Technology You can still get a secondhand Minox subminiature camera. Finding someone to process the film might be more difficult. | Not all of James Bond's gadgets were fictional. In the 1969 movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Bond uses a strange-looking metal square to photograph supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld's secret plans. The same metal square appears in the 2013 season of the Cold War–themed show The Americans, when an FBI asset is sent to copy documents in the Soviet Embassy.