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'Goldfinger' car could fetch $5 million at auction

At least one of us 007 fans who have dreamed of driving James Bond's cool Aston Martin could get our wish--that is, those of us with $5 million handy.

Sporting its full arsenal of Q-inspired gadgets from the bulletproof shield to the revolving license plate to the oil slick sprayer, Bond's famed Aston Martin DB5 will rev up for auction in October in London. Available through automobile auction house RM Auctions and Sotheby's, the car is expected to drive away with a price tag of $5 million.

Known by its original U.K. registration number of FMP … Read more

A keyboard for spies and messy eaters

The people at iKey (not to be confused with IKEA) clearly have some sort of James Bond complex. Last fall they debuted a keyboard made for night-vision goggles, and now they've come out with a model that supposedly can endure the harshest environments. (What's up with all these survivalist keyboards, anyway?)

The DT-5K-MEM-TP, whose name perhaps intentionally sounds like an encrypted message, is an "industrial membrane" keyboard that's made with a "hard-coated, textured polyster film" that supposedly puts silicon keypads to shame. It also bears the distinction of being NEMA 4X-certified, which the … Read more