on to the
Speaker 1: Living Daylights, where we get a brand new Bond. Timothy Dalton, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is Timothy Dalton was not one of the more
Speaker 1: lauded James Bond's less than popular at least, I think
Speaker 1: Roger Moore people have a kind of fondness or campiness.
Speaker 1: Timothy Dalton. Well, it's not entirely his fault that Timothy
Speaker 1: Dalton movies were a little dour, you know, they weren't.
Speaker 1: They were. It's seemed like a lot of fun was
Speaker 1: missing from some of those, Timothy Dalton, and they they were,
Speaker 1: they were a little bit humor less, right. So the
Speaker 1: Living Daylights, let's talk about some of the gadgets and that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's see, we had a a key chain that included
Speaker 1: knockout gas to be released if you whistled the correct notes,
Speaker 1: which was Rule Britannia for James Bond. Presumably each double
Speaker 1: O agent would have a different whistle que, so Rule
Speaker 1: Britanny so do do do Do Do Do Do Do
Speaker 1: would release knockout gas, but it also could explode if
Speaker 1: you used a different kind of whistle for for for James,
Speaker 1: they used a wolf whistle, which Q of course comments
Speaker 1: upon as you would expect, and it was totally appropriate
Speaker 1: for Mr misogyny James Bond. Also contained inside this key
Speaker 1: chain was a lock pick capable of opening up like
Speaker 1: of the world's locks, according to Q, which is amazing. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that any keychain could contain all of
Speaker 1: these things and still be a key chain and not
Speaker 1: like a kit. Seems unlikely. Yes, that that's again one
Speaker 1: of those physics issues. How do you pack? How do
Speaker 1: you make enough room for enough knockout gas to be
Speaker 1: effective for anything, or enough explosive charge to be dangerous,
Speaker 1: and have the enough room for the lock picks as well?
Speaker 1: All three of those things into something that tiny would
Speaker 1: be really hard to do. Also, how can you make
Speaker 1: sure that when one goes off, like when the gas
Speaker 1: is released, it doesn't accidentally also make it explode, because
Speaker 1: knockout gas is great if you don't want to hurt people.
Speaker 1: But if you do knock out gas and then immediately
Speaker 1: the key chain explodes, yeah, that's not good. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: would assume that whatever release mechanism would would be I
Speaker 1: don't know, yeah, at any rate. Um. Then then there
Speaker 1: was a boom box, Yes, the Ghetto Blast. As Q
Speaker 1: would say, it was meant for agents who were operating
Speaker 1: in the United States because, as we all know, by
Speaker 1: seven we all were walking around with four foot long
Speaker 1: radios perched on our shoulders. Well, it's the only thing
Speaker 1: that Matt with hammer pants were until we were mostly
Speaker 1: looking for for sheets of cardboard upon which we would
Speaker 1: bust some moves. I would encourage you to watch the
Speaker 1: documentary Break into Electric Boogaloo to learn more. So anyway,
Speaker 1: the Ghetto Blaster was a rocket launcher that was disguised
Speaker 1: to be a boom box, the heaviest boom box ever
Speaker 1: you would imagine for it to be an effective rocket launcher,
Speaker 1: it would probably be pretty weighty. To be fair, boom
Speaker 1: boxes were already pretty heavy back in those days, but
Speaker 1: this would be even heavier. However, dalton Is Bond did
Speaker 1: get a new Aston Martin. Yes, the v A Vantage Volante,
Speaker 1: which had hubcap lasers, retractable ski retractable spikes, also a
Speaker 1: missile launcher and a rocket that would make it go.
Speaker 1: As I put in the notes, wicked Fast also had
Speaker 1: a self destruct system, which most of the Aston Martins
Speaker 1: after this point did too. That's one of those things
Speaker 1: come standing self destruction, you know. Not the Bond ever
Speaker 1: needed the self destruct system. Yeah. No, he was usually
Speaker 1: pretty good at wrecking those all on his own, to
Speaker 1: be fair. To be fair, I think one of his
Speaker 1: vehicles did did a self destruct when someone tried to
Speaker 1: break into it, and it was part of the anti
Speaker 1: theft device. It's a very effective one car alarm. No,
Speaker 1: that's great much. That's much less annoying than because because
Speaker 1: it's over in a moment, it doesn't go on all
Speaker 1: morning long. Moving on to our next film, License to
Speaker 1: Kill From I remember this one too. Uh So, this
Speaker 1: one had a plastic explosives in the form of toothpaste
Speaker 1: called Dentonite. Yeah, and I had a pack of cigarettes
Speaker 1: that were used as the detonator, so you would squeeze
Speaker 1: out the plastic. The plastic and then use the the
Speaker 1: cigarettes and planted in it to be the blasting caps.
