april fool

ThinkGeek’s Personal Soundtrack Shirt Becoming a Real Product

6:50AM Jason Chen | One of ThinkGeek’s many fantastic April Fool’s products is now becoming real, following the same path as the 8-bit Tie last year. This one, the Personal Soundtrack Shirt, takes a little bit more engineering effort than a tie, so if you’re interested in one you’ll have to put yourself on their notification list. But think of it, being able to blast the Imperial March or Magnificent Seven theme or the Get Smart theme whenever you enter a room? That’s what we call quality. [Think Geek]

I Put Little Boy Into a Coma With Nothing But My Presence

2:59PM Jason Chen | I’m going out the same way I came in. Pow! See you around, suckas. Hope you fools enjoyed my jibba jabba. Don’t do books, read milk, drink your drugs and respect yo mommas. More »

If You Don’t Get Your April Fool Out Of My Face I’m Gonna Turn You Into Chopped Liver

9:00AM Addy Dugdale | Yo! I’M MR. T!!! What an awesome day it’s been, guest editing the Giz. Some of you think it’s Talk Like T Day. Well, I’ll squash the punk—squash him like a bug—who suggests that April 1 was TLT Day. It’s April Fool, FOOL!! And to all you naysayers who think that Gizmodo sucked today, you know that the only thing you can hear is your little pea brain rolling round your head. And when I finish with you, you won’t even be able to hear that! By the time I do let you girl scouts go, you’re gonna be big on PAIN! But first I’m gonna make you all suffer with the rest of the web’s April Fools. More »

Green House Telephoto Kit Gives 8x Zoom to Mobile Phones, Superman, Fools

7:25PM Haroon Malik | Hey, fool! Why would I need a 8x mobile phone zoom lens, complete with additional universal handset tripod and holder? That’s right, I wouldn’t, because B.A’s eyesight is better than Superman’s. Still, for those without Mr. T’s 40:40 vision, Green House is doing a good thing releasing their Telephoto Kit. B.A. don’t know nothing about pricing or shipping dates, but he does know that if Superman were ever to come up against him, he’d pity that fool. And if you need the Green House Telephoto Kit, I pity you, fool! Now, I’m gonna go crush Balboa’s head in. Balboa, you ain’t Rocky, you just cocky and I’m gonna snap you like a Pocky! Arghh! [Akihabara News]

Who’s The Real April Fool? Whirlpool, NineMSN or Google?

9:14AM Nick Broughall | It’s April 1st, which means half of the stories you see here could be nothing more than an elaborate hoax. They’re not, but they could be. A couple of tech companies have actually put in a heap of effort to come up with some fairly elaborate April Fool’s jokes. Google sent out a press release this morning about their new gDay technology, which allows users to Google search into the future. Meanwhile, Whirlpool posted a press release on their site this morning announcing that they had been purchased by nineMSN for an undisclosed sum and would be integrated into the nineMSN family. Of the two, the Whirlpool announcement was a lot more convincing (although some commenters on the news.com.au Google story were taken in by the joke). Hit the jump for the full April Fool’s releases, if that kind of thing interests you… More »