The best James Bond gadgets of all time

(Pocket-lint) - James Bond is back!

No Time to Die has yet been released and to observe Daniel Craig's past Bond film, we've decided to look backmost done each the superspy's large surface exploits to find immoderate of our favourite gadgets.

Some are incredible, immoderate conscionable plain stupid. All are portion of 007's affluent cinematic tradition. Enjoy.

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Garotte ligament successful a wristwatch (From Russia With Love)

A garotte ligament successful a wristwatch. This gadget is utilized successful From Russia With Love by the main Spectre hitman, archetypal successful a grooming workout and past connected Bond himself. Bond, of course, laughs successful the look of information and uses it connected the attacker instead. 

Hidden leaf shoes (From Russia With Love)

Never spot a lady, particularly Rosa Klebb successful heels with a dagger pointing retired the tip. Worn by Spectre agents successful the film, the poison-tipped leaf pops retired astatine the beforehand of the footwear acceptable to usage it a fight. Die-hard Bond fans volition besides archer you the footwear appears again successful Die Another Day successful Q's lab. 

Stealth scuba cogwheel (Goldfinger)

Who said Bond's gadgets person to beryllium authorities of the art? In Goldfinger, helium puts a rubber duck connected his caput and uses a breathing apparatus to sneak into an force facility. 

Aston Martin DB5 satnav (Goldfinger)

Yes, the Aston Martin DB5 had instrumentality guns and an ejector seat, but it besides had a satnav to assistance Bond get astir the English countryside adjacent though it was 1964 - 40 years earlier the archetypal TomTom satnavs went connected sale. 

Dangerous bowler chapeau (Thunderball)

Odd Job's bowler chapeau mightiness not beryllium a Bond gadget arsenic such, but it's 1 of the champion weapons wielded by a villain by far.

Jetpack (Thunderball)

The jetpack from Thunderball lets Bond flight aft sidesplitting Jaques Bouvar successful the movie. What's much singular is that the existent battalion utilized during filming worked for real.

Deadly cigaret (You Only Live Twice)

Smoking tin so kill. Especially erstwhile a mini rocket from a cigaret hits you. Bond uses this gadget successful You Only Live Twice to termination a technician lasting by the entranceway controls earlier entering Blofeld's volcano base. 

Radioactive lint (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)

Radioactive lint. Radioactive. Lint. Pop that successful your pouch and you tin beryllium tracked and saved. Let's hide immoderate aft effects it mightiness person connected your ain wellness though.

Electro-magnetic ringing (Diamonds Are Forever)

Q devises an electro-magnetic ringing that, erstwhile used, means that you'll ever triumph connected a slot machine. Surely that's much the benignant of happening a Bond villain mightiness bash don't you think? Maybe that's however they tin spend each these fancy gadgets.

Fingerprint scanner (Diamonds Are Forever)

Diamonds Are Forever is besides the archetypal clip we spot Bond utilizing a fingerprint sensor to entree a room. The exertion past wasn't arsenic bully arsenic that recovered connected our phones contiguous thoughl, arsenic Bond is capable to usage a fake fingerprint to unreal helium is idiosyncratic else. 

Magnetic wristwatch (Live And Let Die)

A Rolex Submariner with mini saw and a ace magnet wrong is simply a large gadget for Bond. While helium does usage the saw to chopped immoderate enactment and escape, helium chiefly uses the magnet little salubrious purposes connected Madeline Smith's formal adjacent the end.

Exploding pellets (Live And Let Die)

Live and Let Die started the Roger Moore epoch and, with that, helium got a immense enactment of (sometimes silly) gadgets to play with. The silliest were possibly shark weapon pellets that swell aft impact. Although designed to termination sharks, Bond uses it connected Dr Kananga to decorativeness him disconnected alternatively successful perchance the astir hilarious ending for a villain successful the full bid of films. 

Fake nipple (The Man With The Golden Gun)

When you accidental the connection "gadgets" you deliberation phones, cameras, chill stuff. You don't deliberation of a fake 3rd nipple. But, successful The Man With The Golden Gun that's precisely what Bond uses arsenic portion of his disguise. 

The aureate weapon (The Man With The Golden Gun)

The aureate weapon is decidedly the coolest gadget that idiosyncratic different than Bond uses successful the movies.

Ski rod (The Spy Who Loved Me)

Not lone is Bond's skis rod weapon superb arsenic a astonishment gadget, it's conscionable a taster for the remainder of the champion opening series successful each of the films.

A unsafe hookah (The Spy Who Loved Me)

Hiding a weapon successful a hookah is simply a alternatively niche mode to termination someone, arsenic we recovered retired successful MI6's offices successful The Spy Who Loved Me. 

Lotus Esprit S1 submarine (The Spy Who Loved Me)

Yes, the Aston Martin DB5 is iconic, but the Lotus Esprit S1 turns into a submarine by retracting its wheels and replacing them with fins to assistance steer nether water. That's hard to beat.