Speaker 1: So I they don't actually say what type of plastic
Speaker 1: explosives they're using. I assume it was something similar to
Speaker 1: pef or, which is what the Brits use. In the US,
Speaker 1: we use something very similar called C four. I say we,
Speaker 1: I just mean the the entities that have access to
Speaker 1: these things personally, I don't use either. They don't give
Speaker 1: you four not anymore. So, um, yeah, these things require
Speaker 1: blasting caps. They actually can withstand impact pretty well. They
Speaker 1: can they can withstand heat pretty well, unless it's super
Speaker 1: intense explosive heat that releases very quickly, which is why
Speaker 1: you need the blasting caps. So um, it's another one
Speaker 1: of those things where you'd have to have a very
Speaker 1: effective blasting cap technology to make this plastic explosive stuff
Speaker 1: ignite and and explode. So it's not like it's impossible,
Speaker 1: it would just be really tricky to do in that
Speaker 1: particular form factor. And then we had a few We
Speaker 1: had some camera technology in this one. Um that there
Speaker 1: was some kind of weird sniper camera gun thing, a
Speaker 1: sniper rifle disguised as a camera. But it's like a Decepticon. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: snipers and disguise, yes, um, we also had it. We
Speaker 1: also had a polaroid camera that had definitely lasers. Well,
Speaker 1: the lasers were meant to somehow create an X ray
Speaker 1: version of whatever it was you were taking a picture of.
Speaker 1: So if I had this polaroid and you were wearing
Speaker 1: a trench coat and you were laden down with various weaponry, which, guys,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Lauren holds her weapons all in
Speaker 1: the open, so it's not like she would be concealing
Speaker 1: them because she doesn't feel the need to do that.
Speaker 1: But if she did, I prefer that the nine ft
Speaker 1: long anime sword right personally, right, it's it's it's very
Speaker 1: comical to watch Lauren keep on bumping into door frames.
Speaker 1: But no, let's say that I wanted to check out
Speaker 1: and see if Lauren was in fact carrying, you know,
Speaker 1: an arsenal underneath that trench coat. Take a photo of
Speaker 1: this polaroid and it had this little red laser flash
Speaker 1: that came out of the flash instead of a regular
Speaker 1: camera flash, and the polaroid would come out with the
Speaker 1: X ray version of whatever that picture is. Um, again,
Speaker 1: not really a thing. Uh, you know, using X rays
Speaker 1: would be dangerous. Using that camera would be really dangerous
Speaker 1: on any extended So the lasers would be deadly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and just it would just mean that you would be
Speaker 1: deadly in the sense that you would eventually probably contract
Speaker 1: contract cancer as opposed to get burned by a laser.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it wasn't meant to be a weapon. It
Speaker 1: was meant to try and detect, you know, people smuggling
Speaker 1: in guns into places where you don't want them to
Speaker 1: have them. We got a lot more to talk about,
Speaker 1: but before we do that, let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: to thank our sponsor and up. Okay, in our last
Speaker 1: James Bond film, we had Timothy Dalton, but now on
Speaker 1: our next one we go up to the next actor
Speaker 1: to play James Bond. Yeah, it would be a six
Speaker 1: year break in between these movies, and the next film
Speaker 1: that came out was Golden with Pierce Brosnan. Now Pierce Brosnan.
Speaker 1: A lot of people felt was a good, um refreshing
Speaker 1: breath after Timothy Dalton. Again, I think the Timothy Dalton
Speaker 1: movies was that was more of a scripting issue than
Speaker 1: necessarily a casting one. But Pierce Proson and definitely brought
Speaker 1: in some uh uh, you know, kind of an edge
Speaker 1: to the character that had sort of not been there before.
