EW.com’s resident Flash guru, Mark S. Luckie, just presented a collection of 12 tech toys that we’d love to steal from the movies and TV. Which one makes your wish list? (Feel free to go off-script and choose something we didn’t.)
Let’s see. I’m a practical girl. My life isn’t sticky enough to warrant Men in Black’s Neuralizer… Anyone who saw Annie Barrett and me hitting each other in the face yesterday with the "New Arrival" balloon Oxygen sent over to promote Tori & Dean knows I shouldn’t be trusted with a working lightsaber… Click’s universal remote sounds rather appealing, but I’m guessing there’s some moral there about not f’ing with time… I don’t really want a plug in my head, so I’ll just have to hope that Trinity is around if a helicopter needs to be flown… Assuming Star Trek’s beam machine isn’t considered a "toy," I’ll have to go with The Fifth Element’s makeup applicator (pictured). Not because I’m vain, but because I’m clueless when it comes to that stuff. You?
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Agreed. I suck at makeup and always remark that I would love one of these when I watch The Fifth Element.
I also agree with the Fifth Element applicator, especially for nails. I remember a similar version in ‘Total Recall’. That would be great for those ‘What the h3ll’ after work drinks.
Can I just say that that photo is freaking me out? The angle makes it look like her finger is her lips and it’s just really disturbing somehow.
Maybe it wouldn’t be classified as a toy, but I want the Star Trek replicator. It would save so much time on cooking and cleaning up, not to mention shopping; I could just ask for clothes that fit and are comfortable, instead of trying on a million outfits. The transporter would be cool, too.
The makeup applicator because I suck at putting on makeup.
I want a sonic screwdriver like the Doctor uses on Doctor Who. That thing does everything. Wait, no, scratch that, I want a Tardis. No more worrying about gas prices!
Colour me a nerd, but I would love to zip around in space & time in the TARDIS (from Doctor Who)
I’d like to have “Ziggy” from Quantum Leap. Then again, it is just an iPhone…
Kudos to the list-makers for including 2 Back to the Future items. I’ve wanted a hoverboard ever since the first time I saw part II…many moons ago…
Hm. I do quite fancy the Tardis. How about a Tardis that comes with the makeup applicator if I CALL NOW!!!
Easy…KITT. (Although he’d probably object to being called a gadget.)
If not KITT, then I’ll take Willy Wonka’s glass elevator from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” though I’d probably put stickers on the wall so I don’t slam into it repeatedly.
Way easy. Another TARDIS vote, here.
Love the make-up thing in the movie and *super* kudos to the prop person who made it a Chanel compact
Lightsaber definitely!
Also, hydrospanners, although I have a suspicion that it’s just a fancy name for wrench.
I want my very own “Gigolo Jane” female robot prostitute from A.I.!
I want a Phaser with a stun setting. would love to go to the movies with that in my pocket, the first cell phone that rings…phaser that moron.
Recently, I wanted the flip-phone that Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark character uses in Iron Man.
mark in nyc, I want that, too! It ain’t that much better on Long Island, either! The advent of the cell phone is the worst thing to ever happen to the moviegoing experience!
Another vote for the TARDIS and the sonic screwdriver (don’t even try to give me the sonic lipstick) and I will need the Doctor to come along to teach me how to use it all.
OH, and not really sci-fi but I would love a Past Lives Pavilion like in “Defending Your Life.”
I am still waiting for my hovercraft “car” from the Jetsons, all those years ago.
Ok, the hovercraft from Back to the Future II was cool, but even COOLER was that oven-y microwave thingy that Marty’s mom popped an itty-bitty Pizza Hut pizza in and it came out piping hot about a half-second later?? Where’s THAT machine? I want one!
Oh, definitely the lasso of truth from Wonderwoman (it’s technology — just from another planet). I’d also like the thing that instantaneously did Jane Jetson’s hair every morning. And also the Star Trek replicator.
Screw the makeup applicator in Fifth Element, there was a microwave thingy in that movie where she put a little capsule, pushed a button, and a big bowl of steaming hot baked chicken came out in like a second! Way more important that makeup.
Wonder Woman is not from another planet. She is the princess of Themisciria, known by Man’s world as Paridise Island. (And I will not apologize for knowing that).
I want one of those Star Trek PADDs or whatever. Little handheld devices with touchscreens that allow you to interface with networks of information, look at video … it would be nice if they also had communications capabilities and some sort of rudimentary sensory capability, so you can talk to people visually or audibly, let the home computer know where to find you, maybe take visual images, still or moving — you know, a communicator, tricorder, and datapad all in one!
who doesn’t want a big blue police call box to travel throughout space and time in. I’d love a TARDIS, especially if the doctor comes with.
I like the computer from Minority Report and would appreciate it if it were available cheaply in, let’s say…10 years. But I was a little shocked the writer didn’t choose anything from SciFi channel’s “Eureka,” which is chocked full of weird gadgets.
Oooh…it’s a tough choice between the Tardis and the makeup applicator. The makeup gadget would make getting ready in the morning sooo much faster (and I’m sure I’d look better too!) but a Tardis would let me travel through space! Can’t I have both? Please?
Rosie the robot from the Jetsons, so she can do everything for me!
Drat, Sonic Screwdriver and TARDIS have already been taken. Okay, well then I’ll just have to be vain. If I had the 5th Element make-up applicator along with Cher’s outfit-assembling computer program from Clueless, I’d probably leave the house looking a bit more stylish and put together than I normally do.
Back in the late 80’s, I really wanted a hoverboard like Michael J. Fox rode in Back to the Future Part 2.