April Fools’ Day 2017: OnePlus Dash Energy drink, Nvidia GeForce GTX G-Assist, Google Play for Pets and more


OnePlus Dash Energy Drink

It is that time of the year, when even the tech world goes overboard with April Fools’ Day pranks. Every year geniuses at top tech companies, thanks to their creative juices, come up with the coolest and weirdest ideas and innovations. Let’s us dive in and see what the great minds have for us this year!

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OnePlus has introduced Dash Energy Drink that goes on sale in London and India today through its Experience Stores. “Dash Energy is a limited-edition energy drink that unlocks a person’s hidden potential to limit their sleep cycles to half an hour a day, and arms human’s in their fight against sleep, says the company. Check out the hilarious specs sheet:

est Consumed By 03/2018 Servings per Container: 1
Calories: 0 cal
Total Fat: 0 g
Saturated Fat: 0 g
Trans Fat: 0 g
Cholesterol: 0 mg
Sodium: 95 mg
Total Carbohydrate: 0 g
Dietary Fiber: 0 g
Sugar: 0 g
Protein: 0 g
Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron: 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%

Google Chromebook Cardboard

Each of Google’s division has unique products for April fool’s day this year. Its Chromebook division has introduced mobile accessories for Chromebook that includes Chromebook Groupie Stick, a Chromebook-sized selfie stick, Chromebook Cardboard, so you can turn any large appliance or pizza box into your own Cardboard device, and Chromebook Workout Armband with Giant media buttons.

Google’s Haptic Helpers for VR uses a modest set of everyday tools to simulate more than 10,000 unique experiences, all from the comfort of your own home. Smell the roses. Listen to the ocean. Feel a fluffy dog. Signup for beta at vr.google.com/haptichelpers.

Google Gnome

Google Gnome is a voice-activated, hands-free tool designed to make backyard living effortless.

“You can even use Gnome’s proprietary high-intensity lasers to trim your hedges into whatever shape your heart desires. The only thing that can fence in Google Gnome is the literal fence surrounding your yard,” says Google.

Click Ms. PAC-Maps button at the bottom left on desktop, Android or iOS version of Maps to play the game. You can Sign in to save your top score on the leaderboard and share with friends. Google added Pac-Man in Maps and Ingress back in 2015 for April Fools’ 2015.

Google Maps Mars

Google Mars Datacenter – “Our Mars exploration started as a 20% project with the Google Planets team, which mapped Mars and other bodies in space and found a suitable location in Gale Crater, near the landing site of NASA’s Curiosity rover,” says Google.

Google Play for Pets with a new category of games, apps and training tools to keep your pet stimulated. “With Google Play for Pets, your furry friends can keep busy with thousands of games and apps throughout the day,” says Google.

Check out the hilarious changelog

  • New collections of games, apps and training tools your pets will love
  • 5-Paw rating system 🐾
  • Notifications when your pet has logged in
  • Multiplayer mode for nose-to-nose competition
  • Virtual Reality games to simulate real play

LineageOS Mascot

LineageOS has got a new Octopus mascot. It also said that over the next week, VoLTE will be rolling out to all devices, regardless of hardware support. It has also introduced AI-powered revolutionary product called Br0zip. Br0zipperEngine, is a powerful AI that powers Br0Zip. Given any .zip ROM or .img kernel of any device (yeah – any device) it’ll be able to generate a properly working ROM.

“Alongside this, WiFi and mobile data (subject to signal strength), will be now using the experimental “Aqua” protocol, so it’s super-duper fast! Bear in mind this feature will only work underwater,” said the company.

Nvidia GeForce GTX G-Assist takes advantage of cutting-edge NVIDIA artificial intelligence to bring you the next revolution in gaming.

Eliminate AFKs. Overcome the toughest boss battles. Monitor and maintain your peak gaming performance. Learn from the only gamer to play over 10,080 games. Now, you can do it all with G-Assist’s powerful GeForce-Assisted Gaming technologies,” says NVIDIA.

Virgin Atlantic’s new Dreambird 1417 with new patented technology – flapology – to create the world’s first aircraft with flappable wings. “The aircraft has been inspired by the innovative engineering of a bird in flight and its flapping wing. It boasts wings that bend and flex to create a flapping motion that not only propels the aircraft forward but generates its own power to meet every electronic need onboard,” says Virgin Atlantic.


Author: Srivatsan Sridhar

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