Along with Bond girls, scenic global locations
and a cool spy in a well-fitting tuxedo who orders his drinks shaken, not
stirred, the one thing that almost all James Bond films have in common is cool
gadgets. Most of the films even have scenes showing the super spy heading over
to the special gadget shop where the unshakable Q outfits him with the latest
in deadly and diabolic accoutrements. This two-part series form the history
channel helps make the connection from what Bond used in the movies to what
real inventors and scientists have created in the real world. The similarities
are amazing – yes there really is a jet pack – but the coolest part about the series
is the way art imitates life, and vice versa. Some of the gadgets in the movies
were so cool that real government agents were calling up the producers to see where
they could get them, while sometimes it was the actual government designers who
came up with something so cool the movie producers made sure they were the
first ones to reveal it to the public. The series suffers from a lack of actual
clips from the films to illustrate how Bond used the gadgets, but fans can easily
go watch the films and see for themselves.
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