Gadgetory

every year on April Fool's Day the tech world braces itself for another round of fake products and stupid PR stunts Amazon's Alexa for pets t-mobile's connected onesie who lose eight seconds streaming service but what about the tech ideas so stupid that they kind of actually work the products and services that we thought would totally fake until they weren't first up has to be Kubo the headless robotic cat cushion designed to bring companionship to kind of odd people but it's not just weird and wonderful products from Japan when Google announced Project loon in 2013 everyone thought the search company had gone a little batty but turns out the plan to deliver internet access with giant floating balloons was no joke and four years later it was connecting Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria in fact Google loves launching new services that look fake after all Gmail was launched just a few hours before April first in 2004 when Amazon first launched its grocery ordering - buttons they looked like a prank but now you can buy as much toilet paper as you want without having to haul it out of a store like you're preparing for the buck apocalypse and while duolingo is a Moche language course was fake it's clean tutorials are the real deal and then there are the products that probably just shouldn't be Pizza Hut has its Pizza ordering shoes Tostitos has its breathalyzer bag and Domino's had B Pizza Delivery robot what about the iPhone connected nose hair trimmer or Spartans silver lined underwear because nothing protects your masculinity from cell phone radiation and fourth wave feminism like a Faraday cage around your junk but our absolute favorites Elon Musk's foreign company flames are definitely real definitely flame throwing and definitely a way to mess up your curtains I'm Claire Riley and for more