Speaker 1: It would definitely be refined later on. So Golden Eye, Uh,
Speaker 1: besides being one of the best Nintendo sixty four video
Speaker 1: games ever made, I'm glad that you said that, because
Speaker 1: that was going to be my really important note about
Speaker 1: it was also a great movie. Uh. He had his
Speaker 1: Aston Martin d B five again, So we're back to
Speaker 1: the Aston Martin. This one in particular, had a fax
Speaker 1: machine in the dashboard, just like any sexy, suave spy,
Speaker 1: let me fax this, um, but but more and more
Speaker 1: interestingly cellular voice communication capacity. Yeah, this is when we're
Speaker 1: starting to see cell phones started to get adopted in
Speaker 1: large numbers. But you know, to have like a hands
Speaker 1: free cellular voice command system inside of a car was
Speaker 1: definitely bleeding edge tech at the time. They also had
Speaker 1: It's actually one of my favorite scenes in Gold and I.
Speaker 1: There's a ballpoint pen that Q gives to to Bond,
Speaker 1: and the pen is an actual explosive device, a grenade
Speaker 1: that had that you activate by clicking it three times.
Speaker 1: Since it's a ballpoint, so if you click it three times,
Speaker 1: it activates and it has a four second long fuse,
Speaker 1: and you can deactivate it by clicking it three more times.
Speaker 1: So Q says, you know, you click it three times
Speaker 1: click click click, and the four second fuse starts and
Speaker 1: goes click click click, and then James Bond takes and says,
Speaker 1: how long did you say the fuse was? Click click click,
Speaker 1: and then Q just looks at him, takes the pen back, calmly,
Speaker 1: clicks it three times and says, grow up double O seven.
Speaker 1: And then of course there's a little line about so
Speaker 1: they always said the pen is mightier than the swords
Speaker 1: as well, this time they're right because of me, says Q.
Speaker 1: So there are a lot of other silly gadgets shown
Speaker 1: in the background during the Q laboratory scene, like some
Speaker 1: of the silliest ones and uh, you had like ejector
Speaker 1: seats shown off. There was the uh there was one
Speaker 1: point where Q shows up. Actually, when Q first shows
Speaker 1: up in the scene, he's we wheeling out in the
Speaker 1: wheelchair and he's got one leg in a big plaster
Speaker 1: cast and Bond says, home, I'm sorry about your leg,
Speaker 1: and then Q demonstrates that it's actually a missile launcher
Speaker 1: and a missile launches from the cast leg and flies
Speaker 1: about twenty feet to the right of a dummy that
Speaker 1: he was pointing toward. And then Q just casually stands
Speaker 1: up out of the wheelchair and you see that was
Speaker 1: a false leg the whole time. Uh. And we had
Speaker 1: a request by Ian on Facebook that said that we
Speaker 1: needed to explain that, if not for the practicality, but
Speaker 1: for the sheer comedic value of that particular device. There's
Speaker 1: also one that they don't comment on, Like you were
Speaker 1: saying earlier, Lauren, there occasionally in these Q segments you
Speaker 1: just see stuff going on in the background that's hilarious,
Speaker 1: but no one says anything. There's one point where you
Speaker 1: see a guy, a guy in a lab coat walk
Speaker 1: into a phone booth and then suddenly the phone booth
Speaker 1: just fills up with a big inflated balloon, trapping the
Speaker 1: against the door, and because the door pulls in on
Speaker 1: phone booth, he can't get out and you just see
Speaker 1: him squished up against the glass. And that is hilarious.
Speaker 1: Also doesn't play any other part in the movie whatsoever. Uh.
Speaker 1: That starts to feel like it belongs more and get
Speaker 1: smart than on James. Yeah, some of these, some of
Speaker 1: these around this era started to seem like parodies of
Speaker 1: I mean even even more. At least they were being
Speaker 1: self aware because I feel like the stuff that was
Speaker 1: going on in Roger Moore's time was straightforwardly like it
Speaker 1: was just great. It was just camp, the way the
Speaker 1: old Batman series was camp. So uh, we move on
Speaker 1: to Tomorrow Never dies that film again with Pierce Browsnon. Yep.
Speaker 1: They had a mobile phone that could act as a
Speaker 1: fingerprint scanner. And as we've all mentioned, yeah, iPhone five
Speaker 1: S does that now, So we actually have technology that
Speaker 1: could do this that you know, we could easily adapt that.
