How many did you spot yesterday? Here’s a few of those I came across.
The Sun posted a picture of penguins and said there was a hidden polar bear somewhere in it. It may have fooled Sun readers, but not those who know that penguins and polar bears live in opposing polar regions.
Think Geek always have a pile of April Fools items for “sale”, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell what is real from what is not. In fact, some of previous years’ fake products actually became real products. This year, those I’m pretty sure aren’t real include a 25ft Attack on Titan lawn ornament, a travel Magic the Gathering set (complete with tiny cards) and a Diet Coke and Mentos rocket. The Star Trek 50th Anniversary White Noise Sleep Machine seems a bit too likely to me.
Ales by Mail were showing off their new 3D Beer Printer, which would be a great idea but there’s no way anyone is falling for that.
Google are normally great with their April Fools, but one didn’t go down well this year. They added a “Drop Mic” function to Gmail, where clicking the new Drop Mic button to send an email adds a Minion dropping a mic gif to your message, and also automatically bins all replies. Problem is, the new button replaced the “Send and Archive” button so many people with muscle memory for that action got caught out. Some worse than others:
Apparently, a bug was causing some users to Mic Drop even when they clicked Send instead. Google quickly removed their new “feature”.
No-IP tried (not very hard) to convince us they were offering dynamic DNS services on the moon, and soon on Mars too. Nobody was going to fall for that. Most people didn’t even know what it means.
The European Space Agency posted a photo from their Trace Gas Orbiter, but oh noes! Someone left the lens cap on before shooting it off into space! What a waste of time and money.
Speaking of space, Royal Caribbean tweeted news of their new Orbiter of the Galaxies space cruise ship. Uh huh.
Nig*l Farage (rhymes with Garage) hilariously tweeted he was backing the campaign to remain in the EU. I won’t dignify him with a link.
More Twitter “fun” from Rouse, makers of various honey products, with their announcement of a new Wasp Honey. They even went as far as creating a wonderful diagram, and if anything is convincing, it’s a diagram.
YouTube launched SnoopaVision, where you watch YouTube clips in a cinema with Snoop Dogg. You can drag the camera round, hear him comment on the videos, and boggle at how this will change everything. Also: Snoop Dogg will literally do anything for money.
Other mentions should also go to Right Guard, who have launched Left Guard, Beefeater who have developed a steak juice fake tan (“Steak Tan”, ohoho) product, and Pimm’s are sponsoring Big Ben. But Big Ben is the bell, Pimm’s, not the clock. Ohwhatagiveaway.
Finally, the BBC will be posting you VHS copies of any BBC shows you buy from their store. I’d quite like that one to be true, but no. Ah well.
What did you spot that I missed?
