Cracked Archive - Tech
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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1744 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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5 Reasons Twitter Isn't Actually Overthrowing Governments
The media loves to breathlessly cover 'The Twitter Revolution.' Unfortuantely, the only place it actually exists is in newspapers and blogs.
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- By Mark Hill
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The 6 Most Badass Weapons Ever Improvised in Battle
War is a terrible thing: Sometimes you have to take the life of your fellow man in the most brutal and extravagant ways...and you just don't have a good enough weapon to do it as hard as you want. That's when you start strapping every weapon you have to every other weapon you have, and hope that physics is in a good enough mood today to let you fir
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- By Tony Pilgram
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The Rise And Fall Of An Internet Meme [CHART]
The cake is a spy.
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- By Dr. Gentleman
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7 Bizarre Advances in Animal Cyborg Technology
If there are two things the Internet loves, it's cute, fuzzy animals and deadly cyborgs. As awesome as those two things are on their own, though, combining them gives us something that's often more disturbing and insane than either of those could bring us on their own.
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- By M. Asher Cantrell
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