What a difference a year makes!
Today
I've been watching M:I4 starring Tom Cruise as IMF agent Ethan Hunt who after
being wrongly blamed for the bombing of the Kremlin has to stop a fanatic from
using Russian nuclear submarine launch codes to start WWIII!
The film is gadget packed, something that James Bond has seem to have forgotten
of late. What I found incredible is that there are 2 gadgets in the movie that up
until this year were seen as pure sci-fi.
Up
first is the contact lenses which scan for data and give valuable intel to the
IMF agents when needed. When I first saw it I did think it was a bit OTT, but
isn't this just exactly what Google's Project Glass is?
Then
we have the famous masks which first appeared in the 1996 movie, which when I
saw that back then it seemed so far out as to be ridiculous. However, in the
recent movies they showed how the masks were made... and guess what? It is the
same principle as 3D printers!
Truly remarkable!
It reminds me of the story of how the communicator in Star Trek inspired
inventors to come up with the cellphone or mobile phone as we call it in the
UK.
So I wonder what new things scriptwriters will come up with that will soon
become reality.
Though the invisible Aston Martin from Die Another Day may take a while yet!
