On average, we spend over two hours per day in the kitchen preparing meals and cleaning up, so it’s no surprise that many are always on the lookout for a gadget to make the job quicker and easier. Clever inventors have developed numerous items that have changed the way we cook. Electric mixers have replaced hand beaters, food processors help us to chop, dice, and slice to perfection, and the microwave oven has revolutionized the way we cook.

Then we have those unusual and sometimes weird inventions. We see them every day on online shopping sites, kitchen shows, and in our chain stores and supermarkets: must-have gadgets that are going to save us time in the kitchen. Some of them truly are ingenious and make our daily cooking easier. Others seemed like a great idea when we originally bought them but lie forgotten at the back of the kitchen drawer. And then there are the gadgets that we can’t believe were ever actually invented.

What’s lurking at the back of your kitchen cupboard?

10 Fat Magnet

Health authorities have been educating us for many years on the need to remove fat from our diets. Many of us have moved toward lower-fat cooking methods and ingredients—like grilling our fish instead of deep-frying it, choosing leaner cuts of meat, and including more fresh fruits and vegetables in our diets.

However, the Fat Magnet has become an attractive alternative for health-conscious cooks. According to the marketing claims, you can still cook your fatty stews, but this handy gadget will successfully remove the harmful fat from your meals.

Simply freeze the handy gadget for a couple of hours. Then skim the metal plate over your soups and stews. It will basically pick the fat up, solidifying it to be easily scraped away, giving you a healthy, lower-fat meal.^[1]

9 Banana Slicer

Throughout history, people seem to have had little trouble picking bananas from the trees, peeling then, and chomping through them with their teeth. This popular fruit has been cultivated and eaten since ancient times, and in more cultured societies, we began slicing bananas to eat them more delicately or to sprinkle them across our morning cereal.

Knives have served well to slice our bananas for centuries, so it’s surprising that anyone even thought to invent a banana slicer. Therefore, it’s little wonder that it has become one of the most mocked kitchen gadgets available today.^[2]

The banana-shaped crescent of plastic has a number of blades which instantly slice through an entire banana at once. It’s perhaps useful for those with arthritis or other disabilities which make holding a knife difficult. For the rest of us, it would probably take longer to fossick in the kitchen drawer to find the gadget than it would to simply grab a knife and cut the banana.

8 Grape Peeler

Grapes have been one of the world’s most popular fruits since Neolithic times. Simply grab a handful off the nearest vine and nibble on them. Of course, it wasn’t long before we discovered how to make this handy fruit into wine.

Egyptologists have found depictions of servants peeling grapes for their wealthy masters. Older grape varieties had thicker skins, which may have been more palatable when peeled and seeded. However, cultivation over the centuries has led to grapes which are so thin-skinned and easy to eat that it’s surprising to find that there are actually people who peel grapes today.

Nevertheless, meet the grape peeler, a handy kitchen utensil with a thin wire loop that enables you to individually peel your grapes.^[3] It’s no doubt a godsend for serious cooks who don’t want grape skins in their recipes. The rest of us could eat a whole bunch of grapes in the time it takes to peel a few.

7 Chork

Do you like the idea of eating your Asian food with chopsticks, but you haven’t quite mastered the skill of successfully getting the food to your mouth? The Chork could be just what you need. This handy invention has a fork on one end and a set of chopsticks on the other.^[4]

The nifty plastic utensil is becoming popular in a number of fast food outlets, providing diners with options, depending upon one’s skill with eating utensils. Non-chopstick users can simply use the fork end to eat their fried rice in a traditional Western manner. Those who want to experience a little authentic Asian culture can use the chopstick side, reverting to the fork to save chasing those pesky portions of food around the bowl.

Experts can snap the two sections apart, transforming the Chork into a set of disposable plastic chopsticks. The utensil might be great fun to use at home, to teach the kids how to use chopsticks with their Chinese takeout.

6 Pizza ReHeater

When ordering pizza, we all end up with those leftover slices in the fridge the next morning. Many of us enjoy a slice of cold pizza for breakfast, while others prefer to reheat the pizza in the microwave or oven. This usually results in either a soggy mess or an overcooked, hard slice of pizza.

