The 15 Best Bond Gadgets of All Time

By popsci Posted 12.08.2006 at 1:39 pm 104 Comments

Briefcase
From 007’s jetpack in Thunderball
to his iconic laser-equipped Omega watch, the James Bond movie
franchise has always had its finger on the pulse of its audience’s
gadget lust. We at PopSci were a bit disappointed at the dearth of gizmos in this year’s Casino Royale (which for some reason—cha-ching—were
mostly made by Sony), but our discussion about the current film sparked
a debate in the office about spy gear from Bond films past. Which was
the sexiest weapon? (The venom boots in From Russia With Love.)
The best vehicle? (Depends whether you want your car to swim or fly.)
The deadliest accessory? (Gotta be that briefcase.) In the end, we
compiled a list of our 15 favorite Bond gadgets of all time. Peruse
them in the photo gallery, here. —Fred Koschmann

Share your own favorites with us in the comments section below.

Launch the photo gallery.

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Erik (imported)
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 12/09/06 at 12:06 am

This is a great list, with one minor correction, the Aston Martin is the DB5, not a DBS.

Oh yeah, I don't really think the Walther PPK is a"gadget".

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Terence Pua (i...
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 12/09/06 at 3:02 pm

The jetpack in Thunderball was very cool indeed but...

Although Sean C. starred in it and was called James Bond, technically, it is not part of the Bond franchise :(

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Matt (imported)
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 12/09/06 at 5:12 pm

THUNDERBALL was most definitely part of the official, Cubby Broccoli Bond franchise. You're probably thinking of NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN, the weird one-off non-Broccoli Bond movie starring Connery and based on the THUNDERBALL story.

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subcorpus (imp...
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 12/09/06 at 5:58 pm

my favorite will always be the car ...
its loaded and kewl ...
rather well stocked ... hehe ...

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t money (imported)
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 12/10/06 at 11:49 am

wow there are deff. better gadgets than that thats one of the worst top what evers i have ever sceen

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 12/10/06 at 12:27 pm

[...]The 15 Best Bond Gadgets of All Time[...]

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michael gray (...
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 12/10/06 at 6:51 pm

You TOTALLY forgot the jetski from Spy Who Loved Me! Maybe I'm too old, but most of America had never seen one of these contraptions in 1977.

While everything else in the movie was fluff and fiction. But when people learned that the jet-ski was an ACTUAL WORKING PRODUCT, sales of the item boomed. Kawasaki had only JUST started mass producing the jet-ski in 1976. The movie almost single handedly launched the entire personal water craft industry!

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gw (imported)
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 12/11/06 at 12:31 pm

Erik, You have to research your comments. Its a DBS not a DB5 http://www.astonmartin.com/ENG/thecompany/news?a=93e7cb17-0939-4ca9-a004...

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J-Box (imported)
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 12/11/06 at 12:37 pm

Although "Little Nellie" will always be high on my list, it's the little gadgets I enjoyed the most, from the micro-breathing apparatus in Thunderball to the pen bomb in Goldeneye; talk about hard to keep track of whether the thing was armed or not with Boris clicking away compulsively!

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gw (imported)
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 12/11/06 at 12:37 pm

Ahem, I mean DB5 not DBS. Where is the delete button on this thing.

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