| While many people dream
about Bond's sartorial, gambling, and sexual skills, they
also dream about his gadgets: the Walther PPK gun, golden
guns, ray guns, and rocket-firing cigarettes; spy shaving
kit, poisonous shoes, homing device buttons; Geiger counter
wrist watch, television wrist watch, buzz saw wrist watch;
decoders, voice synthesizers, cameras, decapitating tea
trays, killer hookahs, moonbuggies, underwater propulsion
devices, mini-jets, and cars cars cars. And that's just
a small glimpse at the vast array of super-science gadgets
issued by Q Division to Agent 007.
This book is about the gadgets, the science,
the cars, and the technology. How realistic are James Bond's
adventures and all the equipment that goes with them? How
believable is Jaws, who chews through metal? Just how easy
is it to crack into all those top-secret facilities to save
the world? Is James Bond rooted in science, or are his adventures
and the technology that fills them science fiction?
This book answers the question that moviegoers
find themselves asking after watching the newest Bond movies
- possible or impossible? Most chapters are wrapped
around a Bond gadget - whether it’s his cars,
his explosives, or his super secret messages.
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