The Bond effect: How 007's gadgets jumped from the screen into real life

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Vijay Anand Raju
TNNUpdated: Aug 25, 2025, 12:19 IST IST

Jetpacks, smartwatches, laser weapons, DNA-targeting techniques: 007’s toys tread a fine line between fiction and foreshadowing. Many futuristic, real-life innovations have been, directly or otherwise, inspired by James Bond

When Sean Connery nonchalantly lit a cigarette and coolly bet on baccarat in

Dr No

(1962), few could have predicted that James Bond’s penchant for gadgetry would set the gold standard for technological aspiration across both pop culture and real-world espionage.

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