Cracked Archive - Tech
6 Images of Abandoned Weaponry You Won't Believe Are Real
What happens when you get bored of your new toys? You just toss them out in the middle of a field somewhere. Who cares that they're worth a billion dollars and took dozens of years of intricate design and revision.
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- By Eric Yosomono
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671 5 Mind Blowing Things Crowds Do Better Than Experts
There's nothing stupider than a crowd. Take an average, intelligent person and put him in an emergency and he'll likely remain calm and await instructions. Put him in a crowd and he'll start screaming, looting and overturning cars. Right? Well ... not really. That's why we have crowdsourcing.
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- By Kenny Thompson
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5 Sci-Fi Technologies People Achieved By Hacking the Kinect
Kinect turned out to be a virtual puppy petting machine and awkward wedding-dance simulator. But some particularly handy people took a look at the Kinect and saw the true potential.
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- By Augusto Corvalan
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6 Devices Made for Aquatic Supervillainy
We've compiled this list of handy aquatic devices for the aspiring maniac to use in theme crimes, avenge the death of a beloved pet kraken or just really show a beach full of arrogant spring breakers WHAT IS UP NOW.
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- By Monte Richard
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7 Mind-Blowing Structures Built in Secret
Why would anyone build something impressive and keep it a secret? Plenty of reasons. Just know the next time you look out your window you could be staring straight at a secret.
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- By R. Jason Benson
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6 Companies That Are Clearly Catering to Supervillains
Thanks to the magic of the free market there are companies that sell sexy female bodyguards.
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- By Benjamin Buso
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How to Prevent the End of the World [COMIC]
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- By Scott Meyer
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The 7 Creepiest Old School Robots
Robots are terrifying, we all know that. And the creepily advanced ones have been around forever.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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8 Things You Won't Believe Can Be Hacked
If movies are to be believed, hackers are mostly kept busy kickflipping over the pentagon before sleeping in Mom's basement. But neither assumption is true.
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- By Colin Murdock
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The Top 8 Unintentionally Hilarious Vehicles Ridden Into War
When the brilliance of military weaponry shines through, entire wars can be swung in one nation's favor. When the insanity wins, their designs wind up in a Cracked article.
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- By Patrick Riordan
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6 Shockingly Affordable Sci-Fi Inventions
Who would ever deny you a loan to get one of these?
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- By Kenny Thompson
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5 Aerial Battles That Put 'Top Gun' To Shame
The most badass things ever done in, or to, a fighter jet.
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- By Xavier Jackson
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8 WTF Aircraft Designs That Actually Caught Air
Aircraft designers can think outside the box just like everybody else. And what's most surprising of all is that all of the insane designs herein actually flew, with varying degrees of success.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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5 Projects You Won't Believe the US Government Is Working On
The mad inventor from the James Bond movies, Q, is real. Only there are lots of him, and they have a lot more money at their disposal.
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- By M. Asher Cantrell
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6 Technologies Conspicuously Absent from Sci-Fi Movies
To make sci-fi stories work, the writers often have to add completely arbitrary and pointless limitations to whatever futuristic technology turns up. But in the name of plot and drama, they sometimes wind up giving the people of the distant future gear that doesn't even work as well as ours does now, in the boring old present.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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