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DEFINITION: A technological innovation that doesn't work as expected because "normal people" can't figure out how to use it.

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Wrecknology

Created by: chalkdrinker

Pronunciation: rek-nall-oh-jee

Sentence: if it's such a great piece of wrecknology, why is the manual over 200 pages?

Etymology: Wreck, technology

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Good one! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-14: 12:34:00

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Technobscure

Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: tek-NOB-skyur

Sentence: Will 's VCR constantly blinked 12:00 because it was too technobscure for him to change. Besides, he kind of liked the way it blinked in time to the music.

Etymology: Tech + Nob (elite) + Obscure

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Invistaquacy

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: in/vis/tah/kwa/see

Sentence: Windows has come out with the latest invistaquacy. The user must have at least an information technology degree to download the manual.

Etymology: vista + inadequacy

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Painvention

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: pain + ven + shun

Sentence: This fancy-new phone is supposed to do everything, but it's such a painvention that I can't figure out how to make it do anything.

Etymology: pain + invention

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Techtard

Created by: japfilsk8er

Pronunciation: tech-tard

Sentence: confuse on how a device is used.

Etymology: technology , and being dumb, retard

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Featurd

Created by: VersaVice

Pronunciation: fee-terd

Sentence:

Etymology: feature + turd

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Unvention

Created by: younger

Pronunciation: UN-VEN-SHUN

Sentence: The device caused more headaches than solutions, hence it's nomination for the unvention of the year.

Etymology: Un + Invention More than just the opposite of an invention - in undoes what it is designed to do.

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Prefixtion! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-14: 11:02:00

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Misnology

Created by: skeeterzirra

Pronunciation: miss now loh zhe

Sentence: He said that it is foolproof, but that he underestimated the inventiveness of fools, but only one ubergeek has managed to figure it out.

Etymology: Mistaken technology

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