Google's April Fools' Prank Is A Pet Project, Fur Real
... through it, too. Welcome to the internet, cats and dogs, please don't dig through my Twitter history. Are you "Feeling Meow". The search engine giant has built a reputation out of April Fools' Day, tricking visitors each year. Last year's " Drop the Mic " joke backfired when it got rid of a feature that people actually use on Gmail. As part of its long-standing April 1 tradition, the company has also hinted at Pokemon Go two years before it actually came out , declared an end to You Tube and announced the Google Nose wearable. For this year, Google updated its i OS app with "I'm Feeling Woof" and "I'm Feeling Meow," which can be activated with 3 D Touch on the app icon. You can also prompt the new modes by heading to settings in the app and select the two new options. A screen populates with a cat or dog paw, depending on which one you picked, that takes you to a page ...
Best Aussie April Fool’s Jokes
... the ‘Child Wheel’. The Child Wheel is designed for children to play and exercise. While using the wheel for running, the generated energy flows into the rechargeable batteries. Its way of functioning can be compared to how hybrid cars work, but with no other power source than the child itself. The wheel is designed in a way that for every lap the maximum amount of torque is delivered, resulting in the optimal energy conversion. The Child Wheel, created by Cupo Nation. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied. THE TATTOO SPELL CHECKER APP. Travel Insurance Direct launched a new app, known as the ‘TID: We’ve Got Your Back’ App, a free tattoo spell checker. Ahead of tourists getting inked, the App will simply scans the artist’s flash-sheet to reveal any pesky tattoo typos among English, Thai and Indonesian characters, ensuring they aren’t scarred for life. The app that can tell if you're ...
Adam Trent’s Top 5 April Fool’s Day Pranks
... Christmas, Hannukah, Halloween and Turkey Day, all rolled into one. To get some ideas for solid pranks that don’t require a ton of props or prep, we turned to Adam Trent, magician and star of Red Bull TV’s upcoming series, The Road Trick. After all, anyone who can apply a tattoo on your palm without you realising it, or quite literally make a person disappear – no trap doors on this concrete sidewalk, folks – before your eyes must know a thing or two about a good practical joke, right. What makes a good April Fool's joke is a great set-up and then how willing you are to play it out. Adam Trent. 1. Totaled mobile. One of Trent’s favourites that involves an old, broken mobile phone with a cracked screen. Remember that phone you cracked but never threw away? Now's its time for glory. “If you don’t already have one, you can buy them online or at a phone-repair store for next to nothing,” Trent says. “Ask to borrow your friend’s phone. Secretly ...
5 Epic April Fools' Day Pranks For Social Good
... Naked demonstrators swarmed their lobby, demanding that the heath care industry stop prioritizing profit over public health. “We stand here naked, completely vulnerable, a state in which the current system leaves millions around the world,” ACT UP London’s Jake Chambers told New Now Next. “We also stand with bareness and honesty, and we demand that drug companies be exposed in the same way.”. 4. The ‘Yes Men’ unveiled their shenanigans. A group called the “ Yes Men ” once surprised senators on Capitol Hill by presenting a “ Survivaball ” suit that helps people survive climate change. They’ve also impersonated corporate representatives who said they’d clean up a toxic chemical spill in India on BBC World — the actual company refused. The Yes Men released a DVD of their anti-establishment antics on April 1, 2010. 5. Sea Shepherd claimed to set up 500 seal ...
The Best April Fools' Day Pranks In History
... in Switzerland where pasta noodles growing from tree branches were shown being picked by women in traditional Swiss costumes. “Many of you, I am sure, will have seen pictures of the vast spaghetti plantations in the Po Valley,” Dimbleby said. “For the Swiss, however, it tends to be more of a family affair.”. He told viewers that the spaghetti is then laid out to dry in the Alpine air before being used for an end-of-harvest spaghetti feast. “Picked early in the day, dried in the sun, and so brought fresh from garden to table at the very peak of condition. For those who love this dish,” Dimbleby concluded, “there is nothing like real home-grown spaghetti.”. The segment was met with mixed reactions , according to __link__. Some complained that the BBC had violated its audiences’ trust. A huge number, ...
