Think James Bond, and once your mind’s eye has passed over the womanizing spy clad in tailored suits, Aston Martins, vodka martinis, the Walther PPK, (mostly) Rolex and Omega watches, and all manner of pseudo innuendos and wisecracks, you’ll be left thinking of the gadgets.
From credit cards with lockpicks and tiny cameras to machine guns in bagpipes and exploding pens, Bond, Q Branch, and enemies of all shapes and sizes have never been short of a gadget or two. But in recent years, Bond has eschewed some of the more ridiculous gadgets for more practical devices, including modified dumb and smartphones based on devices you could actually buy at the time; we even have a list of every phone James Bond has used.
