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with today's technology news it's hard to tell the fact from the fool I'm Bridget Carey and this is your scene at update on April Fool's Day every technology company wants to seem fun and clever by announcing fake news Google tends to be the king clown with several joke products but these fake announcements fall flat when today's technology is so experimental and bizarre the real products are not too different from the gags so to demonstrate let's play a game of fact or fool I'll give you a recent tech news announcement and you'll have to guess if it's real or an April Fool's hoax this week at the New York Auto Show Honda introduced the 2016 HRVs LF selfie edition there are cameras in the visor and - to share your selfie behind the wheel so is it factored full well this one is a fool but not too far from being fact hurts rental cars have been under fire for installing cameras inside the navigation device Hertz installed the cameras in case you wanted to have a video chat with customer service do we really need that among the many apps being created for the upcoming Apple watch the New York Times announced it will have a news alert app with editors staffed around the clock to craft one-sentence stories for the small screen factor fool one sentence journalism for your wrist is a fact you can now make Facebook pages just for photos of your baby since baby photos are taking over Facebook the social network launched a new tool to put all the photos of your precious little drill monster in one place and people can subscribe to follow Facebook baby scrapbook is a fact rolling out now in the u.s. HTC has introduced a new wearable a smart sock it comes with GPS pairs with both left and right feet and has a small screen on the top as your interface that of course makes it hard to wash this is a fool but a fail of a fool because smart socks in doing this to give you feedback on your running technique texting while walking can be dangerous but Volvo and Japan created airbags for smartphone users to protect against dangerous collisions yes Volvo is a fool but they're more foolish products on Kickstarter for people that run into things while texting the flick case has a mirror so the camera can record straight ahead and the app lets you text while also viewing a video feed of what's in front of you there's a new Angry Birds spin-off game this time the feather flock is running a farm and they're armed with guns you can personalize their outfits just like in the sims I'm sure people would love to play it but it is a fool and for the tinder generation rogue who has a new channel for online dating it's called roku rendezvous so you can find a date that shares your same streaming tastes it is a pool but there was once an app called yolk that matched you based on your Netflix profiles the couple that streams together stays together that's your tech news update no foolin from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey