A Pokemon Master job at Google, a glove that works with new HTC M8 and an old Nokia 3310 relaunch with 41 megapixel pure view camera or a selfiebot tech world was buzzing with innovations on the first day of this month. And why not when that day is 1st April and every tech giant is competing to be the best prankster of 2014.
The webmaster Google began the April 1st preparation early on Monday when it announced a new Pokemon master job offer for Google Maps. Although it sounded silly most fell for it considering Google is always up for crazy stuff.
Other Google site Gmail and Youtube had their share of April fools pranks with Gmail selfie and sharable selfie features that tricked many users.
Google was not the only one out to poke fun this year Nokia, Samsung, HTC and many other technology companies join the party. One of the best pranks of this year came from Nokia when the mobile maker announced that they are relaunching their decade old model 3310.
The new model 3310 was said to have pure view camera, windows 8 and 41 MP rear view camera. Of course it was a joke but it brought back the memory of Nokia’s golden era.
Taiwanese mobile maker HTC attempted another master prank by releasing pictures of a glove that work with their latest flagship HTC One M8. In the time when every company is coming with new set of wearables every now and then HTC totally got many with catchy lines and even so catchy picture
“The wearable revolution starts today: the all new HTC Gluuv”
Samsung also tried similar joke as HTC with the picture of Galaxy S5 merged with a pair of glove but it wasn’t as convincing as HTC Gluuuv.
Microsoft took this opportunity to take on rival Google and announced Bing Dooglz with pet translator to poke fun at Google Glass. Twitter took this opportunity to announced a wearable device named as “Twitter Helmet” that lets users tweet through a pecking motion.
Orbotix, the innovators of Sphero announced this cute little gadget SelfieBot, an app-controlled robot that flies with the user and help them capture a perfect selfie every time. Take that selfie lovers this could be a reality someday.
