1999: Gadget saves skiers' lives
The gratuitous ski chase in 1999's "The World is Not Enough" includes a ski jacket that inflates into a life-saving protective sphere. Though no similar jacket yet exists in the real world, a device called the AvaLung II, shown here, from equipment manufacturer Black Diamond, buys skiers trapped in an avalanche some potentially life-saving breathing room. The lung pulls in air from the surrounding snowpack and directs it to the user's mouth via tubing. Exhaled air is shuttled to another part of the snowpack to minimize lethal carbon-dioxide contamination.
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