April Fools Round-Up, Top Pranks from the Web

Google lead the way in April Fool’s day this year, but they weren’t the only ones to come up with clever jokes. Check out our list of the funniest pranks.

We made it through yet another year of April Fool’s pranks. While not everyone willingly participated, there more than enough jokes to go around and plenty of tom-foolery. Below we’ve compiled some of the funniest and most sophisticated April Fool’s pranks that we could find on the internet.

The Grooviest April Fool’s Jokes of 2013

Virgin America’s Glass-bottomed Plane

Virgin has successfully come up with a way to make airplane flights even more terrifying. This plane features in-flight verti-go-go.

Toshiba Announces Next “Next-Generation” Console

Watch out Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft. Toshiba is packing serious hardware.

Technical Specs:

12 core 3.5 Ghz Processors
8192 MB GDDR5 RAM Graphics Card
809.3b Infrared Motion Detection
1080p Full HD
7.1 Channel Surround Sound
5 Stereo Mini Jacks
8 HDMI Ports
AC Power

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Twitter Launching New Pay-For-Vowels Service

In an effort to save on character space, Twitter is changing up their service and making vowels only usable for accounts that pay a $5 monthly fee.

Reddit Buys Team Fortress 2

Reddit claimed to have purchase TF2 and completely revamped the site to add in hats and other nonsense items. And likewise Team Fortress 2 posted a comment about buying Reddit, it said: “In celebration of our Reddit purchase, we’re going to add some new Reddit-themed items to the game.”

• Reddit Blog Post
• Team Fortress Blog Post

Needless to say, this resulted in chaos across the social media website for the entire day.

Netflix’s Exaggerated Categories and New Episodes of Firefly

If you checked Netflix yesterday you might have noticed some interesting titles and categories on the show line-up. But, pranking that Firefly had new episodes might have been taking it too far.

Obama Looks to Crowd-Funding to Pay Off the National Debt

Following the success of Kickstarter and IndieGoGo, why not use crowd-sourced funding to pay off the National Debt?

Newegg Retro ShellShockers

Newegg’s daily shellshocker deals featured the pinnacle of modern computer technology.

The Pirate Bay changes name to The Freedom Bay and moves to the U.S.

The Pirate Bay was reported to be changing up its act and offering Freedom instead of Piracy.

Nokia Smart-Microwaves

“Nokia has a proven track record and extensive IPR in working with microwave radios, so for us this was a logical next step.”

Robotic’s Sphero –  Peacekeeper Edition

iFixit Rates an Orange with the Lowest Repairability Score of All Time

“It took us ten steps, but we finally managed to penetrate the impenetrable.”

True & Co’s iPhone Controlled Push-up Bra

With three different settings depending on the occasion. On a first date? Set it to maximum cleavage mode.

Sony Releases Tech Products for Pets

From the GooglePlex

Google really took the lead in this year’s April Fool’s jokes. There’s so many from the big G that we put them all in a single section here at the bottom.

• Google Levity
• Gmail Blue
• Google Nose
• YouTube Picking a Winner and Shutting Down
• YouTube Award Nominations
• Treasure Maps

Google Wallet Mobile ATM

Deposit cash on the go with this handy little USB utility.

Google+ Photo Emoticons

Incase its unclear what emotion you’re showing in a photo, now you can add an emoticon to really bring out your inner feelings.

That sums up the best of the 2013 list. If there’s a great one that you think we missed, please link to it in the comment section below!