Wikipedia has a round-up of April Fool's Day hoaxes. Among our favourites are The Economist's announcement of plans to genetically engineer pet dragons; and the DivX Head Up Display (XHUD) for projecting DivX videos onto a car's front windscreen.
Other good 'uns include Mobile Gazette announcing UK government plans to close down the country's GSM networks for re-use with a top-secret citizen-surveillance scheme; The Register claiming that China bought a controlling stake in Google; and Geeks.com's all-in-one cellphone, PC/PDA, MP3/video player/recorder, talking GPS universal remote.
Perhaps best of all, and a bargain at just £189.99, is the 2GB USB memory stick on gadget site IWOOT - for downloading your brain's memory,
Do you have trouble
remembering stuff?
Would you sometimes like to share your memories with others? Well now
you can with the IWOOT Memory Stick. Using razor edge technology that's
so advanced it's really quite ahead of itself, the Memory Stick enables
you to download and upload memory fragments via a temporal lobe sensor
and store them on the USB Memory Stick. You can then load the memories
onto your computer - essentially backing up your brain for when you
forget stuff in your old age! The PC (not Mac compatible yet
regrettably) software allows you to store up to an amazing ten years of
memories, sort them alphabetically, and even e-mail them to friends and
family - though they will need to have their own USB Memory Stick in
order to 'run' them, as well as your security code to unlock them.
Oh, and don't forget to check out HEXUS.lifestyle's own unveiling of a cracking new product - Egcellent Ideas' ring-pull eggs. These can be opened without spilling their contents or breaking the yolks.
Egcellent Ideas'
ring-pull egg (click for larger image)Got any April Fool's favourites of your own? Why not tell us about them in the HEXUS.community.
