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4 Medical Miracles that Harness the Power of Sound. The medical field is perfecting the use of sound in many procedures, steadily leading us toward a future in which all hospitals look like the record store from A Clockwork Orange. #4.

4 Medical Miracles that Harness the Power of Sound

Performing Surgery medgadget As it turns out, sound can cut you pretty deep (and not just with Nothing Compares 2 U). Scalpels and needles are being replaced in some surgical procedures by various ultrasound techniques, because apparently doctors are no longer getting paid enough to actually hold anything. 4 Things Movies Always Get Wrong About Computer Hackers.

5 Famous Inventors (Who Stole Their Big Idea) It has become clear that it's up to the Cracked staff to re-educate America.

5 Famous Inventors (Who Stole Their Big Idea)

See, we slept through high school, so we were lucky. We avoided the years and years of brainwashing that accompanies a standard education. To those of you unfortunate enough to have been subjected to a lifetime in the public school system, we've got some bad news for you that you probably won't find in your text books: Every brilliant inventor you've ever loved is a huge, thieving asshole. 5 World-Famous Products That Are Shameless Rip-Offs. You know a product or brand has become a big deal when cheap, generic knockoffs start showing up everywhere: Transformers had Go-Bots, Bruce Springsteen had John Mellencamp and Mad magazine had Cra ... um, you get the idea.

5 World-Famous Products That Are Shameless Rip-Offs

However, it turns out that many of the "knockoff" brands we've scoffed at in the supermarket were there before the more famous, million-dollar "original" product ... that totally stole their idea. Like ... #5. LEGO Copied Its Big Idea from Kiddicraft Blocks Vincenzo Lombardo via Getty LEGO building blocks are one of the best known toy lines in the world, and for good reason. It's such a simple yet genius idea, you can't help but wonder how the guys who started the company came up with it -- or rather, how they came up with it before anyone else. Hint: They didn't. 5 Powerful Sci-Fi Technologies Wasted by their Own Movies. How many times have we seen James Bond pick up some incredibly useful new technological gadget that ends up saving his life, only to completely forget it exists in his next movie?

5 Powerful Sci-Fi Technologies Wasted by their Own Movies

But it isn't just Bond -- action heroes do this all the time. Some cool new technology is introduced for the sake of one scene, then dumped in a basement and never mentioned again. If you stop to think about it, it turns out that a lot of these gadgets and inventions wouldn't just make the lives of our heroes a lot easier -- some of them might even change the world. #5. The Paralyzing Device in Iron Man Is a Bigger Deal Than the Suit The Tech. 7 Simple Tasks That Would Have Been Magic Back in the Day. Hey, remember the good old days, when technology's refusal to advance at a rapid enough pace effectively handcuffed all the fun you could have had as a child to a radiator and forced you to play outdoors instead like some kind of freak show?

7 Simple Tasks That Would Have Been Magic Back in the Day

If not, this will help ... #7. An Entire Duck Hunt Cartridge Could Not Hold Half of One Level of Angry Birds With a download size of 19.4 MB and 345 levels, a single level of Angry Birds averages out to roughly 440 Kb. There is likely to be some variance, of course. . #6. The IBM 3380, one of the first commercially available hard-drive-based digital storage systems, featured 2.5 GB of storage space, was the size of a refrigerator and would set you back at least $200,000.

. #5. 6 Man-Made Materials You Won't Believe Exist. The 5 Most Terrifying Sci-Fi Upgrades to Deadly Weapons. As long as humans exist, we will probably need weapons, and as long as we have weapons, we will be looking for ways to upgrade them to new, awesome, horrible levels.

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. #5. The Electroshock Cyborg Fist Wired.co.uk. 5 Internet Annoyances That Are Way Older Than the Internet. The 9 Most Insane Vehicles That Are Street Legal. Even if you're not really into cars, everyone has a dream vehicle.

The 9 Most Insane Vehicles That Are Street Legal

If it's not the standard answer like "classic Mustang" or "Bugatti Veyron," then maybe it's, say, the Batmobile, or a car that flies. 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? After all, at this moment you can buy ... #9. Via Extravaganzi.com Oh, hell yes. The good people at Putsch Racing hereby bring you this perfectly functional, street legal replica of the 1989 Tim Burton movie version of the Batmobile. As roughly 120 percent of Cracked readers are dedicated Batman fans, chances are you're looking at the epitome of every automotive fantasy you've ever had.