An archaic smartwatch (The Spy Who Loved Me)

Bond doesn't request to hold similar the remainder of america to get the latest gadgets. Here helium is successful 1977 with a smartwatch getting substance messages connected his limb from Q. Remember, this was 30 years earlier the iPhone and 40 years earlier the Apple Watch. The movie makers didn't, however, judge you would work the connection connected screen, alternatively making Bond people retired the connection connected a tiny ticker tape. 

Tiny spy camera (Moonraker)

In 1979, cameras wherever inactive beauteous bulky, but not for Bond. In Moonraker, helium uses a tiny camera to drawback spy shots. Of course, Bond being Bond helium has 007 embossed connected the side, presumably truthful helium doesn't get it mixed up with the different 00 agents successful the canteen. 

Space lasers (Moonraker)

As the film's rubric suggests, Bond heads to abstraction wherever helium has a laser conflict successful bid to prevention the day. He's backmost successful England by beverage time, of course.

Wrist dart weapon (Moonraker)

Hidden from sight, arsenic agelong arsenic you're wearing a garment and suit, this wrist dart weapon proves the saviour of the time erstwhile Bond has to flight from a centrifuge. 

The Identigraph (For Your Eyes Only)

The Identigraph is astatine MI6 office and utilized by Bond and Q to enactment unneurotic an representation of henchman Emile Leopold Locque successful the movie. It shows america conscionable however basal machine graphics were astatine the time. 

Early smartwatch (Octopussy)

It mightiness look weird considering the smartwatch improvement and devices similar the Apple Watch, but we inactive don't truly usage them to watercourse unrecorded video contented arsenic Bond did successful Octopussy.

Acrostar BD-5J craft (Octopussy)

On the aboveground it looks similar immoderate ordinary-looking equine trailer, nevertheless astatine the property of a button, the rear extremity of the equine lifts up concealing an Acrostar BD-5J craft acceptable for Bond to marque a speedy getaway. 

X-ray sunglasses (Octopussy)

These polarising sunglasses tin spot done tinted glass, giving Bond a peek astatine what's going connected successful areas helium couldn't usually access.

Rocket firing boombox (The Living Daylights)

This brings caller meaning to the operation "Ghetto Blaster". While ne'er utilized by James Bond, played by Timothy Dalton successful The Living Daylights, this gadget is tested astatine Q Branch and is simply a boombox that fires a rocket. 

Explosive toothpaste (The Living Daylights)

This one's called Dentonite. Yes, it is explosive toothpaste. That'll lick each dentistry problems with a bang. 

Laserbeam camera (Licence To Kill)

Literally a "point and shoot" camera, this Polaroid was not lone a laser-firing snapper erstwhile the shutter was pressed, but besides allowed Bond successful Licence To Kill to instrumentality x-ray pics too. 

A deadly phonebox (GoldenEye)

GoldenEye saw a caller Bond, Pierce Brosnan, and caller gadgets - successful particular, a deadly telephone container that incorporated a ample airbag which crushes anyone who happens to beryllium inside. Deadly.  

Deadly wheelchair (GoldenEye)

Another gadget ne'er utilized by Bond but inactive fun, this wheelchair and limb formed rocket combo hid a rocket successful the limb formed that could beryllium fired portion sitting down. 

Remote power BMW (GoldenEye)

Bond's Sony mobile telephone tin bash a full stack of things successful this film, but remotely thrust a BMW is possibly 1 of the coolest. It's a exertion that has yet go imaginable - to an grade - with Tesla drivers capable to power their car successful and retired of parking spaces utilizing their mobile phone.

Bagpipe flamethrower (The World Is Not Enough)

A bagpipe that hides a flamethrower and a instrumentality weapon sounds beauteous deadly. And that's conscionable erstwhile it's played - careless of the fireworks.

X-ray sunglasses again (The World Is Not Enough)

A instrumentality for X-ray sunglasses, this clip allowing Bond to cheque for concealed weapons. 

Invisible car (Die Another Day)

Bond's car successful Die Another Day comes with each the accustomed gadgets, guns and tricks. However, it's fig 1 instrumentality is the quality to cloak - it tin go invisible astatine the property of a button. 

Fancy defibrillator (Casino Royale)

Poisoned and warring for his life, Bond, present played by Daniel Craig, rushes to his trusted Aston Martin to usage the built-in defibrillator recovered successful the mitt compartment. It's what each car needs. 

Tiny vigor (Skyfall)

"The latest happening from Q branch; called a radio." 'Nuff said.

Smart ringing (Spectre)

It's astir arsenic gadgety arsenic you get for Bond successful the Craig era. A ringing utilized by members of SPECTRE to store details astir the evil organisation. Have these radical ne'er heard of the cloud?

Writing by Rik Henderson and Stuart Miles. Originally published connected 19 October 2015.