As seen in “MythBusters: James Bond Special I.”Before James Bond sets out to fight drug lords in Live and Let Die, gadget guy Q arms him with a double-duty watch. The theory was that the time piece could emit an electromagnetic field strong enough to divert a bullet heading toward 007.Although Bond never puts the high-tech trinket to that use in the movie, the mythbusters built their own prototype to see whether Q’s spy science holds up in the real world. Wrap a copper wire around a steel core, then run an electric current through it, and you have an electromagnet. That flowing current creates the temporary electromagnetic field, which could theoretically repel an electrically conductive object, like a fast-moving steel bullet, because of opposing electron movement.Watch the video to find out if it worked.Learn more from Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters.
MYTH: Can an Electromagnetic Watch Really Deflect a Bullet?