Say What? Amazon Echo Now Comes With A Special Petlexa Feature
... look hot as an unlimited human hotspot," the fake commercial promises. In honor of April Fools' Day, Man Crates, a website with gifts geared toward men, decided to make their man crates big enough to fit an actual, medium-sized man. "The most impactful gifts are the ones given in person, but with the pricey costs of airfare and the 'mystery scents' of bus travel, most long-distance gift-givers have resigned to just shipping their gifts," the company said. "That all changes today.". Here's how the gag works: You'd go to the Man Crates factory and get comfortable inside a 16-square foot crate. You'd be boarded up and shipped off until your best bro pries the crate open and gets what is - hopefully - a welcome surprise. The dating apps are also getting in on the joke. Hinge has a hilarious idea that may strike fear in the hearts of every person who has relatives nagging about when they're going to get married. Hinge's terrifying Parental Controls feature lets users give their parents access to their ...
The 13 Best April Fools’ Day Pranks Of 2017
... a very real problem, thieves who steal boxes from your front door. The company’s solution? Create a box that becomes invisible. The problem is that even the customer might miss it, but, hey, it’s certainly safer. For all those Ghostbusters haters. Men who are still getting over their PTSD after seeing women cast as the leads in Ghostbusters surely started hyperventilating when the director of that movie, Paul Feig, sent out a tweet this morning announcing a reboot of Back to the Future with an all-female cast. It's OFFICIAL! I'm rebooting Back to the Future with an amazing all-female cast! #Marie Mc Fly #BTTF 18 ! Thanks, Bob Z., for believing in me. — Paul Feig (@paulfeig) April 1, 2017. Retirement fake-out. Michael Phelps sent out a tweet this morning saying he was ready for a comeback to participate in the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. Some dreams/goals you just can't get rid of.been doing a lot of thinking n I've decided that I'm ...
The Best And Worst Pranks
... it out for himself. Netflix’s marking of the day took the form of “Netflix Live,” a remarkably peaceful video of Will Arnett narrating ordinary objects. Is it a joke? Deeper satire on live video trends? Who can say. Fellow Verge reporter Megan Farokhmanesh has the full details if you’d like to know more. Reddit’s April Fools’ joke is less of a joke and more of a giant social experiment, similar to last year’s The Button. This year’s project, titled Place , is a large while pixel grid that each user can place a colored pixel on every five minutes. Reddit being Reddit, the grid has quickly been overtaken by a number of semi-religious cults and several crudely drawn images of genitalia, as the site’s community once again illustrates why we can’t have nice things. The language learning site has made a special course for April Fools’, teaching not German or Spanish but Emoji , which might be helpful for adults trying to understand teens. And there actually is a flash card set to help you learn, so that’s something. Amazon has an Alexa-themed joke for the day, with a new “Petlexa” integration, that purports to make your Echo capable of understanding ...
All The Best Fake News And Pranks
... Richard Osman, while the Hall is particularly happy to welcome back Sir Michael Caine, who will be joined by a string quartet to perform his 2012 classic. "Ed Balls Day founder Ed Balls will also take to the world’s most famous stage to read ‘Ed Balls’, the widely-shared Tweet composed by Ed Balls, which inspired the first ever Ed Balls Day:". Meh-Mite - the new, blander Marmite that's impossible to love or hate. Nice, nice, can see what you did there Marmite. It's immediately recognisable as an April Fool, ties in with established brand messaging, and is nowhere near as pleased with itself as some of the other insufferable nonsense on this page. We give this April Fool six out of ten. Simon Cowell's son to get his own Golden Buzzer on Britain's Got Talent. Big showbiz scoop here from the Sun's Bizarre editor Dan Wooton, who reports that Eric Cowell, Simon's three-year-old son, will be putting one act straight through to the semi-finals in the forthcoming series of Britain's ...
Here’s The Best And Worst Of This Year’s Pranks So Far
... Auntie Anne's changes its logo to try to connect with millennials. In an effort to connect with today’s kids and their filters and their instaglams and their snapcharts, Auntie Anne is ditching the halo from their logo in favor of the flower crown found in every music festival selfie taken in the past two years. Online __link__' totally practical label delivery service. All the cool kids are delivering things by drone now (or at least saying they TOTALLY WILL at some point in the future maybe). But why use one big drone to deliver a package when you can use multiple small drones instead? More drones = more good, right. Trulia's Pet Listings. Between landlords that don’t like cat hair everywhere and neighbors that don’t want to hear your dogs barking anymore, your pets pretty much determine where you live anyway. Why not just ...
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