Real life James Bond 007 Gadgets

Great article on James Bond gadgets that have since come into reality.

http://gizmodo.com/5966242/10-james-bond-gadgets-that-actually-existand-one-that-needs-to

However, I still yearn for this one:

The Lotus Esprit that goes underwater!

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - Gadgets of the future of Products of today?

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!

End of the i-Pod?

The new Sony A-Series Walkman is being launched and is quite clearly the thinnest personal music player yet. How will this affect the market leader, Apple's i-Pod?

The Japanese corporation famous for the original personal music player seems to be finally hitting back at the mp3 players and i-pods that have killed firstly their tape deck walkman and then the CD diskman.

For more information read these articles:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/opinion/1533918/the-ipod-age

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2009/09/_walkman_vs_ipo.html