Speaker 1: In fact, I'm sure there are law enforcement agencies that
Speaker 1: have adapted that technology to work in the field. Um
Speaker 1: It also contained a lock pick in the antenna. It
Speaker 1: was an electronic lock pick, and you could put the
Speaker 1: lock pick in a lock and you press the key
Speaker 1: on the phone it would cause it to pick a
Speaker 1: lock automatically. And it also was um uh twenty volts
Speaker 1: stunned gun, so you could zap people if they wanted
Speaker 1: to run up your minutes. And it could do one
Speaker 1: other thing. It was a remote control. It was a
Speaker 1: remote control for Bonds BMW. First of all BMW car. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was a little bit irked by that too. Um
Speaker 1: but but the part where it was a remote control
Speaker 1: that you know, could could let the car locate Bond
Speaker 1: and drive itself to him is technology that people are
Speaker 1: very much working on right right now. Yeah, we've talked
Speaker 1: about autonomous cars in the past. This is truly an
Speaker 1: autonomous car that could you know, it could identify the
Speaker 1: signal where Bond was and then plan out a route
Speaker 1: and drive to him. Obviously, going in a straight line
Speaker 1: would not necessarily work if there were say, you know,
Speaker 1: lakes or buildings or something in the way. So it
Speaker 1: actually to be able to navigate right and and as
Speaker 1: that kind of technology gets better, I we were not
Speaker 1: quite there yet except an extreme prototype phase. But yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, as Stephen on Facebook requested that one. So
Speaker 1: also this was you know, we weren't the only ones
Speaker 1: who got a little miffed about the Aston Martin going
Speaker 1: away and the BMW coming in. That ended up being
Speaker 1: a kind of a sticking point for a few people.
Speaker 1: BMW would stick around for a little bit. But uh,
Speaker 1: don't worry. If you guys love your British cars, you'll
Speaker 1: you'll get pay off a little bit later, there was
Speaker 1: also a bad guy who had a wrist band grappling hook,
Speaker 1: So it was something that you could fire from the
Speaker 1: wrist band, had a little python or peton if you're British,
Speaker 1: that would fly out and embed into something, and it
Speaker 1: had a high tension strength wire connected to it so
Speaker 1: you could swing on it or climb. In this case
Speaker 1: it was a character who could uh use it to
Speaker 1: run down a vertical surface. Um, you know, because that's
Speaker 1: how that happens in Bond movies. Um. It's one of
Speaker 1: those things that I questioned the legitimacy of only from
Speaker 1: the sense of we could make a wrist mounted device
Speaker 1: that could fire something, in fact, fire something hard enough
Speaker 1: to to hurt or kill somebody, certainly, but to fire
Speaker 1: something so hard that it embeds in a very tough
Speaker 1: material like stone and his high tensile enough that you
Speaker 1: could furthermore climb up right, I mean that's a lot
Speaker 1: of maybe exactly because I mean, not only does it
Speaker 1: have to be strong enough to to penetrate, right, it
Speaker 1: has to be strong enough to carry the weight of
Speaker 1: the line. Like. That's a lot of that's a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff you've got to figure out. So that this
Speaker 1: thing will work the way it's supposed to wear, the
Speaker 1: same problem I have with some of Batman's stuff. I
Speaker 1: think that's a different podcast. I think I think we
Speaker 1: should that is a different podcast something. I think that
Speaker 1: we should call whoever created that and be like, so
Speaker 1: we have the space elevator idea that we're trying to work.
Speaker 1: So if you've got enough of that wire that apparently
Speaker 1: is incredibly strong, let's use it for something else. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about that that moves on to the world is
Speaker 1: not Enough, which is I recall, is James Bond's family motto?
Speaker 1: Was it? Yeah, the world is not enough? That's that's
Speaker 1: the Bond family crest. If I'm if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 1: I could be. I'm totally speaking from memory here. It
Speaker 1: was made another pierced brass and in film, all right,
Speaker 1: we had yet another wristwatch with a grappling hook, and
Speaker 1: and they also had eyeglasses that incorporated X ray technology,
Speaker 1: so you could look at people and turn on the
Speaker 1: X ray specs and they were X rayspects where you
Speaker 1: could actually see if someone was carrying a gun. I'm
Speaker 1: sure Bond also used it for other purposes. I feel
Speaker 1: like that's likely. Um And of course, again miniaturization of
Speaker 1: the technology is an issue, and also the whole cancer thing.
Speaker 1: Where radiation is radiation, Yeah, it's it's ionizing radiation, which
Speaker 1: means that it's not good for us to be around
Speaker 1: non ionizing that's okay for the most part, I think
Speaker 1: not okay. Yeah. However, there are some infrared glasses that
Speaker 1: exist and can be used for for similar fifty stuff.
Speaker 1: Just this year, a vascular imaging goggles were released that
Speaker 1: can help medical professionals like locate a vein for for
Speaker 1: blood samples or etcetera. Pretty awesome, which is pretty awesome. Um.
