Teleporter The Fly (1986)
Proton Packs Ghostbusters (1984)
The Movie Invention: Made specifically for the purpose of ghost-catching, the proton packs send out a jet of electricity that snags annoying phantoms. Warning: if you’ve got more than one, don’t ever let the streams cross.
What We’d Do With It: Become a Ghostbuster! Duh.
Avatars Avatar (2009)
The Movie Invention: A fully-grown alien body that’s mixed with your human DNA. With a little help from a technological whosit, you can project your mind into the alien body.
What We’d Do With It: Live out a Sim-like second life on another planet. Well, it beats this one.
The FLDSMDFR Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (2009)
The Movie Invention: The Floyd Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicato, or simply FLDSMDFR, which uses microwave radiation to transform water into food. Amazing.
What We’d Do With It: Feed the world. Aren’t we nice?
T-800 The Terminator (1984)
The Movie Invention: A futuristic cyborg that can be programmed to target and kill just about anybody. Has a jaw like granite and an iron grip.
What We’d Do With It: Use him as the ultimate one-liner machine – this guy’s got them coming out his ears.
Lotus Esprit The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
The Movie Invention: James Bond’s niftiest pair of wheels by a long shot, the Lotus Esprit turns into a submarine when it hits water.
What We’d Do With It: Who needs the ferry? We’d much rather travel this way. As Sebastian sings in The Little Mermaid , it’s better where it’s wetter.
The Neuralizer Men In Black (1997)
The Movie Invention: Used by the Men In Black to wipe short term memories of encounters with aliens. Spookily plausible.
What We’d Do With It: Use it to win arguments down the pub by erasing our mates’ memories of what we were actually talking about.
Rocket Pack The Rocketeer (1991)
The Movie Invention: Inspired by the comics, of course, but brought to life in the movie version. It’s essentially a jetpack with added power.
What We’d Do With It: Beat the rush hour commute by using the overground – literally.
Lightsabre Star Wars (1977)
The Movie Invention: A futuristic sword, to be honest, used by Jedi Knights and Sith Lords. Makes a lovely electrical humming sound.
What We’d Do With It: Fight our mortal enemies. And slice the pork on Sundays.
DeLorean Back To The Future (1985)
The Movie Invention: Doc Brown’s hellacool time machine on wheels, which comes with its own flux capacitor and breaks the time barrier whenever it gets up to 88mph.
What We’d Do With It: Nip back in time whenever we’ve said something that’s upset the missus. We’re gonna need a lot of Plutonium…
