Cracked Archive - Tech
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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645 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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- 400
The 6 Creepiest Ways They're Harvesting Electricity
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.
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- By Mike Haring, Dwayne Hoover
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6 Disasters Caused by Poorly Designed User Interfaces
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.
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- By John Hillabin
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8 Features of the Google Glasses (As They'll Really Be Used)
The video demo of the new Google glasses is making the rounds. We update a few key moments for the sake of honesty.
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- By Sampsa Nuotio
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6 Prank Gadgets That Only a Sociopath Would Actually Use
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.
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- By Michael Corvinus
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5 Computer Hacks from Movies You Won't Believe Are Possible
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.
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- By Benjamin Buso
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