30 of the Coolest Movie and Television Gadgets of All Time

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Batman’s Batarang

Full disclosure: I’m a huge Batman nerd. That said, batarangs are objectively awesome. Whether using them to pin a creep’s jacket to the wall or just showing off your accuracy on the dartboard at the local watering hole, batarangs are multi-purpose. Heck, some of them even come back to you, just like a boomerang. I mean, the “arang” is right there in the name.

Now, when I list the batarang, I’m going all-inclusive. I’m talking about the explosive batarangs, tracker batarangs, shocker batarangs, the works. In Batman Returns (and various videogames), Batman even uses a remote controlled batarang. But while all of these variations are cool, there’s something so elegant and appealing about the simplicity of the standard batarang. Cut to perfection, thrown with precision. There were a lot of bat-gadgets to choose from, but I had to go with the classic, even though it’s not really a gadget in the classic se