Speaker 1: And and of course we've got photon cameras that can
Speaker 1: help us see around corners. We talked about that in
Speaker 1: a Fred Thinking episode about how it measures the time
Speaker 1: it takes for light to come back around. Like a
Speaker 1: portion of the light hits an open doorway and goes
Speaker 1: into a room, and some of that light gets reflected back,
Speaker 1: hits the doorway again gets reflected back toward the camera,
Speaker 1: and by measuring the the amount of time those individual
Speaker 1: photons took to go out and come back, a camera
Speaker 1: can actually reconstruct what is inside the room next door
Speaker 1: without having a clear line of sight inside it, which
Speaker 1: is crazy, but it's real. It's not X ray glasses.
Speaker 1: It's never going to be X ray glasses. A yeah,
Speaker 1: but I saw on the back of this comic book
Speaker 1: is guys holding up his hand. He's got this crazy
Speaker 1: look on his face. Looks like Drew Carey. However, things
Speaker 1: that I think are definitely up and coming um bagpipes
Speaker 1: that can hold machine guns and flamethrowers. Look, aren't bagpipes
Speaker 1: deadly enough already? Do we really need to add more
Speaker 1: killing power to bagpipes with q okay or should I say? Ah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That was another one of those things seen in Queues
Speaker 1: Lab is this guy with a set of bagpipes that
Speaker 1: turn into a machine gun in flamethrower, because you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's exactly what we need, are more highlanders with
Speaker 1: high high caliber weapons, all right. They also this was
Speaker 1: also one of those things that when I saw it,
Speaker 1: I was like, this is this is hilarious, And yet
Speaker 1: there's a real world technology that's similar to what was
Speaker 1: shown on the screen. So James Bond's wearing the ski jacket,
Speaker 1: there's this whole chase scene where he's driving what's essentially
Speaker 1: a snowmobile with a parachute and a fan on the
Speaker 1: back of it so that can fly in places. And
Speaker 1: he's being chased by bad guys who are also on
Speaker 1: these things. And then he and a lady are on
Speaker 1: this this icy area where uh, and the spot above
Speaker 1: them is breaking apart. It's gonna cause like a little avalanche.
Speaker 1: It's going to crush them in a second. And so
Speaker 1: quickly James Bond grabs the lady and uh the and
Speaker 1: hits something on his jacket which inflates this ball around them.
Speaker 1: So they get surrounded by this big inflatable ball and
Speaker 1: uh and sort of like a zorb one of those
Speaker 1: big inflatd ones that you could run around inside, similar
Speaker 1: to that yeah, yeah, big inflata hamster ball, and that
Speaker 1: ends up providing shelter when everything falls on top of them,
Speaker 1: so that they don't get crushed by the snow and
Speaker 1: ice that falls. Um. And at first, when you look
Speaker 1: at this, you're like, oh, come on, that's just so silly. However,
Speaker 1: it's actually kind of similar. There's this, um this cool
Speaker 1: yeah just announced this year. I think there's this inflatable helmet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks like it's uh, this kind of bulky scarf
Speaker 1: that you would wear. Uh. It's the hof Ding and
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's an airbag for cyclists. And the idea
Speaker 1: is that it has this inflatable helmet that can expand
Speaker 1: rapidly if it detects a sudden change in your acceleration
Speaker 1: and cover your head in this inflatable bags so that way,
Speaker 1: if you have a crash, your head is protected, even
Speaker 1: if you're not wearing you know, even if you don't
Speaker 1: want to wear a standard So kind of cool, I
Speaker 1: mean in the sense that there is technology that's being
Speaker 1: developed right now that's similar to this, this idea that
Speaker 1: was proposed in the movie. I would think that anything
Speaker 1: potentially sharp like ice might be a bad idea for
Speaker 1: something like that. Also, the material would have to be
Speaker 1: able to withstand puncture. I also think it would it
Speaker 1: would require a lot of pressure on the inside of
Speaker 1: that that inflatable object to withstand the huge amount of
Speaker 1: weight of an avalanche like it would. It would need
Speaker 1: to be mostly rigid, right when it couldn't be like
Speaker 1: the bouncy bouncy castle sort of thing or just crush you.
