Resident Evil. The main characters use a glucose meter to crack access codes to the secret lab.

Resident Evil. The tablet that Ryan Gosling uses at the beginning of the movie is actually a negative holder for a 1920s camera.

Lost. The high-tech GPS-transponder that Daniel Faraday suspiciously carries is a Travelon 4-In-1 Emergency Car Tool.

Back to the Future Part II. At the very beginning of the second part of the famous trilogy, Doc Brown arrives from the future on an improved time machine that can now run on recycled waste fuel. But for some reason, he puts the waste in a “Krups” coffee grinder.

Doctor Who. In the first episodes of the cult fantasy series Doctor Who, that was released in the 1960s, filmmakers used lava lamps that had just appeared on the market in the design of TARDIS (the device for time travel).

Doctor Who. Look closer at the cyber people’s hands. Those are cricket gloves dyed silver.

Star Trek. A Dyson Airblade in a compartment of the “Enterprise” is a scanner for fingerprints

Star Trek. Barcode scanners are there for beauty and to give it a futuristic look.

Star Trek. In order to understand what the spaceman is sick with, the on-board doctor uses a vegetable peeler.

Star Trek. The creators didn’t bother with the special effects in the first episodes of Star Trek, which is why they used dogs in lion’s manes and with horns on their heads to portray alien animals.

The Mandalorian. The Child, or Baby Yoda, in The Mandalorian is found in a food container painted in a different color with some lights glued to the front.

Meet the Fockers. Robert De Niro’s character, Jack Byrnes — a retired CIA operative, who wants to spy on his future relative, puts the lid from a uni-ball pen into the mouth of the fake gator.

Equilibrium. If you slightly modify the Fresia SP 200 airfield tractor, remove it from the airport, and add some dull gray decorations, it will easily play the role of a police car in a bleak totalitarian future.

Total Recall. How does the hand computer of soldiers from Total Recall look? Wait, that’s an engineering calculator — a Casio FX-250D, to be exact.

Ghostbusters. The psychokinetic energy meter looks impressive, especially when you know that it’s made of a shoe polisher.

The Fifth Element. Korben Dallas, played by Bruce Willis, holds an intercom from the future. These devices can be seen today too. Perhaps you even have one in your car because it was a Sony Remote Commander that decided to play this role.

The Fifth Element. Also, the parasites that appeared in the landing gear of the spaceliner are actually Bumble Rubber Balls.

The Expanse. The ventilation on the wall in the shaft is made of a laptop cooling pad.

The Expanse. This pressure chamber is just an ordinary car top carrier.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence. In the movie, this device is used for reading to a kid with artificial intelligence. However, in reality, it’s a computer microphone from Radio Shack.

Virtuosity. Here is another extremely important controller. It’s pretty weird to see the speed gear from LEGO railways on it.

Doomsday Book. The “Advair Diskus” dry powder inhaler plays the role of a futuristic telecommunication device.

Amphibian Man. Ichthyander’s underwater suit was made from dyed scraps of old white film and it turned out to be a fantastic idea.

Alien Resurrection. The control device in Alien Resurrection is a handheld game called “Lights Out.”

Alias. The high-tech device for opening any doors in the Alias series is in fact a crème brûlée torch.

Mutant X. A Reddit user was pretty surprised when she saw that one of the series characters, Jesse, uses this device. In this “high-tech looking” device with buttons, she recognized an eyeshadow compact she has had since high school.

The Spy Next Door. Jackie Chan uses a Dymo LetraTag handheld label maker that can be bought for $25 to program a satellite.

XXX: Return of Xander Cage. The rocket launcher at the end of the movie is actually a TV camcorder for shoulder-mounted use, that has been decorated with fake pipes.

Westworld. Bernard Lowe gives his girlfriend a GPS tracker hoping that the park’s security will spot her. But in real life, it’s a road flare.