This is why the Pizza ReHeater was invented. The triangular tray utilizes a measured amount of water to absorb excess heat, enabling you to properly reheat your pizza in the microwave.^[5]

5 Trongs

Do you enjoy chicken wings, ribs, or other finger foods but can’t stand the sticky mess? Most of us hate the greasy juices on our hands after tucking into a plate of wings. This is precisely why Trongs were invented. The handy silicone finger covers act as a pair of tongs to pick up messy foods, leaving your hands and fingers clean.^[6]

Simply place the claw-like utensils over each finger. Then pick up and chomp away at the messiest food without the risk of your hands being covered in a greasy, oily residue.

4 Karoto

Peeling carrots and other cylindrical vegetables can be somewhat of a chore using a knife or a conventional vegetable peeler, so it’s little wonder that someone has invented an ingenious way to complete the task more quickly. Designed in Israel, the Karoto looks and works exactly like an oversize pencil sharpener. Simply place the vegetables into the hole and twist, just like sharpening a pencil.^[7]

The device is said to enable you to peel the skin from carrots in as few as 30 seconds, without removing skin from your fingers in the process. So very simple yet effective.

3 Electric Spaghetti Fork

Eating spaghetti can be a messy business, unless you’ve mastered the art of putting your fork into the pasta, taking a couple of twirls, and lifting the bundle into your mouth like a true Italian. If you are after a little more precision, you can also use a spoon to help with the procedure.

Or you can try the Hog Wild Twirling Spaghetti Fork. The battery-operated piece of cutlery automatically twirls the spaghetti onto your fork for you to lift into your mouth.^[8]

Some hilarious videos exist online of kids and adults alike attempting to eat with this invention. It certainly has the potential to make a lot more of a mess than the simple, time-honored method of spaghetti-eating. On the other hand, it may make mealtime more fun for kids, if possibly messier to clean up after for Mom.

2 Cookie Dipper

There are two types of people in the world: dunkers and non-dunkers. For many, dipping Oreos into a mug of warm milk or coffee is the ultimate comfort food. Others dislike the soggy mess that ends up floating in their cups.

You would think that dunking is such a simple process that it couldn’t be perfected. Yet you can now buy cookie dunkers, such as the Dipr,^[9] to make your morning coffee even easier.

These cookie dippers range from simple, fork-like contraptions that enable you to pick up your cookie and dunk to magnetic devices that enable you to safely submerge your cookies into your milk. How did we ever manage to dunk our cookies without these?

1 Self-Stirring Coffee Mug

Making the morning coffee is a fairly simple process. Many of us have an automatic tea or coffee maker from which we simply pour our morning brew. Others can’t face the morning without their fresh barista coffee.

For those of us who prefer instant, we spoon in the coffee or jiggle a tea bag, pour on the hot water, and then perhaps add a little sugar and milk for taste. The spoon is no doubt still in the mug to make those couple of stirs to complete the perfect cup of coffee.

However, it seems that this simple process became a little much for some, hence the invention of the self-stirring coffee mug.^[10] The mug holds two small batteries which power a small whisk to stir your beverage when you press the button on the handle.

Isn’t that what the spoon was for?

Lesley Connor is a retired Australian newspaper editor, who provides articles for online publications and her own travel blog.

Thousands of adults entering the workforce every day have never known life without the Internet. But as computing power has increased exponentially while devices grow ever smaller, it’s humbling to remember that we are only a couple generations removed from what was, comparatively at least, the informational dark ages.

Here are 10 technologies that represent early attempts to give consumers the kind of unbridled access that we now take for granted.

10Phone-Based Services

Before the advent of personal computers, the only ubiquitous devices through which a two-way flow of information could be conducted was the telephone. Therefore, much of the information available at a glance from our smartphones today was first made conveniently available through phone-based services. For example, nearly every populated area in the US at one time had a number one could call for the current time and temperature, many of which had operated since near the turn of the century, and some of which are still in use today.

Phone-based services had begun to fill other needs by the mid-20th century, such as multi-user “party lines” (subscription open circuits that can be thought of as early social networks), and even a form of on-demand music was available if your local radio station had a request line.

