25 best movie gadgets

Point of View Gun (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 2005)

These days, anyone with a tablet and a Wikipedia bookmark has access to the eponymous guide. So we've plumped for the yet-to-be-invented Point of View Gun (created by Douglas Adams especially for the movie), which persuades whoever's in the crosshairs to see things from your point of view. Like most guns, we’d have thought.

Smart contact lenses (I-Spy, 2002)

You might think Google’s Project Glass is cool, but wait until you have a mic and camera embedded in your eyeball. Yes, I-Spy is one of the worst films ever made, but there’s no denying that smart contact lenses are a real-life possibility – and one we’d queue up to get our eyes on.

Time remote control (Click, 2006)

You’d bet a dollar pretty near the bottom of your pile the producers of Click wished they had a time-travelling remote control to fast-forward through the panned release of this sci-fi comedy car crash. Perhaps they’d hit the rewind button and get some decent writers on board, rather than grabbing a hackneyed plot-by-numbers for this underwritten celluloid donkey.

X-ray glasses (The World Is Not Enough, 1999)

They might look like the sort of specs worn by a Florida retiree, but when Pierce Brosnan’s Bond donned these X-ray specs he could see who was packing a gun. Naturally, being James Bond, he immediately hit on the possibility of being able to see through women’s clothes. Pay attention, 007.

Grappling Gun (Batman, 1989)

Batman doesn’t really go in for guns – unless they discharge magnetic grappling lines that’ll hold 350lbs of Bruce and his Batgear. That’s why he keeps this nifty gas-powered steampunk shooter tucked into the back of his pants.

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