That’s it. Uncle. We’re done. No more individual April Fools’ Day posts. So here is where you can find the best of the worst. There’s no such thing as a good April Fools’ Day post in this business. But there are some that at least make us smile.
- Gotta catch ’em all: Google’s 2014 April Fools pranks begin with the Google Maps Pokémon Challenge
- SwiftKey Flow Hard brings swiping to your desktop
- Google+ Photos introduces Auto Awesome Photobombs, with David Hasselhoff!
- Flexible display, multiple touch points, and 5G connectivity — it’s the Samsung Fingers
- HTC follows Samsung for April Fools’ joke, releases wearable for your hand
- Gmail Shelfie: share your selfie as your friend’s Gmail theme
- Nest partners with Virgin Group for in-flight personal climate control
- Gotta catch ’em all: Google’s 2014 April Fools pranks begin with the Google Maps Pokémon Challenge
- HERE Papyrus takes mapping to a whole new, paper, level
- Apple buys iFixit
- Toshiba’s DiGiT smart glove
- Canadian carrier Fido introduces new mascot
- Opera invents ‘Tap to Teleport’ ad unit (groan)
- The ‘Cats by Opera’ browser project (double groan)
- The Nokia 3310 to get a Windows Phone refresh, but only if you dream hard enough
- Bing.com sings out for April 1
- Lenovo introduces ‘Head mode’
- LinkedIn CMYK — Cats You May Know
- Announcing Sony Power Food: Fuel Yourself And Your Gadgets
- Launching Samsung’s Fli-Fy Pigeons
- Google Fiber introduces Coffee-to-the-Home
- Google Enterprise for Business Dogs
- Otterbox buys naming rights to Colorado (not really funny)
- Google’s Software Dogengieer application
- Google Fiber Coffee to the Home
Chromecast: A new era of squirrel entertainment
Hulu: In the Kitchen with Hannibal
Lenovo’s vintage drop tests
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