1. Portable phones (Live And Let Die, From Russia With Love)
Throughout the films of the James Bond franchise, three things have always made Bond a wish-fulfillment object of envy: his savoir-faire under fire, his ability to instantly woo beautiful women, and his ridiculous array of high-tech gadgetry. But since Bond has been in film for more than 50 years now, real technology has caught up with some of his early gear, to the point where average people now could, if they wanted, acquire or jury-rig some of the gimmicks that seemed like far-fetched fiction in the past. For instance, time has overtaken the big, clunky car phone in From Russia With Love, which at the time seemed revolutionary because Bond could actually receive a call from the road. Even fancier: Live And Let Die’s miniaturized radio-phone, which was sooo tiny, it could be concealed inside an ordinary oversized ...
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