video camera uplink
This small video camera records and transmits live video feed that is sent back to MI6 headquarters. Bond uses this at the start of the film to record what is going on at the arms bazaar. M instructs 007 where to focus on, identifying various terrorists and weapons of mass destruction.
cigarette lighter grenade
This standard cigarette lighter also doubled as a grenade. Bond uses this at the beginning of Tomorrow Never Dies when he’s at the arms bazaar. He helps a terrorist light his cigarette then knocks him out. Bond then arms the grenade and throws it to start the chaos.
Ericsson mobile phone
Q provides Bond with this very handy mobile phone. Firstly, the phone featured a scanner that could be used to read fingerprints. Bond uses this handy feature when he breaks into Henry Gupta’s safe in Hamburg. Secondly, perhaps the most interesting feature is the ability to control Bond’s BMW 750iL from the phone! Bond uses this feature to great effect during the car chase in a multi-storey car park.
The third feature of the Ericsson phone was the ability to pick locks. Bond uses this feature when he breaks into a secret top floor of Carvers HQ in Hamburg. The final feature of the phone was its ability to produce an electric shock of 2,000 volts. Bond uses this to short circuit the lock into Gupter’s office and to disable Dr. Kaufman later in Bond’s hotel suite.
GPS encoder
This top-secret GPS encoder sends navigational directions to GPS satellites orbiting the Earth and in turn relays navigational instructions to ships. When Carver acquires one of these devices he uses it to send the HMS Devonshire into Chinese territorial waters in a bid to start a war.
wrist piton
Wai Lin in Carvers HQ in Hamburg uses this simple device. After meeting Bond in the secret top-floor office, and setting off the alarm, she escapes by using this gadget. Wai Lin simply fires the piton that attaches itself to the wall allowing her to walk vertically down walls. Bond however has to escape the hard way.
chakra torture tools
These small metal tools were instruments of the ancient art of Chakra torture. The idea was to use these tools to probe organs of the body like the heart or the genitals to cause as much pain as possible whilst keeping the subject alive. Dr. Kaufman’s record was 52 hours. Carver introduces these tools to Bond and Wai Lin at his new headquarters in Saigon. Ironically, it is Bond who uses the tools on Stamper when he manages to throw one into Stamper’s leg.
gadget’s in Wai Lin’s office
After her shower with Bond, Wai Lin runs off to a small building. Initially the inside this building looks like a room full of bits and pieces of useless items. With the flick of a switch, walls rotate and desks flip, to reveal her ‘office’. After looking around at various computers, gadgets and other high-tech equipment Bond comments that it looks like home.
Whilst talking to Wai Lin trying to find the location of Elliot Carver’s Stealth Ship, Bond picks up a number of her gadgets. Bond touches a Chinese dragon that surprisingly breathes fire and flicks a Chinese fan that shoots out a series of sharp webs of rope. When Bond tells Wai Lin that one of Carvers men is running towards her, she presses a button sending an ejector seat flying towards him. Bond also picks up a new Walther P99 and a new Omega Seamaster watch.
Walther P99
When in Wai Lin’s office earlier, Bond picks up the new Walther P99. The new 9mm P99 uses a bigger magazine capacity of 16 rounds compared to the Walther PPK that only used 6 rounds.
Omega Seamaster
Bond also updates his watch from Wai Lin's stock of watches. He picks up the new Omega Seamaster that has a special button that could act as a detonator. Bond uses this watch whilst in Carver's stealth boat. He activates the detonator to release the pin from a grenade hidden amongst some barrels, that causes the stealth ship to be visible to radar when explosion creates a small hole in the ships shell. ::
related links
Tomorrow Never Dies reference guide
