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The Sun-Powered Plane That Set Solar Energy Back 50 Years
It's hard to screw up something that could run your car for free, which makes what we're about to show you that much more incredible.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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The New Pizza Hut App That Helps Make Kids Even Lazier
It must be tough to sell cheap, greasy pizza to a demographic that thinks malt liquor and Bugles are a balanced breakfast, Pizza Hut.
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- By Mark Hill
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5 Sci-Fi Gadgets That Are Really Just Everyday Objects
A good movie prop master can create the most realistic device from any old cheap piece of shit lying around.
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- By Eric Yosomono, Gregory Myers, Chris Fox
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Why the 'Zombieland' TV Show Bit Off More Than It Can Chew
If you've watched it, this was probably the thought running through your head: 'How did we go from such a great movie to ... this?'
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- By Luis Prada
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The Senator Who Wants You to Know He's Completely Insane
Last week, New York state senator Greg Ball made a tweet, which as we all know is never a good idea for an elected official whose name sounds like genitals.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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The 4 Best Moments from the Fastest Career Meltdown Ever
Last weekend, rookie news anchor A.J. Clemente debuted in his very first live broadcast at Bismarck, North Dakota's own KFYR-TV. It didn't go well.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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The New Sex Toy That Is Trying to Ruin Foreplay Forever
Fundawear, vibrating underwear controlled via smartphone app to keep you and your long-distance significant other from masturbating like normal human beings. Or, more likely, to fingerblast some stranger you just met on the Fundawear forums.
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- By XJ Selman
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4 Reasons Everyone in the New Superman Movie is a Dick
We're beginning to notice a disturbing trend with each new Superman preview -- every single character in the movie seems to be a massive shithead.
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4 Baffling Ways Famous Musicians Released Albums
Every now and then these gimmicks come along and are so hilariously misguided that you wonder if the artist's real goal is to drift back into obscurity.
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- By Ridley Davis
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5 Reasons No One Will Use Google Glass (Explained By Google)
We're not going so far out on a limb to say that Google Glass is the next Virtual Boy because, well ... we all still want one. Also, they already did it for us. Just watch the video, which, like the Virtual Boy ads, simply can't manage to downplay its own faults.
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- By CRACKED Staff
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The New Movie That Is Clearly a 'Men in Black' Rip-Off
In case you don't want to sit through the two and a half minutes of agony, we've broken it down for you.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Things People Tried to Patent
Creating something new is hard. It's certainly much easier to patent things that have already been invented, which is exactly what these people did.
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- By Michael Greenbrier, Ann Z.
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The GE Mascot That Proves They've Never Seen 'The Matrix'
A commercial has to pass before several sets of eyes before it even gets filmed, let alone before it makes it to television. This is why GE's new ad for its hospital equipment is so confounding.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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Why 'Time' Has Published the Least Responsible 'How To' Ever
Sometimes it's not enough to simply inform people of what happens in the world -- you have to jazz it up for the fearful and/or easily distracted.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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Why the New 'Hunger Games' Movie Is Orange and Blue
The 'Catching Fire' trailer was released on Sunday, in which it was revealed that the film has been shot in two colors.
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- By Jason Pargin
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