Forget Back to the Future and comparing its vision of 2015 with reality, because from watches and wearables to in-car technology, the James Bond films have been correctly guessing the future for over 50 years. Ok, an ejector seat probably isn’t on the options list, even at companies like Rolls-Royce that pride themselves on meeting bespoke requests, but satnav, an in-car phone and integrated fridges perfect for chilling a bottle of Bollinger certainly are. Likewise, the debonair spy has been enjoying the benefits of a full head-up display since 1987 (the tricked-out Aston Martin V8 of The Living Daylights) and being able to control most of his BMW’s features via a smartphone since 1997’s Tomorrow Never Dies – two features the latest real-world BMW 7 series, launched this July, boasts as standard.
- Bond’s been taking the first two for granted since he got behind the wheel of his DB5 in 1964’s Goldfinger and revealed the third in the same car while racing a Ferrari around Monaco in Goldeneye in 1995. Forget the ejector seat, the DB5 also showcased the first satnav system.
- Even the amphibious car, the Lotus Esprit, that wowed cinema-going audiences in 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me now has its real-world contemporaries in the form of the Gibbs Aquada and the Rinspeed Splash Hydrofoil Car.
- By the time Pierce Brosnan took over the mantle in 1995, features had moved onto laser cutters, grappling hooks and an integrated remote-controlled grenade.
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