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    April Fool's Day hoaxes round up

    Wikipedia has a round-up of April Fool's Day hoaxes. Among our favourites are The Economist's announcement of plans to genetically engineer pet dragons; and the DivX Head Up Display (XHUD) for projecting DivX videos onto a car's front windscreen.

    Perhaps best of all, and a bargain at just £189.99, is the 2GB USB memory stick on gadget site IWOOT - for downloading your brain's memory.

    More in this HEXUS.headline.

    Oh, and if you've got any April Fool's favourites of your own, why not tell us about them here?

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    I quite liked Chip and SING: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...113253,00.html

    And then there's the ever reliable BMW: http://www.slowcameras.com/bmwuk/slowcamera/landing/
    "Well, there was your Uncle Tiberius who died wrapped in cabbage leaves but we assumed that was a freak accident."

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    I'd only need 128Mb, I reckon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GingaNinja
    I'd only need 128Mb, I reckon.
    id be fine with a Floppy disk
    Quote Originally Posted by Noni
    What the hell does "WTH" mean

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    Quote Originally Posted by GingaNinja
    I'd only need 128Mb, I reckon.
    ROFL!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaine (AoD)
    id be fine with a Floppy disk
    Snort!

    Got me again!



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    Quote Originally Posted by mike_w
    Missed that one - it's a cracker!

    Quote Originally Posted by mike_w
    And then there's the ever reliable BMW: http://www.slowcameras.com/bmwuk/slowcamera/landing/
    What, you mean that's a hoax?


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    2 articles I found on Tom's Hardware:

    Newegg buying out Dell!!: http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/04/01/newegg_to_buy_dell/

    IEEE abandoning all wireless technologies: http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/04/01/ieee_802/

    Funny stuff, with the second being more subtle and clever I think.

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    just reading that ^^ made me laugh, didn't even nee to read the hoaxes

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    Google Romance was the crazy Google guys effort this year. Not quite up to the new offices on the moon or the Pidgeon Rank ones of previous years.
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