Best April Fools 2013 pranks

1. Google Nose BETA

True to form, Google has graced us with several April Fool’s Day hoaxes this year. The first we came across, on Google’s homepage, is Google Nose BETA, which Google touts as the new “scentsation in search.” The Google Aromabase has amassed an amazing 15-million-scentibyte data base. Beautiful in its simplicity, users just have to click the “Smell” button in their search result and sniff their computer, tablet or phone. With smells including vampire, gym, frying onions, diapers, new car, ghost, Egyption tomb and victory, Google Nose users have a lot of smelling to do.

LINK:  http://www.google.com/landing/nose/

  2. YouTube’s ready to select a winner
 
YouTube revealed today that the entire company's existence was just an eight-year-long contest to find the best video in the world. Tonight at midnight the site is shutting down and a staff of 30,000 technicians will spend the next 10 years in deliberations to determine the winner. YouTube will relaunch in 2023 with the winning video and nothing else. And it’s not a popularity contest; Gangnam Style has as much a chance to win as a video with only 40 views of a man feeding bread to a duck. As promised in 2005, the winner will receive an MP3 player that clips to a shirtsleeve and a $500 stipend for his or her next creative endeavor.

LINK:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H542nLTTbu0

  3. Twttr

Twitter announced that it is switching to a two-tiered service: the basic Twttr, for which users can use only consonants, and the $5 a month option which includes vowels. Twitter tells us the new Twttr service will encourage “a more efficient and ‘dense’ form of communication.” “Y” will be free to everyone. Twitter recommends that you practice tweeting without vowels, including the hashtag #nvwls. Early adopters include Joan Rivers.

LINK:  http://blog.twitter.com/2013/03/annncng-twttr.html


4. Virgin's glass-bottom plane

Richard Branson and Virgin Atlantic have announced an exciting aviation breakthrough: the ability to book a glass-bottomed plane along its new domestic Scottish route. Little Red passengers will now have a bird's-eye view of Great Britain as they fly. If the flights prove popular, Virgin Atlantic will consider adding glass-bottomed planes to other routes as well. Nervous flyers are encouraged to book on traditional, non-glass-bottomed planes

LINK:  http://blog.virgin-atlantic.com/t5/Our-Experience/Virgin-Atlantic-Launches-World-s-First-Ever-Glass-Bottomed-Plane/ba-p/6096


5.  The kid president
 
Even the White House is having a go at April Fool’s Day pranks. “A Special Message From the President” appeared on the White House website at 10 a.m. this morning,. Popping up from behind the podium, a well-dressed young man says, “It looks like you were expecting somebody else. Well, April Fool’s on all y’all!” And then he says some other stuff.  An April Fool’s Day must-see.  (The video's also available at www.whitehouse.gov.) 

LINK:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5byDhm-E-YE


6.  Kodak's Wrist Kiosk

Want to print out photos with a minimum of fuss and bother? Kodak's Wrist Kiosk may be just the ticket. It allows users to print photos via a micro SD card, USB or Bluetooth. But the Kodak Wrist Kiosk also supports Wi-Fi so it can access your photos from Facebook, Flickr and Instagram. Kodak’s blog entry declares, “It has never been easier to make your life’s biggest moments into tiny prints and photo gifts.” Each Kodak Wrist Kiosk comes with tweezers and a magnifying glass. The link at the end to “Get on the waiting list” redirects interested parties to Wikipedia’s April Fool’s Day page.

LINK:  http://1000words.kodak.com/2013/04/01/presenting-kodak-wrist-kiosk/?utm_source=www.kodak.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=main1-watch_040113&utm_campaign=Corp-Homepage