How top Techies celebrated April Fool's Day

April 1st is celebrated as April Fool’s Day or All Fools Day in many countries. People usually play prank on others and celebrate it. Tech companies also have celebrated April fools Day and, here is a list how the have done it this year.

BMW: ROYAL BABY CARRIAGE

BMW said today that “we are proud to announce the launch of our limited edition BMW P.R.A.M. (Postnatal Royal Auto Mobile)” to coincide with the birth of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s first child

THE GUARDIAN: GUARDIAN GOGGLES

Playing on Google Goggles, The Guardian newspaper released its own set of smart frames.

Google: Closing of YouTube, Treasure layer in Google Maps, Google Nose, Gmail Blue, Add emotions to Google+ pictures, Levity algorithm
Google is the master of humorous tech pranks for April Fools’ Day. We clearly don’t believe anything Google tells us on March 31 and April 1, but here’s a roundup of Google’s pranks:

Closing of YouTube

Treasure layer in Google Maps

Google Nose

Gmail Blue

Levity algorithm

Google+ emotions

Finally, the Google+ team added the ability to add “emotions” to pictures.

IKEA: FLAT-PACK LAWNMOWER

IKEA launched a “brand new, fully flat-pack GRÄSSAX lawnmower.”

NOKIA: TOUCHSCREEN LUMIA MICROWAVES

If you can’t win the people with Lumia Windows Phones, maybe it’s time to try pitching them onsmart microwaves?

RUNKEEPER FOR IPAD

Runkeeper brings its iPhone app for tracking your exercise to the iPad.

SPHERO: PEACEKEEPER EDITION

The Sphero robotic ball that can be controlled from your phone has been modified to help crush objects and trip runners. It costs $10,000.

SONY: PET TECHNOLOGY INCLUDING CAT HEADPHONES AND TVS FOR DOGS

Sony launched a set of technology for pets including Cat Cans, speakers for your hamster, andTVs for dogs.

THINKGEEK: PLAY-DOH 3D PRINTER AND EYE OF SAURON DESK LAMP

3D printing is super hot. Why not a 3D printer that works with Play-Doh? Oh, and how about a sweet “Eye of Sauron Desk Lamp” while you’re already ordering?

TWITTER: CHARGING TO USE VOWELS

It’s now going to cost to use vowels on Twitter, no more “LOL” for you freeloaders. You’ll just have to use smiley faces.

VIRGIN ATLANTIC: GLASS-BOTTOMED PLANE

Maybe the most scary sounding prank we’ve heard today is Virgin Atlantic’s proposed glass-bottom plane.

LET US KNOW WHAT WE MISSED

Other companies will surely have their own April Fools’ pranks today. Let us know in the comments what we missed or what you found particularly funny.

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Blowfish12@2013 blowfish12.tk Author: Sudharsun. P. R

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Google celebrates April fool's day

Google Celebrates April Fool’s day with some amazing features such as ‘Treasure Layer’ in Google Maps and a video suggesting YouTube will close tomorrow.

First up, as you can see in the photo above, a Google Maps look at San Francisco has a much different look that hearkens to old pirate tales. To see the Treasure Map layer, go into Google Maps and tap the Treasure option in the top right corner.

Google also released a three-and-a-half-minute April Fools’ video from the YouTube team (watch it below) saying that YouTube will close tomorrow and has actually been a massive contest to find the best video in the world. The company says it will review every video that has ever been uploaded and will delete everything else but the winner.

The search giant has also pushed out another practical joke called Google Nose, a program that lets you search by scent. This year Google’s flagship fake product is Google Nose. Nose purports to let you search for scents in Google search and use Android devices to smell objects and tell you what they are. Google says Nose can help you identify the smell of “a new car”, “the inside of an Egyptian tomb,” or “a ghost.”

“Our task as designers is to get our users the information they are looking for as quickly and beautifully as possible,” a Google user experience designer says in the video. “But until now we couldn’t give users what they are looking for — because sometimes they’re not looking at all.”

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Blowfish12@2013 blowfish12.tk Author: Sudharsun. P. R.

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