By the ‘90s, the most popular service of this type was Moviefone, which does largely what Fandango does today (give showtimes and book tickets). Its phone service was discontinued in 2014, but it lives on—as an app.

9Video Dating

Dating websites and apps have flourished within the last 10 years or so, but the basic concept of convenient matchmaking using dating profiles far predates the modern Internet and can be easily traced to a phenomenon seen at the time as a fad: video dating.

The first such service, Great Expectations, opened its doors on Valentine’s Day 1976. Members paid an annual subscription fee and visited Member Centers to fill out their Member Profiles and record candid video of themselves discussing what they wanted in a date. Eventually, services popped up to include practically every niche, just like dating sites and apps today, and the industry as a whole generated billions in revenue throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s. It was, however, quickly killed by the advent of online matchmaking. Match.com, the first of these sites, debuted in 1995; Great Expectations, which had grown into a nationwide franchise, was shuttered permanently just a few years later.

8Pocket Video Games

When video games took the public by storm in the early 1970s, we immediately fell in love with them; so much so, in fact, that we wanted to put them in our pockets and take them with us. That was completely prohibited by the technology of the time. But this didn’t stop some enterprising companies from coming as close as they possibly could—which is to say, not very close—to giving gamers a portable arcade experience.

Mattel’s sports-based games tried to replicate action with red LED dots and dashes, while later efforts from companies like Tiger and Nintendo instead used LCD displays to deliver a semblance of animation. Among the most popular were Nintendo’s Game and Watch series, some of which featured dual or wide screens, and offered (very loose) adaptations of popular arcade titles like Donkey Kong.

7Bulletin Board Systems

When dial-up modems first started seeing widespread commercial use in the mid-1980s, the Internet as we know it did not yet exist. Rather, there was a giant, unconnected network of what may be thought of as early websites—Bulletin Board Systems or BBSs. Users dialed in to post messages for other users (as only one user could typically connect at a time), exchange files, and even find illegal software downloads.

Since long-distance phone service was still costly at the time, boards mostly proliferated locally. By the early 1990s, when advancing technology was allowing for early chat and gaming functions on local Bulletin Boards, the Internet was just beginning to make its way into the American consciousness. While its advent all but wiped out what had started to become a thriving culture, as with almost anything tech-related, a few holdouts still exist. Over 300 BBSs still operate today, mostly in the United States.

6Cartrivision

The VCR became a staple of American homes beginning in the late 1970s and early ‘80s. Consumers benefited from a format war in which new innovations came, and prices remained low. But both formats were almost beaten squarely to the punch by the Cartrivision, the first home video recorder ever marketed in the United States. It was an incredibly ambitious device.

Marketed in 1972, Cartrivision came as one unit with a TV and was sold under several different brand names. It could record broadcast television on a timer on its plastic cartridges, up to an hour of video; it could also make monochrome home movies with a camera attachment. Cartridges of actual Hollywood films were also made available for rental through retailers. The cartridge design made it impossible to rewind without a special rewinder, ensuring each rental could only be watched once.

Unfortunately, poor video quality and an absurdly hefty price tag—about $9,000 in today’s money—made the device a spectacular flop. But one investor, in a 1973 Washington Post interview, unwittingly saw the future of home video: “This,” he said, “will put pornography back in the home where it belongs.”

5The Mikiphone

The Sony Walkman in the 1980s revolutionized the way people listen to music and paved the way for portable music players such as the iPod. But the quest for a portable listening device goes back a little bit further, with a portable gramophone player the size of a CD case appearing as early as 1924.

Called the Mikiphone, it promised “an orchestra in your pocket,” and it delivered. The compact device required a little assembly, and instead of a speaker used a “resonator” for amplification. It also required a hand crank to operate, common for record players of the time. Nevertheless, producing from one’s pocket a device capable of playing a full-size record in 1924 seems likely to have been a formidable display of tech wizardry.

4The Zoopraxiscope

Eadweard Muybridge, a famous British landscape photographer living in America, was commissioned in 1877 to solve an old riddle through photography. The question was whether all four of a horse’s hooves leave the ground while it gallops, and to find the answer, Muybridge set up a series of cameras with trip wires to capture each phase of the horse’s movement.

