Tag: april fools
Google Panda is Google Japan’s April Fools Joke
“Amazon Dash Button” April Fools Joke actually looks useful
The April Fool's joke we wish was real – the RC Eagle i
There are plenty of tech-y April Fool's gags doing the rounds on the net today, but we've got a real soft spot for the RC Eagle i, a "concept product" by Thumbs Up. Scheduled for release this Autumn (don't hold…
Gmail Motion will have you flailing around your inbox like an April Fool
Those tricksy folks over at Google have got the interwebs into a right stir this morning by announcing the launch of Gmail Motion, letting you control your email with Kinect-style body movements. Watch the full description of the new…
Top five April Fool's Day stories
Now that it’s gone midday, we’ll give up on the fake news and go back to the real deal. Before that, though, I wanted to salute a few of the better April Fool’s Day stories from around the web this morning.
5) Guardian now only available on Twitter
4) Moo.com’s super-eco-friendly business cards
3) Warner Bros. acquires the Pirate Bay
2) LoveFilm removes all french-made and french-language films
1) Bigfoot discovered in Windows 7
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Branson and Google team up… and play the best April Fools trick
At yesterday’s CITA Wireless Trade Show, Sir Richard Branson used his keynote to announce a prank partnership with Google, whose purpose is to build a solar-powered spaceship that will take 30 passengers on a one-way trip to Mars…
Wreak office-based havoc with the Phantom Keystroker from ThinkGeek
Here’s a particularly sneaky gadget, just in time for April Fool’s Day. Disguised as a random circuit board (admittedly not the most discreet choice), plug the Phantom Keystroker into your victim’s USB port and it’ll either intermittently blurt out random words and phrases or take over the mouse, depending on what you set it to.
