The Grooviest April Fool’s Jokes of 2013
Virgin America’s Glass-bottomed Plane Virgin has successfully come up with a way to make airplane flights even more terrifying. This plane features in-flight verti-go-go.
Toshiba Announces Next “Next-Generation” Console Watch out Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft. Toshiba is packing serious hardware. groovyPost’s Miracle Fix For Every Computer Problem Possible 12 core 3.5 Ghz Processors 8192 MB GDDR5 RAM Graphics Card 809.3b Infrared Motion Detection 1080p Full HD 7.1 Channel Surround Sound 5 Stereo Mini Jacks 8 HDMI Ports AC Power Our very own secret technique for fixing every computer problem in 1 simple step.
Twitter Launching New Pay-For-Vowels Service In an effort to save on character space, Twitter is changing up their service and making vowels only usable for accounts that pay a $5 monthly fee.
Reddit Buys Team Fortress 2 Reddit claimed to have purchase TF2 and completely revamped the site to add in hats and other nonsense items. And likewise Team Fortress 2 posted a comment about buying Reddit, it said: “In celebration of our Reddit purchase, we’re going to add some new Reddit-themed items to the game.”
Reddit Blog PostTeam Fortress Blog Post
Needless to say, this resulted in chaos across the social media website for the entire day.
Netflix’s Exaggerated Categories and New Episodes of Firefly If you checked Netflix yesterday you might have noticed some interesting titles and categories on the show line-up. But, pranking that Firefly had new episodes might have been taking it too far.
Obama Looks to Crowd-Funding to Pay Off the National Debt Following the success of Kickstarter and IndieGoGo, why not use crowd-sourced funding to pay off the National Debt?
Newegg Retro ShellShockers Newegg’s daily shell shocker deals featured the pinnacle of modern computer technology.
The Pirate Bay changes name to The Freedom Bay and moves to the U.S. The Pirate Bay was reported to be changing up its act and offering Freedom instead of Piracy.
Nokia Smart-Microwaves “Nokia has a proven track record and extensive IPR in working with microwave radios, so for us this was a logical next step.”
Robotic’s Sphero – Peacekeeper Edition iFixit Rates an Orange with the Lowest Repairability Score of All Time “It took us ten steps, but we finally managed to penetrate the impenetrable.”
True & Co’s iPhone Controlled Push-up Bra With three different settings depending on the occasion. On a first date? Set it to maximum cleavage mode.
Sony Releases Tech Products for Pets
From the GooglePlex
Google really took the lead in this year’s April Fool’s jokes. There’s so many from the big G that we put them all in a single section here at the bottom.
Google LevityGmail BlueGoogle NoseYouTube Picking a Winner and Shutting DownYouTube Award NominationsTreasure Maps
Google Wallet Mobile ATM Deposit cash on the go with this handy little USB utility.
Google+ Photo Emoticons Incase it’s unclear what emotion you’re showing in a photo, now you can add an emoticon to really bring out your inner feelings.
That sums up the best of the 2013 list. If there’s a great one that you think we missed, please link to it in the comment section below! “People reschedule their birthday parties, just to attend my meetings.” “HR Memo is now, The New Hotness” Classic!
