Top 10 Tech Scares of the Decade

11.01.2011

Actual outcome: Lies

That's right, the TSA will take away your bottled water and your nail file, but they'll let you keep your smartphone--despite the fact that the in-flight crew will warn all passengers to for the duration of the flight or .

There has of a cell phone causing interference with a plane's navigation system. Obviously--do you really think that they'd let everybody waltz onto a 500-ton metal aircraft with a potential bomb in their pocket? That would certainly make terrorists' jobs a lot easier.

Year: 2004