Exploding pen not required: MI6 looks for new 'Q' spy tech master
If so, perhaps you should apply to be the next "Q" at Britain's MI6 foreign spy service. The head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service said on Thursday that the spy agency was hunting for a new tech chief, "Director General Q", known to all James Bond film fans simply as "Q". In the Bond films, "Q" has furnished agent 007 with an array of gadgets from an Aston Martin sports car with passenger ejector seat to a ballpoint pen that turns into a grenade.