The best of the worst April Fools’ Day jokes

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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

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