The resulting slides were converted to a proprietary disc format and projected using the Zoopraxiscope, a circular projector of Muybridge’s own invention that produced the world’s first moving pictures. More specifically, Muybridge went on to produce nearly 100 loops of both human and animal subjects in motion that resemble nothing so much as GIFs. 71 of these discs still survive at the Kingston Museum—along with the Zoopraxiscope, the only one ever built. And yes: All four hooves leave the ground, and Muybridge’s first proto-GIF proved it.

3The Iter Auto

It seems difficult to believe that early personal navigation systems could predate GPS or even satellites, but the first attempt at a commercial navigation device was made when cars were barely past the age of the hand crank in 1932. Produced by an Italian company, the Iter Auto was a console connected to the car’s speedometer and used interchangeable, scrolling maps to guide users to their destinations.

It was the first device to show a user’s position in real time, and it worked—so long as one didn’t make a wrong turn. Of course, the user also had to start from a predetermined point, and many trips were long enough to require multiple scrolls to complete the trip, so the user would have to pull over and change out the scroll for the next one in the sequence every so often. While the device didn’t exactly catch on commercially, it was an ambitious first crack at a technology that wouldn’t begin to reach fruition for over 60 years.

2The Hogg Selfie Stick

While not exactly a technical marvel, selfie sticks have begun selling like hotcakes in recent years. Time Magazine even cited them as one of the greatest inventions of 2014—which seemed a bit strange to Alan Cleaver, as a grainy black and white photo in a family album, taken with a selfie stick, had been a family favorite for generations.

Cleaver’s grandfather, Arnold Hogg, took the above photo in 1926 using a device of his own invention. As you can see, it looks pretty much exactly like a modern selfie stick. Arnold’s sense of humor is evident in his expression in the photo, and he remained fond of breaking out his device until his death in 1972. While Mr. Cleaver is not a fan of modern selfie sticks—“We’ve become so insular we haven’t even got a friend to take a photo for us now,” he says—he admits that it would have been nice if his grandfather had filed for a patent.

1The Telharmonium

Finally, while music streaming services are all the rage today, it may be surprising to know that the first service to stream music to phones predates smartphones, the Internet, and even modern telephone service. All the way back in the early 1900s, those who had telephones could call the operator and ask to connect to the Telharmonium. The gigantic contraption looked every bit as Seussian as its name and could pump electronic music to the user’s telephone receiver.

The Telharmonium, 200 tons of machinery taking up an entire floor of a building, was an enormous maze of relays, alternators, transformers and switchboards connected to two special keyboards. Musicians would play 24 hours a day, which would be converted into electrical signals by the Telharmonium, generating eerie, tinkling electronic tunes. A special paper funnel attached to the telephone receiver amplified the sound, as amplifiers had not been invented yet.

A 1906 New York Times article spoke of the invention in glowing terms, inspiring Mark Twain to pay a visit. Twain was positively smitten with the device, telling the Times, “Every time I see or hear a new wonder like this I have to postpone my death right off . . . I couldn’t possibly leave the world until I have heard this again and again.”

Although a decent chef can work wonders with any set of culinary tools, having the right ones can definitely help. A set of cookware, cutting boards, and knives are just some of the practical items you’ll see in every kitchen.

But what about the goofy kitchen gadget you impulse bought and only used once? Maybe the gadget only has one specific purpose, or you only use it during the holidays. Either way, at the end of the day, you can easily call these kitchen gadgets unnecessary.

Before you venture out to purchase yet another pair of onion goggles, let’s explore the top ten kitchen gadgets that never should have been invented. Hopefully, this list can save you some money and drawer space in your kitchen. 

10 Pickle Fork

Everybody wants to avoid smelly pickle juice, right? Or maybe you hate sharing a communal pickle jar at company picnics, and you don’t want to stick your fingers into a jar that other people will be grabbing from. While most people would grab a regular fork to jab into a pickle, many people choose to spend $5-$10 on a pickle fork. 

While some may find a pickle fork amusing, others will find the tool practical. In our case, avoid spending your money and use a regular ole’ fork to spear your pickle out of the jar. Avoid your “needed” pickle fork being stuffed into a junk drawer, collecting dust. 

