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November 14, 2008 3:23 PM PST

Friday Poll: Does 007 have a license to sell?

by Crave staff

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What would be the best product placement in a Bond film?

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From tricked-out Aston Martins with passenger-ejector seats to ballpoint-pen grenades and fake nipples (no, really, go watch The Man With the Golden Gun), James Bond movies are known for their gadgetry.

And since Quantum of Solace opens Friday, we got to thinking: what would be the best product placement imaginable for a Bond film? We have a few ideas, but we might not have covered everything, so if you can think of the perfect tech promotion for a Bond flick, let us know in the Talkback section below.

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by Mr. Dee November 14, 2008 4:09 PM PST
A Vista notebook with James reading the built in Sidebar RSS Feed Gadget with the latest assignment coming from M's private blog.

Anyway, I don't like Daniel Craig as 007, he doesn't share that charisma and cavalier attitude like Sean Connery and Roger Moore. Even Pierce Brosnan lived up to expectation.
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by Nick.Kentros November 14, 2008 5:41 PM PST
I would say a great gadget to have in a new bond film is....ANY GADGET!! They have yet to reintroduce anything more advanced than a badass DBS and a cell phone. Where are the things that should blow up? Like pens and cufflinks and watches. Where's Q?!

That being said, QoS was still pretty kickass
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by Sam Papelbon November 14, 2008 7:43 PM PST
Q: look at this james
(bond taps on notebook computer and brings up adult website)
Bond: not bad
Q: 007, please! (shuts notebook and picks it up) at first glance it looks like an ordinary notebook computer. but simply place in a carrying case (places notebook in mannequin's attache case) and with this remote activator switch- (Q walks behind protective barrier. upon seeing bond not following, pulls him with by his sleeve) right, with this switch. (presses switch, laptop explodes sending mannequin bits flying) Exploding battery!
Bond: Defrag grenade?
Q: oh 007...
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by alex-cnet November 17, 2008 7:55 AM PST
Wait, we need a switch for that?
by lk335 November 15, 2008 9:07 AM PST
Craig is a pretty bad-ass bond. And is way more like the Ian Flemming Bond than the comic book character bond of late.

I do admit I'd love to see some gadgetry though.... Even though the phone call tracker caught my interest... But why not have a suit jacket that deployed into a hang glider or something... that would be cool.
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by mpitogo November 15, 2008 12:12 PM PST
I saw it last night and thought the cool gadget was the UI for the table and cell phone. I'm mainly a mac user but I thought the Microsoft like table surface was neat.
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by theronjames November 18, 2008 9:58 AM PST
How about Microvision Wearable Displays
http://www.microvision.com/wearable_displays/wearable_application_gallery.html

They had something similar in one of the Mission Impossible movies but Bond would do it better.
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