April Fools' Tech Roundup: Kodak Kittens, Gmail Tap, and More! -
Enjoying April Fools' Day yet? A day when all legitimate tech reporting grinds to a standstill, for what company would be foolish enough to make a market-changing announcement on a day reserved for jokes and pranks? Worse, it's a Sunday; nobody (save for AT&T and T-Mobile) likes Sundays.
To spare you from having to hunt down the official websites of every product manufacturer or company you care for to see all the craziness they've posted for today, we've gathered up our favorite April Fools' gags below. Use these to fuel your creative spirit as you think of all sorts of methods (or Facebook updates) with which to fool your friends and loved ones.
We've already covered gaming and Google Maps, but Google's 8-bit transformation was but the tip of its April Fools' Day iceberg. The company's since gone on to debut Gmail Tap(Morse code for your email), partnered up with NASCAR to launch autonomous car racing(run for the hills), launched Chrome Multitask Mode (multiple-cursor support), and finally allowed users to search for "subtext and innuendo" via its new Really Advanced Searchfeature.
Elsewhere, AdBlock – the popular browser extension that keeps one's Web surfing experience free of annoying advertisements – announced that it's now expanding its services to block cat pictures as well. But Kodak's actually gone and embraced cat pictures with its latest creation, a machine that actually allows you to print a real-life kitten from the comfort of your home.
Sony's debuted a quarter-sized "Ultrabook" in the hope that it can forever shut the door on the miniaturization race among laptop manufacturers (assuming one figures out how to type on the thing). It'll be tough to watch the $2.2-million YouTube collection on that tiny laptop — a 442,956-DVD set of every single video ever posted to YouTube (which costs nearly $60,000 to ship via standard trucks).
We think your best bet is to just stream your YouTube videos on your O2 On & On: A smartphone that comes with 1,000 hours of talk time and 92 days' worth of standby time. Or, if you really love YouTube, it only makes sense to pull it up on a new Toshiba Shapetablet.
Thanks to April Fools 2012, you can book an Airbnb trip to the International Space Station, you can take even crappier pictures on Flickr than what your favorite camera smartphone app could ever accomplish, and you can even book a trip to the center of the earth on Virgin Volcanic (and perhaps pay for it using a Branson). Or, if you prefer to hitchhike to a new destination (or charter a trip on the Millennium Falcon), flight-finding service Hipmunk has you covered.
Assuming, of course, you're still alive.
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