Disrupting keyboard entry

[Slowhands]

Google Tap looks like a dramatically disruptive technology that could lead to all kinds of spinoff applications, including esoteric stuff like investigating motor and sensory attention functions in the brain. It's cool that it brings back Morse code. Anyone experienced this yet?

https://mail.google.com/mail/help/promos/tap/index.html

[dalyduo]

Honest to god thought this was a highly produced April Fool's prank. Perhaps it will be useful for Navy Seals or other stealthy law enforcement folks but damned if I can see what the use or value of it is? Since voice recognition already exists so you can create and send E-mails and text messages with your voice already... do we really need a system to send texts and E-mails in morse code while in meetings or classes? This has got to be a prank.

[Slowhands]

This message confirms I've been had. And publicly too, dammit!

"Oops! Gmail Tap is a bit too popular right now. We suggest you try downloading it again next year."

[Redneck]

My favorite was .. Google TiSP
Google TiSP (short for Toilet Internet Service Provider) was a fictitious free broadband service supposedly released by Google. This service would make use of a standard toilet and sewage lines to provide free Internet connectivity at a speed of 8 Mbit/s (2 Mbit/s upload) (or up to 32 Mbit/s with a paid plan). The user would drop a weighted end of a long, Google-supplied fiber-optic cable in their toilet and flush it. Around 60 minutes later, the end would be recovered and connected to the Internet by a "Plumbing Hardware Dispatcher (PHD)". The user would then connect their end to a Google-supplied wireless router and run the Google-supplied installation media on a Windows XP or Windows Vista computer ("Mac and Linux support coming soon"). Alternatively, a user could request a professional installation, in which Google would deploy nanobots through the plumbing to complete the process. The free service would be supported by "discreet DNA sequencing" of "personal bodily output" to display online ads that relate to culinary preferences and personal health. Google also referenced the diet coke-and-Mentos reaction in their FAQ: "If you're still experiencing problems, drop eight mints into the bowl and add a two-liter bottle of diet soda."

That one "lived" for a year or more...

[oldredracer]

dah dah dah dit dit dit dah dah dah

[Redneck]

LOL or LMAO

[dalyduo]

Check out these spy photos from Road & Track of the new four door Mustang.

And while you're at it, put your oars in the water with this new Mini Cooper Yachtsman: Mini announced it would debut this amphibious vehicle at the New York Auto Show. Features include a body-colored exhaust snorkel, emergency sail, waterproof upholstery with seat-cushion flotation devices, a Marine Chronometer for celestial navigation, room to sleep two, a host of fishing gear, a pirate flag, and an eyepatch.

[cdh]

That's a good one, more of them here, some funny stuff

This was my fave Mini 4/1 joke though...only 2,480 years to complete! Fun for the entire family!

[GregS]

cant believe the wise harsha was felled by an obvious 4/1 joke!!!

they gave u several clues that it was an 4/1 joke too

[Slowhands]

Originally Posted by GregS

cant believe the wise harsha was felled by an obvious 4/1 joke!!!

they gave u several clues that it was an 4/1 joke too

I claim a low blow from Google-- it was on my Gmail login page on Monday 4/2-- that's the first I saw it. All shields were down. I was in that innocent, early morning frame of mind (ya don't have to get up that early in the morning to get me! ) and just wanted to believe (I love really unconventional new stuff!). When I looked at it again the next day, the clues were obvious, as were the actors in the vid. Oh well.

[Slowhands]

Originally Posted by cdh

This was my fave Mini 4/1 joke though...only 2,480 years to complete! Fun for the entire family!

Nice find, cdh. That's my favorite too, of all the 4/1 spoofs. Almost as plausible as any kit you could find in Popular Mechanics!

[cdh]

Except for the error of part/week v part/month. Per week cuts completion time to a realistic 47.6 years.

[dalyduo]

Thought the Yachtsman was a photoshop... Turns out they actually built the thing and brought it to the NY Auto Show.