Cracked Archive - Tech
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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407 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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6 Pieces of Office Equipment (For the Incredibly Paranoid)
For those who envision office-wide knife fights or think the lunch room is the most likely Ground Zero in the upcoming robot-zombie apocalypse, rest assured certain entrepreneurs have stepped forward to meet your needs.
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- By Benjamin Buso
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The Smartphone Owner's Paradox [COMIC]
Sometimes you can love your smart phone too much.
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- By Scott Meyer
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6 Mind-Blowing Discoveries Made Using Google Earth
Since Google Earth hit the Web in 2005, besides instantly turning all office desk globes into decorative accessories, it has opened the world up to global exploration at the click of a mouse. But it's not just a neat toy; some extraordinary things have been discovered with its one-click access to satellite imagery.
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- By Scott Santens
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5 Seemingly Innocent Ways You Risk Your Identity Every Day
We tend to think of identity theft as a crime perpetrated exclusively on stupid people. Sure, you don't fall for that Nigerian prince schtick and you don't send your login information to ‘official’ emails that misspell ‘PayPal.’ Well, you'd best take a slice of humble pie, because there are lots of things that you do every day, that you're
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- By Robert Evans
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The Most Secretly Dangerous Form of Transportation [CHART]
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- By David Giroux
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5 Inventions That Prove 'The Terminator' Is Upon Us
Allow us to detail five real technologies that, according to our calculations, are 100 percent certain to drag us into a nightmare future infested with killer machines shaped like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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- By Fletcher Wortmann
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5 Advanced Technologies Still Catching Up to Invertebrates
Even the smallest, slimiest creatures employ tech that will some day revolutionize everything from solar panels to TV screens.
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- By Brian Thompson
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5 Ways Your Telecom Company is Screwing You
FYI: Many of the annoying things your cellphone provider does happen behind the scenes, and you'll never find it spelled out on your bill.
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- By M. Asher Cantrell
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6 Shocking Ways Robots Are Already Becoming Human
Did you know you can engineer a soul?Scientists have already gotten a running start at it with these six robots that are treading all over the formerly exclusive domain of mankind.
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- By Eric A., Karl Smallwood, Dennis Hong
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The 6 Most Ill-Conceived Weapons Ever Built
There are plenty of weapon designs submitted every year. Thankfully, we have folks who make sure the ridiculous ones never see production. Sometimes, though, even they screw up.
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- By Ben Adelman
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