Cracked Archive - Tech

If you've written anything on the Internet in the past 20 years or so, a short time later you've probably experienced a feeling of pure, unalloyed irritation, when you observed someone correcting your grammar. Well, now you can tell those people to shove off.

• By Chris Bucholz
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• April 24, 2012

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.

• By R. Jason Benson
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• April 24, 2012

As the threat of global warming and other environmental catastrophes grow more and more apparent, science is looking ever more desperately for things to turn into electricity that don't involve murdering everything horribly as a side effect.

• By Mike Haring, Dwayne Hoover
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• April 21, 2012

Until humans learn how to command machines with their minds (or vice versa), we're always going to need some sort of menu, control panel or whatever to interact with our machines and tell them to do our jobs for us. And while most are incredibly easy, some are just plain ridiculous.

• By John Hillabin
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• April 17, 2012

The video demo of the new Google glasses is making the rounds. We update a few key moments for the sake of honesty.

• By Sampsa Nuotio
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• April 13, 2012

Over the past decade Google has become an omnipresent part of our lives, to the point that a lot of people are getting very nervous about the amount of information they have about us. And now with Google evidently becoming a leader in the world of automotive automation, we must ask: is this Google car a terrifying vision of a future automotive nann

• By Chris Bucholz
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• April 10, 2012

Staring at breasts can reduce your IQ to something you can't even spell, let alone use, as proven by these seven inventions that do for cleavage what cleavage does for intelligence tests.

• By Luke McKinney
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• April 06, 2012

As you try to understand technology better, where can you turn for honest answers? Sadly, many stupid people ask the Internet, itself a piece of technology and therefore clearly biased.

• By Soren Bowie
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• April 06, 2012

Fortunately for the people who go their entire lives without ever discovering the difference between a 'practical joke' and 'randomly harming other people just because,' an entire industry has emerged to help them.

• By Michael Corvinus
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• April 01, 2012

When it comes to depicting computer hacking onscreen, it's no surprise that the implausible scenarios Hollywood's tech-challenged screenwriters manage to pull out of their asses don't even come close to resembling the real thing. Except it turns out that, every once in a while, they inadvertently get it right on the money.

• By Benjamin Buso
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• March 29, 2012

If you want to build supercomputers, set up a global communications network, trigger thermonuclear fusion, melt steel and weld flesh, lasers have you covered. They're like the Swiss Army Knife for people planning to attack the Justice League.

• By Luke McKinney
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• March 27, 2012

None of nature's obstacles can keep man from going where he wants to go. For evidence, you only need to look at where we've chosen to build our highways, oblivious to all obstacles, elements and mortal danger.

• By Xavier Jackson
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• March 24, 2012

Once we invented the gun, that was pretty much it, right? It's a tube of death, why mess with the concept? Because you're a crazy person, that's why.

• By Adam Wears, Ben Adelman
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• March 18, 2012

A lot of mail flows in and out of the video game world. Luckily, Avery Edison is there to catch it.

• By Avery Edison
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• March 09, 2012

Various rules of thumb for regular car maintenance have been passed down through the generations -- precious wisdom handed to us by our ancestors in order to stave off, for a spell, the ruinous, virgin-eating car repair monster. But many of these rules are, at best, wildly outdated and, at worst, a total waste of money.

• By Chris Radomile
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• March 01, 2012