Speaker 1: Moving on to die another day film, um, and that
Speaker 1: would be our last one. With Pierce Brosnan yep, and
Speaker 1: this one James Bond gets a ring that can emit
Speaker 1: an ultra high frequency single that is powerful enough to
Speaker 1: shatter bulletproof glass. Which okay, so materials have this resonant frequency,
Speaker 1: right that if you match the resonant frequency, it causes
Speaker 1: the material to start to vibrate. And MythBusters did a
Speaker 1: whole thing on this where they showed, you know, the
Speaker 1: whole idea of being able to shatter a a wine
Speaker 1: glass with your voice if you're able to sing at
Speaker 1: the right note, and they showed that at the right
Speaker 1: level of uh, not not just the right frequency, but
Speaker 1: the right volume, the right intensity, you could actually make
Speaker 1: this happen. You could. Then they shot into slow motion
Speaker 1: where you could actually see the glass deforming as it
Speaker 1: was shaking. Is really cool. However, squeezing that amount of
Speaker 1: energy into a ring is going to be difficult. Yeah,
Speaker 1: being able to project that much volume so that you
Speaker 1: are able to shatter something like a pane of glass,
Speaker 1: because I mean, if you ever watch these videos, glass
Speaker 1: can deform a surprising amount before it breaks, a really weird,
Speaker 1: scary amount. Yeah, when slow motion you look at you
Speaker 1: like that doesn't even look real, so it would. I
Speaker 1: certainly don't think you could pack that kind of wallop
Speaker 1: in a ring. No, I mean you could punch the
Speaker 1: glass of course, of its bulletproof, You're probably just gonna
Speaker 1: break your hand. But anyway, the basic concept is sound.
Speaker 1: The execution is questionable, not so much. Yeah, the Aston
Speaker 1: Martin in this one was um okay, So so we
Speaker 1: have basically we had an invisible car. Yeah. The Aston
Speaker 1: Martin Vanquish, also sometimes called the Aston Martin Vanish, there's
Speaker 1: a car that, according to the film, the idea was
Speaker 1: that had lots of these little tiny cameras all around
Speaker 1: the car, and what would happen is that it would
Speaker 1: project It would capture whatever's coming on like oncoming and
Speaker 1: projected onto the surface of the car itself, right for
Speaker 1: doing kind of an invisibility cloak sort of, the idea
Speaker 1: being that if if you're looking at the car, you're
Speaker 1: actually seeing what's on the other side of the car
Speaker 1: as opposed to car itself. This worked for everything, not
Speaker 1: just the not just the car's body, but the wheels,
Speaker 1: the glass, the windows, the windshield, everything was was completely
Speaker 1: cloaked and when it moved, it moved like you know,
Speaker 1: like the clingon Starship and star Trek right um, and okay,
Speaker 1: so I mean researchers and artists have in fact come
Speaker 1: up with invisibility cloaks that work on similar principles, but
Speaker 1: not at Aston Martin road speeds really and and to
Speaker 1: be fair to James Bond, at first, when you see this,
Speaker 1: the cars not moving, it's still. But then it does
Speaker 1: start to move and it's moving perfectly fine, like you
Speaker 1: see the shimmer as it moves. But it's not like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like not like it's not like
Speaker 1: the stuff on the car is lagging behind three seconds
Speaker 1: from what is actually around it, right right, um, right now.
Speaker 1: The best technology for this kind of thing is on
Speaker 1: the micrometer scale, you know, carbon nanotube stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And also a lot of the stuff we think of
Speaker 1: as invisibility cloaks right now is really for bands of
Speaker 1: light that we personally cannot see. It's just that out
Speaker 1: from a laboratory standpoint, certain types of light will pass
Speaker 1: through as opposed to reflecting off. It's just not in
Speaker 1: the visible spectrum. Yeah, and and that was a request
Speaker 1: from a couple of people on Facebook, Richard and Monty.
Speaker 1: Now it also, of course, had your standard James Bond
Speaker 1: equipment objector seat, which in this film James Bond uses
Speaker 1: to flip the car from being upside down on its
Speaker 1: hood back to being right side up. The objector seat
Speaker 1: provides the flippy flip. Yeah. Yeah, MythBusters tested part of
Speaker 1: that as part of that that episode that they did
Speaker 1: about and missed that part. I totally forgot that part
Speaker 1: of the You know, I don't think I've ever seen
Speaker 1: Die another Day. I've seen the clips, right, I've seen
Speaker 1: the clips of this particular scene because and I just
Speaker 1: remember yelling, oh, come on like times. And then I've
Speaker 1: had the standard you know, machine gun torpedoes right right, yeah,
Speaker 1: all that stuff that you know James Bond has he
Speaker 1: can't leave home without. So moving on, we've got uh, well,
Speaker 1: you got the boring Bond right Casino Royale with this
Speaker 1: Daniel Craig person. This this was a two thousand six films.