9 PB&J Spreader

PB&J’s, also known as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, is a lunchtime favorite for many. But apparently, enough people seemed to have complained about the assembly process to have an actual PB&J Spreader invented. Many PB&J Spreaders promote sturdy handles, long blades, and features that scrape every last bit of peanut butter out of a jar. 

Instead of purchasing a PB&J Spreader, grab your trusty kitchen knife to do the same work and save your money! Better yet, to scrape all the peanut butter out of the jar, reach for a kitchen spatula. While you may need to use two kitchen tools to complete the task, you will save money and drawer space by avoiding a PB&J spreader’s purchase.

8 Banana Slicer

The banana slicer is another kitchen gadget that just doesn’t make sense. Who wants to spend money on this tool when they have a butter knife available right in their kitchen? It makes economic sense to save money and use what you have. The only benefit we can assign to the banana slicer is the equal uniform cuts it makes. A special dessert or dish may call for these equal slices. 

Despite the one benefit of a banana slicer, most banana slicers only allow you to slice small portions of the banana at one time. In the time it will take you to peel the banana and begin cutting bit by bit, you could have cut the whole banana using a knife and cutting board. 

7 Egg Slicer

Let’s add another cutting tool to our list. The egg slicer seems convenient when you’ll need sliced eggs to toss in a cobb salad, but once again, use a knife you already have. When eating eggs, a person will bite into a hard-boiled egg or cut it in half—there is very little need, if any, for a kitchen gadget specifically geared towards cutting a soft egg.

The egg slicer is another gadget that can create equal shaped cuts with food. While many at-home chefs boast that the egg slicer can cut more than just soft eggs, we don’t see the need when you have knives readily available. And with practice, you can cut food equal in size and shape.

6 Hands-Free Bag Holder

This kitchen gadget will cost you more than $20. The bag holder keeps your plastic bags open and in place while you fill them. Many people who meal prep or make freezer meals find the hands-free bag holder ideal when working in large batches. But we think you should save your money and buy more plastic bags for your snacks.

Hands-free bag holders had to make the list for kitchen gadgets that never should have been invented. Many sandwich bags are made with flat bottoms, so you can set the bag on the counter while filling it with food. If you are worried about making a mess, open the bag and roll the top over itself, creating a cleaner fill. Holding the bag with one hand while filling it is easy, and guess what—free!

5 Bear Paw Meat Shredder

Don’t spend a lot of money on a set of Bear Paw Meat Shredders when you have perfectly good forks sitting in your utensil drawer. You’ll only need two forks to dig into your cooked meat. Using the forks, pull the meat apart in different directions. If your meat is soft enough, the forks will easily shred the meat. 

Many BBQ cookers will use meat shredders due to their durability and ease of use when shredding large quantities of meat. Despite the love from BBQ cookers, meat shredders will only take up precious kitchen drawer space. While they look appealing and easy to use, their function can be completed with items you already have. 

4 Butter Dispenser

Butter dispensers are not a practical gadget, no matter how you slice it.

Working as a large syringe, the butter is pushed out onto your desired food. You will have to take the butter out of its original packaging to use the product. Spreading butter on your food is easy with a knife or even a spatula if you are baking and using large quantities of butter. 

Many chefs find that washing the butter dispenser is the biggest downfall of this time-wasting kitchen gadget. The syringe gets discarded or shoved to the back of your kitchen cabinet. Save yourself the cleaning hassle and just spread your butter with a knife from its container or use your trusty butter dish. 

3 Egg and Bread Toaster

If you need to save on kitchen counter space, this device is not going to help you. This Egg and Bread Toaster is larger than your average toaster. You’ll also need to part with a cool $50 to purchase one. The toaster has large wide slots that will toast your pieces of bread. At the same time, the end of the gadget has a spot to cook an egg simultaneously. 

While the gadget does cook two things at once, users report inconsistencies in cooking temperatures. Also, if you have a big family, you will be spending all morning standing at the egg and bread toaster since it can only cook one egg at a time, which isn’t ideal on busy mornings. 

Use a conventional toaster and stovetop instead to cook your morning breakfast. You’ll have more control over your food’s temperature, and you will save counter space by avoiding another bulky appliance. 

