Frog in your buttock that don’t want to. Once again it is april 1st and that means that a lot of tech trying to get us as an audience in a good joke to let stairs. A selection from the jokes which we up to now online have encountered.
Google is on techgebied for years lord and master, with multiple jokes. Also this year takes the search giant a lot. So you can Pac-Man play in Google Maps. Although the funny thing is, it is not really a joke: it works really. In so doing, it is a little reminiscent of the joke of Tweakers last year, the 8bit game TweakBattle.
But Google had even more in store: users of Chrome on Android can Wednesday, to be welcomed with the new feature Chrome Selfie, which allows users to their responses to web sites with the front-facing camera of their device can capture. Also Googles internettak Google Fiber came up with a joke: Fiber gets a Dial Up Mode, internet with the speed of a 56k modem connection so that users of time had to spare during the loading of web pages to coffee. It doesn’t stop there, because Google also comes with Void to get rid of unwanted online accounts to delete. That sounds serious – and we would probably use if it is a well established function was – but it is hilarious.
Microsoft can of course not be left behind: it has its ‘simplest mobile operating system’ ever created: MS-DOS Mobile. The operating system has a simple installation: as an app on Windows Phone.
MS-DOS Mobile is not the only innovation in operating systems this 1 april. Linux now supports a negative number of cpu’s. The big advantage? If you are -1024 cpu’s have, the software already running before you have it written.
The question every year is: who will now turn a 1-April joke with Clippy? Tweakers did that in 2011 with the TopicAssistant, Microsoft did itself last year already and this year it is the turn of Sunrise, Microsoft’s subsidiary that is a calendar app for mobile platforms. The app is now Clippy ingrained. Sunrise was not the only one who Clippy stables cited: the code of Clippy would also be under an open source license on GitHub.
In addition to Microsoft with MS-DOS and Google with Pac-Man grip also Amazon back to the past. The joke of Amazon, however, has more impact: the frontpage of the around the turn of the century restored. Who Amazon.com type, the page automatically. It shows especially good to see how web design in the past fifteen years has changed. Amazon is not the only one: also, Gentoo has its site a retro look.
Also, mobile providers did their best with the 1 april. Tele2 came SoLTE, Scent on LTE. Thus, users can scents send via 4g. Although Tele2 is the message Monday already sent, smoke the whole techpers as all danger. Vodafone joins in with SmartConvert, a way to cash in to scan and add to your mobile wallet. Fixed provider Tweak comes with electricity, through fiber, allowing flow through the lower resistance of glass fiber, the faster the people at home and cables less hot.
Of course, there are also the necessary hardware firms with fictional products. As announced OnePlus with a drone to come, with the witty model number DR-1. The DR-1 exists and is to be ordered, but it is not a drone: it is a small quadcoptertje. This was perhaps one of the most credible 1-fool hoaxes, because it is also the Chinese Xiaomi a well known smartphone – launches regulated products that unbelievable sound, such as an air freshener and smart scales. For the sake of clarity: these are not 1-fool hoaxes.
OnePlus is not the only one who thought of flying objects, noticed Qualixo. Parrot, known for drones, claims after two years and eight months of investigation finally have a flying saucer to have developed.
Motorola is doing a coin in the bag with a leather selfie-stick. In the accompanying video says the designer that the selfie-stick ‘is more than an accessory; it is an extension of yourself’. Given the popularity of selfie sticks, we see a smartphonemaker sometimes such a stick really.
HTC also has a fictional wearable are presented: The Re Sok is a, well, pair of socks with built-in screen. The most convenient feature is that the pair of socks thanks to positioning each other can always find.
For some companies, it is the first day of april a chance to rumors on the heel. Users who have a nightly of CyanogenMod flashing, getting a very special message in the picture. The screen is a Windows logo, with the message, CyanogenMod, Powered by Microsoft. Last few months were a lot of rumors about a collaboration between Microsoft and CyanogenMod. Incidentally, there is some truth to it: Microsoft is itself a custom rom with Windows 10 release for an Android phone from Xiaomi – no 1-April joke.
CyanogenMod is not the only one that for 1 april claims she is lying in bed with a ‘competitor’. The creators of Popcorn Time claim to have been adopted by Netflix, noticed 0x2665. Yeah, yeah.
Samsung did a coin in the bag with the Galaxy Blade Edge, the world’s first ‘smart knife’, which is what appears on the Galaxy Note Edge and S6 Edge. Tweakers noted that the S6 Edge ‘a bit sharp’ to the touch at the edges, but it was not in us occurred to make a getaway to start cutting.
Carmaker Honda says not so much to believe in the ‘self driving car’, but in the ‘selfie car’, and so there is a special edition of the HR-V with ten selfiecamera’s on board, the HR-V Selfie.
Judge Fredd pointed us to PlayStation Flow, that allows gamers to scenes from games that are under water playing also in the water can be control. As an added bonus, the dryer that allows you to within a few seconds, wiped and so he can play.
Also other corners of the game industry do merrily along. So reports the Mirror that Sports Interactive, the ontwikkelstudio behind Football Manager, working with motion capture for managers, so that the gestures that football coaches along the sidelines to make realistic in the next Football Manager game can be processed.
Also the Russian studio Gaijin Entertainment, is doing a coin in the bag. Video game War Thunder is in accordance with the following trailer extended with walking tanks. Given the fact that these machines are not at all fit in with the rest of the game, this trailer also on this home page.
The most startling news this april 1st, however, comes from Switzerland, where CERN has discovered that ‘the Force’, known from the Star Wars movies, really exists. “Very impressive, this result is,” said a little green spokesperson of the laboratory.
This overview is only the harvest of the things that we saw along the way. We fill this post in the course of the day.