Speaker 1: He's dreamy, I can't lie. So yeah, there's a new
Speaker 1: West and Martin in this one, the dbs V twelve.
Speaker 1: She also had a whole bunch of high tech uh
Speaker 1: first aid gear that was all stored in the glove compartment.
Speaker 1: So nothing like super Crazy in this one, and a
Speaker 1: lot of this was the idea of going back to
Speaker 1: James Bond and kind of grounding the character a little
Speaker 1: bit more more gritty. Yeah. I I liked this entire
Speaker 1: recent reboot with with Daniel Craig. I thought it was
Speaker 1: a little bit it's a little bit over aud at times,
Speaker 1: but that's okay. But and they still have cutting edge
Speaker 1: technology and in some cases cutting edge technology that outstrips
Speaker 1: what we can currently do. But that's not it's not
Speaker 1: so much a as goofy, yeah, and it's not as
Speaker 1: right um. One of the other bits of tech from
Speaker 1: this movie was an implanted microchip that could act as
Speaker 1: both a homing device and a like a a biometric
Speaker 1: monitor of UM, which also could send that info back
Speaker 1: out to m I six Yeah, which again is a
Speaker 1: little little tricky, like how do you create a transmitter
Speaker 1: with the size of a pencil eraser that can also
Speaker 1: transmit this stuff. Not that there aren't, you know, implantable
Speaker 1: technologies that that are totally dissimilar to this. We do
Speaker 1: have things that are similar, but they work on very
Speaker 1: very short range. The idea is that's when you can
Speaker 1: actually monitor the patient in person as opposed to when
Speaker 1: when you can kind of poke a instrument directly at
Speaker 1: their are rather than rather than you know, five miles away.
Speaker 1: There was also a touchscreen table in m I six,
Speaker 1: which uh, you know Microsoft had something like as of
Speaker 1: two thousand eight. Yeah, the Surface table. The you know
Speaker 1: before there was the Surface tablet. Dear friends, there was
Speaker 1: the Microsoft Surface table, which is when when they called
Speaker 1: the tablet Microsoft Surface again. That was also when I
Speaker 1: threw my hands up in the air and said, oh,
Speaker 1: come on, I don't do it us to James Bond.
Speaker 1: I also do it to Microsoft. What I said, you
Speaker 1: already have a product called the Surface and it's a tabe.
Speaker 1: It's confusing. It's hard for me to write about this.
Speaker 1: You're making my articles not be relevant anymore. You got
Speaker 1: to you got to play with one of those at
Speaker 1: one of those Yes, yeah, yeah, they had one where
Speaker 1: they was on it was on display that back then,
Speaker 1: Microsoft had a presence at c Yes, they used to
Speaker 1: have a booth and they had the Microsoft Surface there
Speaker 1: and you could play with it. In fact, there were
Speaker 1: a couple of different booths that had a Microsoft Surface.
Speaker 1: I think, um, oh what it was like Intel or
Speaker 1: something else. Also had one. So the neat thing about
Speaker 1: the surface was had the multi touch capability. And this
Speaker 1: was before you saw that in everything, right, So it
Speaker 1: was one of those um implementations that was really cool.
Speaker 1: So this this was kind of predicting that as well.
Speaker 1: Moving on to Quantum of Solace, Craig's second film that
Speaker 1: came out in two thousand eight. Uh So, and again
Speaker 1: we have another magical telephone in a way, so this
Speaker 1: one could create a composite photo of a subject even
Speaker 1: if Bond only got like a profile shot. So if
Speaker 1: you got a shot from the side of someone, this
Speaker 1: phone could reconstruct that person's entire face, including the side
Speaker 1: that was not facing the camera. And this this is
Speaker 1: one of my personal pet peeves. And and uh it's
Speaker 1: that whole zoom and enhanced concept where I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: if the camera hasn't recorded that information, it cannot give you.
