These 9 Spy Gadgets from Movies Are Cooler Than Anything in Real Life (3 of 5)

The BuddyPack Jetpack Spy Kids

No matter if you were 9 or 90, when you saw this thing in action, you immediately wanted one, too. The BuddyPack jetpack from Spy Kids made Carmen and Juni Cortez ten times as cool as they deserved to be. These compact, rocket-powered backpacks let them zip around skyscrapers, escape bad guys, and fly into danger without breaking a sweat. The film is a gadget goldmine meant to sell lots of toys. You got electroshock gumballs, instant cement, and creepy robo spy bugs, but the BuddyPack is peak wish fulfillment. Alexa Vega said the jetpack scenes were super fun, even when she flew headfirst into a wall. Now that’s dedication.

Ethan Hunt’s Wall-Climbing Gloves Mission: Impossible

Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt has done some insane stunts over the yearsdangling from planes, clinging to cliffs, jumping on speeding carsbut few moments are as death-defying as the Burj Khalifa climb in Ghost Protocol. Of course, this would not be possible without the iconic electro-adhesive gloves. These bad boys work on the principle of “blue is glue, red is dead,” giving Hunt superhuman grip. What’s even crazier is that Cruise actually did that skyscraper climb himself, minus the gadgets, unfortunately. On the bright side, real scientists have been inspired to build tech like that, so maybe, hopefully, soon?