The Connery Era gadgets were the first of their kind - original, snarky, and destructive (much like Connery himself at times!). Many of the gadgets are ordinary, everyday items that conceal deadly weapons and ingenious devices like cyanide-laced or rocket-firing cigarettes, bookshelf transmitters, a briefcase with a hidden gold stash and throwing knife, and a cake bomb. If you're James Bond in the Connery era, NOTHING is as it seems.
| Cyanide-Laced Cigarette: (featured in Dr. No) |
As Bond is questioning
Mr. Jones, one of
Dr. No's agents in Kingston, Jones asks Bond for a cigarette. Bond agrees and then Jones swallows the cigarette that's laced with cyanide.
| Bookshelf Transmitter Station: (featured in Dr. No) |
This short wave transmitter station, used by
Strangways and his secretary
Mary Prescott to contact MI6 in London, is hidden behind a false bookshelf.
| Car Phone Pager: (featured in From Russia With Love) |
This device is another gadget by
Q, invented way ahead of its time. When Bond and
Sylvia Trench are along the river in the beginning, this pager beeps to notify Bond he has a call on his car phone.
| Attache Case: (featured in From Russia With Love) |
The attache case contains two rods of ammunition hidden the bottom and a throwing knife hidden in the side. Inside the case is a three-piece sniper rifle. Also, a can of talcum powder with a tear gas cartridge inside it is placed inside and will explode in the person's face should the case be opened improperly, but will not explode if opened correctly. The tear gas cartridge explodes in
Red Grant's face when he opens it during his and Bond's fight on the train.
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| Two hollow rods full of 20 rounds of ammunition each pop out of the bottom of the case. | The ammunition can be removed when the top of the rod is twisted off. |
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| A flat throwing knife pops out of the side. | Inside the case is a three-piece AR7 Sniper Rifle |
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| The Gun consist of three part that attach together to form the sniper rifle. | When each strap is pulled out there are 50 gold sovereigns, 25 on each strap. |
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| A can of talcum powder with a tear gas cartridge is placed inside, held up magnetically. It will explode if the case is opened wrong. | If the case is opened with the catches vertical, the cartridge will explode in the person's face. |
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| If the catches are twisted horizontally first, and then opened, the cartridge will not explode. |
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| Homing Device: (featured in Goldfinger) |
In
Goldfinger (1964),
Q gives Bond a few gadgets. He gives Bond a
1964 Aston Martin DB5 packed with gadgets and he gives him a Homer. This device is like a radar you place in or on something and you can follow that object. There are two Homer's, one is large and Bond place's that in
Goldfinger's Rolls Royce and follows it (by watching his car on a radar screen in his car) and there's a small one which magnetic like the larger one. This Homer is placed in the heel of Bond's shoe and then later in
Mr. Solo's pocket with a small note to
Felix (who is can also follow the Homer just like Bond). The Homer, like many other Bond gadgets went missing in action.
Though this bed is common in houses with limited space, this one is quickly operated at the press of a button. Bond gets trapped when he's on the bed and is when he gets "killed".
The enemy uses this radio to keep Henderson, Bond's contact in Japan, informed of his arrival.
Bond uses this to break into
Osato's safe. As Bond turns the dial on the safe, when a correct number is found, a white light shines. When this happens, Bond presses a button and a red number appears. Once all the numbers show, the safe is cracked. He succeeds in opening the safe, but still trips the alarm.
Bond falls through this trick floor into the office of
Tiger Tanaka, the head of the Japanese Secret Service.
A typewriter/guard keeps watch on Bond while he's in Mr. Osato's office. The camera in the ceiling is accompanied by a gun. The monitor that the guard watches has an eyesight.
Bond places this device in his shoulder holster. When an enemy searches him for his gun and sticks his hand in the holster, it roughly clamps down on his fingers, injuring him.
Tiffany Case uses this machine to read Bond's fingerprint, which is fake, to make sure he is Peter Franks like he says. First she powders Bond's glass to see the print. Then she takes a picture of it with a camera on her table. She then takes the photo of the print and puts it into the reader in her armoire to compare it to Franks' print.
Bond uses this to trick
Tiffany Case into thinking he's actually Peter Franks.
Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd use this secret door to get from the basement of
Blofeld's hideaway to the desert.
Q wires a hotel phone to various machinery to alter Bond's voice when he talks to
Blofeld.
This device is able to manipulate the rollers in a slot machine so that they match every time.
Q uses it in Las Vegas.
Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd use this bomb disguised as a cake in an attempt to kill Bond and
Tiffany Case.
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