10 Facts About The Iconic James Bond Film Gadgets
5. Ring Cameras - A View To A Kill
The ring first features in the 1985 film A View To A Kill as Bond uses it to photograph guests at Zorin's Estate during the horse auction. The camera portion of the ring is disguised by a fake Onyx stone, making it the perfect fashionable gadget for any top-secret agent.
Micro-cameras such as this one are quite common in modern-day times and are employed by a range of people in various professions and circumstances. Whether it be nanny cams, banks, social media influencers or hotels, hidden cameras are popular for keeping valuable safe and making everyone is behaving as they should. Not quite the same as tracking your enemies, but this is one piece of Bond gadgetry you can get your hands on.
The ring Bond used in the film could only capture five low-resolution images, so Bond had to make sure he had perfect aim. The images were then stored on a tiny 1MB RAM chip designed to be downloaded at a later stage onto a computer for analysing. The modern-day versions can capture a few more images but are just as stealthy and stylish as the original Bond gadget.