2 Tuna Squish

The Tuna Squish gadget helps to remove water from canned tuna. And for $20 per gadget, it feels like a rip-off. If you’ve experience opening up a can of tuna, you know how to remove the excess water. You only need to press down on the tuna using the lid, then remove the cover and throw it away. It’s not rocket science. 

While many users swear by the device to avoid smelling like tuna from touching the water, we can’t get behind a product with no other use, except for maybe opening a can of cat food. 

1 Jenaluca Herb Scissors

The Jenaluca Herb Scissors function like a regular pair of scissors but with specialized functions. These scissors easily cut herbs using five blades or more, depending on the brand of herb scissors you purchase. The multi-blades allow for precise small cuts of herbs at a fast pace.

Regular kitchen scissors can also cut herbs; they only have the two blades that accomplish the same task. You’ll find the herb scissors to be a waste of kitchen space and money. $15 is a lot with only the guarantee to save tiny bits of time slicing herbs. The scissors are bulkier than regular kitchen scissors due to the multiple blades. If you purchase these, they’ll take up more space in your kitchen than a standard pair of kitchen scissors and only serve one purpose. 

The James Bond movie franchise has given us some great gadgets—some of which we wish we had and others that aren’t so practical but still pretty cool. But real life has given us some neat gadgets too! Sure, we may not have access to a dagger shoe or a mini-rocket cigarette.

Still, innovations in technology and practical applications of survivalist techniques have shown us that Hollywood could take a few pointers from what is already available in real life. Here are ten gadgets that James Bond would want in real life (in no particular order).

Related: 10 Most Controversial James Bond Facts

10 Makr Shakr

The quintessential Bond line “Shaken, not stirred” is the inspiration for our first selection. The Makr Shakr is a robotic arm bartender that eliminates the need for a human bartender. Or, to be less salty about it, all you have to do is sit back and let the robot do its job.

This may not be spy gear, but it definitely plays an important role in Bond’s personal life and vices. However, the outrageous look of an assembly line machine arm bartender makes it seem that it’d be better suited for Archer, who is the perfect parody of Roger Moore’s suave playboy vibes and Pierce Brosnan’s sarcasm and wit.

9 Belty

Daniel Craig, in my opinion, is the darkest version of Bond. He is the silent type who has no problem reminding us that he’s a covert agent first and has no problem killing who he has to kill. He’s also terribly good-looking. That’s why Belty is on this list.

Belty is a self-adjusting belt. It is stylish enough to pass as a regular belt, but why limit the technology behind it to constrict waists and hold up pants? Hear me out. What if Bond could adjust the Belty to self-adjust around a person’s neck? To me, it’s the perfect 2-in-1 tool, like the exploding pen. Forget piano wire—that’s such a mafia tactic anyway. Bond uses a belt to choke his targets.

8 LifeStraw

If you camp, you know how important it is to NOT drink water from lakes, ponds, or streams without boiling it first. Drinking the water straight could result in some pretty nasty medical complications and a ruined camping trip. Fortunately, several solutions don’t require you to boil water, one of which is the LifeStraw.

The LifeStraw is a portable straw that filters water of viruses and bacteria. The company behind it, Vestergaard, has some great sustainability and water equality initiatives, too, so good on them.

In his line of work, Bond visits some far-out places, as seen in No Time to Die, for example. The Lifestraw, then, seems a logical addition to his survivalist tools should he have to travel through harsh and limiting conditions. Stay hydrated, my friends.

7 Ray-Ban Stories

Of all the Bonds, Roger Moore probably got the coolest gadgets. He’d be the one we would most likely see shopping around for the next Swiss Army knife of ridiculous all-in-one features. With him in mind, though, it isn’t easy coming up with a real-life gadget that he would want. We could give him a smartwatch, but nothing compares to the Rolex Submariner. We could give him a self-driving car, but, meh—he had the Lotus Esprit coupe. That’s a car and a submarine with a torpedo launcher. So we decided to look for something simpler that could still appeal to Moore’s crazy gadget side. We came up with the Ray-Ban Stories.

