News: The Best of This Year's April Fool's Day Pranks on the Internet

The Best of This Year's April Fool's Day Pranks on the Internet

You've seen the Samsung Fingers and the Emoji Translator, and I know you spent a good part of the day catching Pokémon, but now that April Fool's Day is officially upon us, the flood of gags has reached a tipping point. Here's the best of what we've seen today.

Auto Awesome Photobombs

Google's Auto Awesome feature transforms your run-of-the-mill pictures and adds a little "awesome" to them—snow during the holidays, hearts during Valentine's Day...you get the picture. But today's Auto Awesome may just be the best of all: Auto Awesome Photobombs, featuring none other than the Hoff himself.

These stills and gifs will be automatically generated for new photos uploaded or backed up to Google+. Take a few, and post your Auto Awesomes in the comments below.

SwiftKey Flow Hard

I love my SwiftKey, so I'm pretty excited about this one. Why limit our swiping to tiny, on-screen keyboards. I for one am ready to be 257% more efficient while at my desk.

Control Reddit with Your Head

A revolutionary new way to browse and vote (upnods and frownvotes) has been introduced on Reddit—Headdit.

Activate your webcam, and never worry about your pesky keyboard and mouse again.

Cats You May Know

Members of the social-professional networking service LinkedIn are undoubtedly familiar with the "People You May Know" emails, but today, your network will grow by leaps and bounds with "Cats You May Know".

Introducing shuberX

Naturally, TOMS Shoes and Uber have joined forces to create shuberX—"Great for the environment, even better for your calves."

"What better way to activate our riders than to literally, physically activate them." Yup, makes sense to me.

More Wearables

Well, Samsung may have done it first, but HTC went slightly more retro for it's connect wearable glove, the HTC Gluuv (Beta).

A wearable add-on to their very real HTC One M8, the Gluuz comes complete with Social Fingerz, an 87.2 megapixel camera, HTC HI5, and NoMOUS technology.

But we're not done yet. "Grasp, and the future is now." Oooookay....

Let's not forget about head gear—Lenovo has us covered (pun very much intended):

Stick around as we continue to update with the best of the worst on the internet today...

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