April Fool's day roundup

The tech world loves to go a little nuts on April Fool's day; we usually stand by and watch the madness ensue, but we figured we'd lend a hand keep you in the know. Trust us, you don't want nerds punking you, that kind of upsets the natural pecking order. (Oh yeah, and if you've got any good ones, drop 'em in comments.)

Engadget & ThinkGeek - Art Lebedev's Vilcus dactyloadapter
Google - Google unveils "dark porcelain"-based TiSP home broadband service [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Google - Gmail paper, it's finally here!
Phonescoop - Apple caves to Cingular's demands, Sanyo switchblade phone, Moto RAVR and BLZR, Googlephone interface revealed, and E-TEN buys Palm
El Reg - Apple and Google making phone together
CNET - Apple TiVo undercover peek
ThinkGeek - WiiHelm and a bunch of other fake crap
PirateBay - PirateBay finds home in North Korea [Via Slashdot]
more...

Geeks.com - Rent an Asimo
IDG.se - Sony Ericsson Aibo, aww [Thanks, David]
Philip Baker - Cellphone companies fess up for crap service. Yeah right.
Gearlog - 200GB 40x zoom Treo 650CTU, Jack Bauer edition
Wii Fanboy - Nintendo adds new Virtual Console glitch emulator
Skype Journal - Skype for Cows! It's about damned time.
PocketNow - Windows Mobile 7 naming scheme leaked. Our favorite: "Windows Mobile 7.00 without Touchscreen and Professional Application Suite Edition"

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 1st 2007 11:08PM]

Mandatory ISP filtering will block P2P http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/1719

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 5th 2007 12:14AM]

Forogt woot.com's 1 million dollar bag o' crap

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 1st 2007 11:08PM]

Don't miss NPR's bit about cell phone ringtone legislation in NYC. And hang around for the 'funding credits' at the very end!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9210663

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2007 1:45AM]

Another good one is ADV buying out TokyoToSho. Was fooled for a bit... then remembered it was April Fools.

[Dahk Posted Apr 2nd 2007 12:32AM]

You Say "IKEA", We Say "iKia".

"UK office of Korean auto manufacturer makes fun of Swedish furniture."

http://cars.ign.com/articles/777/777169p1.html

[jonthebru Posted Apr 2nd 2007 1:55AM]

Sorry, but this grow your own viagra takes the cake, I read it aloud to my wife believing ti the whole time until the last paragraph.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article2411405.ece

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2007 2:39AM]

Telstra to block iPhone in Australia http://www.mactalk.com.au/

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2007 6:35AM]

so i took the inards out of one of those singing christmas cards two years ago and its been sitting around waiting for a chance at glory since then. my roomie hit upon the brilliant idea of dropping it down our female friends recessed-in-the-wall steam radiator (we're in college) while they were out to dinner. 9 hours later it was still going, but they knicked our boxers and froze them, locked their door behind them and holed up for the night. i think we're on top here though, we just have to do laundry, they have to listen to jingle bells while they sleep. o yeah, and it also took them 6 hours to find out it was us, and for the first 2 we had them convinced that someone had put it there last year on a timer to go off on april 1st.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2007 11:49PM]

I was fooled by Gmail Paper, I was!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2007 5:02PM]

http://www.twit.tv/gotcha

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2007 8:07PM]

Geekologie got fooled by ThinkGeek.
http://geekologie.com/2007/04/never_hit_your_snooze_button_e.php

And a note on ThinkGeek says that they'll actually be making the 8-Bit tie, due to demand. http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/hats-ties/9352/