Category: Fun

It Must Be April 😉

Google Gnome

Google Maps – Ms Pac-man

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Coca-Cola Helium

All the taste of Coke, all the fun of inhaling a helium balloon and speaking with a squeaky voice.

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Virgin Train Ticket Tattoos

Well, now, says Virgin Trains, customers can get their train ticket permanently tattooed on their body, thanks to the magic of Tick-Ink.

 

Amazon Introduces Petlexia:

 

Burger King Toothpaste

To keep the tasty flavours lasting longer, BURGER KING® has created WHOPPER TOOTHPASTE .

Subway Ice Sandwich Flavored Ice Cream

Oh our aching sides
Oh our aching sides CREDIT: SUBWAY

And Subway:  “On 1 April 2017, the SUBWAY® brand is launching their first ever ice cream range… inspired by the nation’s most love Subs. The savoury SUBZero range is available in these three delicious flavours for a limited time only:

  • Meatball Marinara
  • Chicken Tikka
  • Tuna

Groupon’s Gin-sauna

 

And for a look back at previous tomfoolery:

 

 

REPOST: How Much Daylight does Daylight Savings Time really save us?

groundhogWhile sleeping in this morning (with the extra hour I gained last night) I consider: 

If, at 2:00 AM I set my clock to 1:00 AM, what happens in 60 mins when 2:00 AM rolls back around?
While pondering this Groundhog's day-esque vicious cycle, I invite you to re-read this post about the (un)importance of Daylight Savings Time

This weekend, many of us once again resumed standard time. Wondering if it’s worth it? This Interactive chart will help you apply some personal perspective to the argument for or against Daylight Savings Time.

Click here to view DST Interactive Chart at Quartz.com

DST Interactive

Additional reading..

Cheers!

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Happy Birthday, VisiCalc!

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Excel, wish your granddad a happy 37th birthday  🎂

 

 

BMW iDriver Assisted Motorcycle

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BMW Motorrad Next Vision 100

Driverless Motorcycles? Of course not!

The growth autonomous vehicles suggests that car drivers have lost of zeal of driving cars. And who can blame us; sitting in traffic on the 101; refereeing a backseat spate between siblings, parallel parking. None of these activities amount to the ZoomZoom we associate (or would like to associate) with driving. Car driving is more chore than a recreation. We like to envision the joy of ‘the open road’ experience as similiar sailing the open seas. However, the pothole congested reality of it is you experience is less sailboat, and more schoolfish..mirthlessly following the other fish..in a dull and narrow stream

Motorcycles, conversely, have always been about the thrill of the ride. The experience begs and rewards independent control. Traffic? So what? Watch that biker cut between lanes like 660 horsepowered knife through butter. Freedom? Certainly more so than their quad-wheeled cousins. But is it safe? Well, there is a reason why helmets are required, and other protection strongly advised. Into this valley between safety and freedom, enters BMW’s vision of future of motorcycling.

Artificial Intelligence = Autonomy, Safety & Sexy*
*Although Safe-Autonomous-Sexy makes for a better acronym

BMW’s new concept motorcycle merges some driver assist safety features with a cool sleek sexy look, sure to turn heads.

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Welcome the zero-emission, electric powered smartbike of the future; The Motorrad Vision Next 100. This bike’s smart systems will anticipate the road ahead and offer the rider guidance on what to do to manage incident avoidance and can even step in and take over if necessary. The self-balancing system is designed to prevent tip-over both while in motion as well as when standing still.

Helmet? Shmelmet!

A ride this safe has little need for a helmet (what!?). Replacing that clunky piece of hardware is a lightweight visor.

This visor not only serves as a windshield, but also overlays important information on the HUD, like anticipated twists and turns, traffic, nearest Wendy’s.

This is a long way from drawing board to road, and no word yet on pricing.

Can Tron Litghtcycles really be that far behind?

Row, Row, Robo-Boat: Amsterdam’s Self-Driving Boats

“I want to go to there.”

The self-driving movement is coming to Amsterdam’s canals. Researchers are planning to launch “roboats” to traverse the Dutch capital’s canals next year, part of a five-year project to test the self-driving vessels’ ability to transport people and goods in a city whose area is about one-quarter water.

For more, follow this link to Quartz article.

Hoverboards, at last (again)

Franky Zapata of Flyboards, pilots a real hoverboard for a distance over 1 mile (1.6 km). Flyboards ,those same people that made the water propelled hoverboard, now take it horizontal using air jets.

Now what about those flying cars we were promised!

April Fools 2016

Today many of your favorite sites are April Fool‘n around.

For example, take Gmail’s MicDrop feature. It promises to give you the last word on your outgoing message. 

MicDropI wish this feature did exist; it’d be a great way to silence those REPLY-TO-ALLers.

Update: Much like Orson Welles‘ radio broadcast of War of the Worlds this faux feature, was believed real. Citing a backlash of complaints, GMail quickly disabled this Aprils Fool’s joke

Past Tom Foolery has included Air BnB’s Bronze Era Rentals (pictured) complete with Trojan Horse, and Burger King’s left-handed sandwich wrapper.

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This Year H&M is onboard with a Mark Zuckerberg line of clothing http://markforhm.com/

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More faves and fails from 2016:

Found one you want to share? Drop me a comment and I’ll add it to this post.

 

Cheers!