Speaker 1: The best we can do is assume that you have
Speaker 1: an incredibly symmetrical face. And therefore, if like James Bond,
Speaker 1: encounters you know, mostly supermodels, then in that universe it's
Speaker 1: actually very effective. To be fair, Lauren, James Bond does
Speaker 1: encounter supermodels. This is what I'm saying you know, that's
Speaker 1: that's okay. Never never mind where if James Bond took
Speaker 1: a picture of me and profile, however, it would that
Speaker 1: you'd be like, Wow, who's that devastatingly handsome gentleman? And
Speaker 1: then you see me and like that cannot be the
Speaker 1: guy that's in this picture because that guy's nose is
Speaker 1: all crooked and stuff. I had a tough childhood. Um yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: it was. It's not that this technology is totally beyond us,
Speaker 1: but it is one of those things where I don't
Speaker 1: I would highly suspect the reliability of any picture that
Speaker 1: is completely created from just a portion of someone's face. Um. Now,
Speaker 1: we have seen interesting scanning technology with people using something
Speaker 1: like the Connect where they do a very slow turn
Speaker 1: and it gives a full three D scan of a
Speaker 1: person's head. But in that case, you're talking about the
Speaker 1: device that's actually getting data from all points, right, it's
Speaker 1: not just one side all right. Then when it comes
Speaker 1: up to Skyfall, the as of right now, most recent
Speaker 1: film in the James Bond franchise that came out in
Speaker 1: and also starred Mr Craig, Mr Dreamy Craig and um
Speaker 1: and and this this film was very much stressing that
Speaker 1: kind of stripped down aesthetic versus especially some of the
Speaker 1: earlier goofy or nineteen eighties films um uh and and
Speaker 1: so they kind of make a bit out of it
Speaker 1: when when bonding the new queue made up for the
Speaker 1: first time, um uh Q gives him this little box
Speaker 1: and all it contains is a Walter PPK and and
Speaker 1: ah in a little radio transmitter and and bonds like
Speaker 1: that's it, like like not exactly Christmas, is it? However,
Speaker 1: his his gun does have a a scanner on the handle,
Speaker 1: so it only bond can fire it, all right, right,
Speaker 1: it's a little pom print reader thing, yeah, which which
Speaker 1: which is technically possible, although it would be harder um
Speaker 1: on a on a mechanical device than it would have
Speaker 1: been on on a digital So if you have some
Speaker 1: sort of digital safety, digitize the safety or something. If
Speaker 1: you if you make the safety completely separate from a
Speaker 1: mechanical approach and you make it an electronic approach, I
Speaker 1: could see that like if it's it's engaged unless the
Speaker 1: quote unquote right person is holding the gun. Um that
Speaker 1: would That's the only way I could imagine that making sense.
Speaker 1: I'll give that one to que Um. And it also
Speaker 1: we also see a return of the Aston Martin dB
Speaker 1: five um, like the like the super classic one with
Speaker 1: all of the super classic stuff pretty much from Goldfinger,
Speaker 1: which you know, to be fair, Skyfall had a lot
Speaker 1: of little nods to some of the earlier Bond films,
Speaker 1: like you you would actually you know, see examples of
Speaker 1: some of the stuff that appeared in earlier Bond films
Speaker 1: just kind of uh surreptitiously hidden in the in the scene,
Speaker 1: not something that was you know, paraded out in front
Speaker 1: of you, but that That's one of those cool things
Speaker 1: is seeing them pay homage to this rich past that
Speaker 1: James Bond has accumulated, even as they go forward and
Speaker 1: potentially go back and and recreate some of these older stories.
Speaker 1: So it's possible that we'll see some of these older
Speaker 1: stories reimagined in new form um. Some of them may
Speaker 1: just be completely written, you know, from scratch. Some of
Speaker 1: the James Bond films are not based off of any
Speaker 1: flaming novel. But maybe some of the future ones will
Speaker 1: be just reimagined versions of that. Yeah, and I'm really
Speaker 1: curious to see how I mean, as we keep saying,
Speaker 1: as we have been saying throughout these two episodes, Um,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of this stuff that was crazy
Speaker 1: revolutionary sci fi tech in the nineteen sixties is stuff
Speaker 1: that's on our smartphones. Yeah, we just take it for
Speaker 1: granted as we can whip out a phone and do
Speaker 1: exactly what James Bond had to struggle to do back then. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm looking forward to seeing what new
Speaker 1: stuff of these these nice, nice creators come up with
Speaker 1: her Bond to have ridiculous new gadgets in the future. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: I'm going to see the John d double O seven
Speaker 1: original spy movie. Oh man, I would watch that, except
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it already came out and it was
Speaker 1: called Hudson Hawk. I was gonna say it was called
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