April Fool’s Day Roundup
Posted by timatherton | Posted in Tech news, Virals | Posted on 01-04-2009
Tags: Amazon, april fools, Google, Opera, Think Geek
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As the day that no one trusts anyone draws to a close I thought I would share some of the best April Fool’s announcements/pranks that I came across on Twitter, my feed reader and the web.
Opera Face Gestures
Speed up browser interaction by controlling your web browsing with a set of facial gestures. It’s now much easier to navigate by simply blinking right eye to go forward and left eye to go back. Let’s not forget how easy it is to bookmark the page by sticking out your tongue. Full instructions
Amazon Cloud Computing – In the clouds
Amazon are packing computers into helium filled blimps for their latest product, Floating Amazon Cloud Environment ( FACE), The airships will automatically travel to bring the cloud to you and then communicate via WiMAX or laser. More info
Using pigeons for an extended WIFI network
Qualcomm has come up with a great solution to the limited range of WI-FI base stations. They have been implanting mini routers into pigeons. Not content with just that they also improved performance by joining pigeon and wolf genes together.
Think Geek
Some great ‘new’ products including a Tauntaun Sleeping Bag. Like Luke Skywalker you too can snuggle up nice and warm in the guts of Tauntaun. More details
Nokia 5800 Sauna Edition
We all know how much the Finns love their saunas so the logical next step would be to a phone that would be safe to use in the sauna or steam room. It also comes with an anti-humidity coating and thermometer/hygrometer adjustment app called Nokia Löyly. More details
Google CADIE
It’s a tradition that Google launch something new on 1st April. This year’s offering was weaker than previous years but still a good effort. CADIE (Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity). Its Google Brain Search tool would use CADIE technology to index web users’ brains, “improving the speed and accuracy of memory retrieval” and eliminate “tip of the tongue syndrome”. More info