Tech
5 Military Weapons Clearly Designed by a 5-Year-Old
There's a pretty big difference between what works in a cartoon and what works in real life. But military generals and weapons designers both have an inner child who still likes to draw super awesome weapons on the back of a notebook.
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- By Elsa Moriarty
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5 Ways the Modern World Makes You Extremely Easy to Stalk
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- By Eric Yosomono, Lee Phan, Itzhak J. Czukor
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6 Sci-Fi Technologies You'll Soon Have on Your Phone
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- By XJ Selman
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The 8 Creepiest Cases of Identity Theft of All Time
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- By Amanda Hahn, Chris Holmes
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
The 5 Most Baffling Things About Pinterest: Explained
On Pinterest, people are free to share your pinned recipes, crafts, inspirational photos, etc. on their boards, and so on, at a rate of several billion times a second (probably). Got it? Okay, now here's where it gets weird.
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- By Kristi Harrison
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The 5 Most Terrifying Sci-Fi Upgrades to Deadly Weapons
We do not necessarily approve of the use or even the manufacture of any of the following devices; we only feel a duty to alert you to their existence. Because they're insane.
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- By Michael Record
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The 9 Most Hilariously Irresponsible Old-Timey Weapons
It turns out that fighting real-life crime back in the day was more like a James Bond movie, if Q designed the weapons while drunk.
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- By R. Jason Benson
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The 9 Most Unnecessary Gadgets Money Can Buy
It's hard to comprehend how people poker-facedly try to sell us gadgets that actually manage to complicate the task they're intended to help with. And we'll buy them.
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- By Tracy V.
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5 Ways Your Nerd Gadgets Are Killing You
While standard warnings turn out to be alarmist garbage, our geek toys are wreaking havoc in completely unexpected, and amazingly stupid, ways.
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- By Justin Crockett
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5 Scientific Ways the Internet is Dividing Us
The Internet is turning us on each other. The worse news? It's not getting better any time soon.
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- By Dennis Hong, J.F. Sargent
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11 Useful Products Too Embarrassing to Actually Use (Part 2)
There comes a point where making your life easier just isn't worth the humiliation.
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- By Tracy V.
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5 Internet Annoyances That Are Way Older Than the Internet
We have a tendency to think that all of the annoyances that came with the Internet are also brand new to humanity. Surprise! They aren't.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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The 9 Most Insane Vehicles That Are Street Legal
Even if you're not really into cars, everyone has a dream vehicle. Of course, the problem with getting too fanciful with your automotive dreams is that the really crazy stuff would never be street legal. Or would it?
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- By Matt Machmuller
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5 Recklessly Stupid Attempts at Human Flight (That Worked)
It turns out that early aviation was more a matter of slapping as many of whatever they had lying around the workshop together and getting a running start off the nearest cliff. The truly crazy part? Sometimes it actually worked.
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- By Patrick Riordan, Mike Cooney
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5 Futuristic Technologies Invented in the Wrong Century
Every once in a while the universe gets its wires so crossed that something we tend to think of as the far-fetched brainchild of some science fiction writer actually happened in the real world well before we ever saw it on a movie or TV screen.
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- By R. Jason Benson
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