These sunglasses made by Ray-Bans compete hard with the Bose Bluetooth sunglasses—and win. The smart glasses are supported by Meta technology and come with a whole host of features. You can take video and photos hands-free (there are two small built-in cameras in the frames). A touch response option allows you to do the same. You can also play and pause music with verbal or touch commands. The glasses also come with a charging case, open-air speakers, Facebook assistant, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, iPhone and Android compatibility, and three stylish frame designs with prescription lens options.

6 The Tile

The Tile is a portable tracking device intended to keep track of your possessions. The company behind it sells a credit card-sized version of the device, a round, waterproof sticker tracker, or a small tile. Simply keep the Tile with your belongings and sync the device with the iPhone or Android app. Obviously, it can also be left in purses or cars to keep tabs on someone’s whereabouts (but the company would never promote that).

It may not be the most subtle tracking device he’s ever used, but it could prove to be a useful tool for his civilian lifestyle, especially if he tends to misplace his keys or wallet or girlfriends.

5 Nuraphone

The Nuraphone is a set of Bluetooth headphones that send out different frequencies to your ear and measure your ears’ responses to them. It then creates an equalizer profile for you based on these responses. The result is the perfect equalizer setting for your ears only. Additionally, you can take phone calls, adjust the “transparency” of the headphones if you still need to listen to your surroundings, or plug in wires if you don’t want to go wireless.

Bond may never use these things on the job, but we think they’re impressive enough that he wouldn’t mind listening to custom EQ music on his day off.

4 Max Privacy Screen Protector

A screen protector? Boring—but logical. I’m not even a spy, and I don’t want people to see what I’m looking at—and what I’m looking at isn’t even that important. Imagine what James Bond looks at on his phone…*jokes ensue*.

The max privacy screen protector for iPhone is so private that supposedly unless you’re looking directly at your phone, the screen will appear black. It’s also made out of glass, so its protective capabilities go beyond privacy.

3 The Wasp Gas Injection Knife

You guys, I really like this one. It’s a knife. But wait, there’s more! It’s a knife that releases enough carbon dioxide to cause a small explosion when you stab something with it. So yes, you can stab something and then make the wound worse by blowing it up with the press of a button on the knife’s bolster. On top of that, the carbon dioxide that causes the explosion is really cold, so it freezes the organs and tissues around it.

The knife was originally intended for divers who encounter predators, like sharks. If you’re underwater and have to use it, the shark will float to the surface before it starts bleeding. The blood will then attract other sharks to the surface so you can keep diving. It makes sense to me!

But you don’t have to be underwater to use it. Land or sea, for close-range combat, this is a pretty neat tool to have and one I’m sure Bond would love to keep handy.

2 Wazoo Firecraft Necklace

You don’t necessarily want to deck yourself out in jewelry when you’re out in the wilderness. It’s not practical. But this necklace is designed to be functional (and hipster-looking). Wazoo put flint and steel on a pendant, and this surprisingly simple solution to fire starting is wildly successful. The sparks will fly! We’re sure that Bond has plenty of survival skills, not to need flint and steel to start a fire, but he is always prepared for a sticky situation. We figured that he’d bring it along with him to make his life easier. Who actually wants to spend time looking for flint and steel in the middle of nowhere?

1 The Drink Detective

Hey, remember when Daniel Craig was poisoned at the casino in Casino Royale“? Not to throw salt on a wound, but you’re 007. Don’t just say, “Hey, thanks for my drink. I’m going to drink it in the same room as my enemy without checking it!” That’s why, as punishment, we’re presenting here the way-too-complicated spiked drink detector!

To use the Drink Detective:

1. Remove a test swab and test card from the package.
2. Dip the swab in the drink and apply it to the test squares on the card.
3. Wait a couple of seconds, and if the squares have changed colors, your drink has been spiked.

If you want to know exactly what someone put in it, the different colors correspond with different drugs.

The Drink Detective can detect a host of drugs in your drink, including heroin, cocaine, ketamine, ecstasy, morphine, etc. If it’s an amine, the Drink Detective will find it. Now, it wouldn’t have done any good for the digitalis poison in Bond’s drink, but hey, you know, not everyone has access to digitalis—regular bad guys may opt to roofie him instead.