The pranks of the April fish: Space rops, a Google Snake and a pickle burger

Tower your radar skepticism thoroughly. It's April Fool's Day and companies ranging from Google to ThinkGeek are looking to pack you with weird jokes and barely believable.

We browse the internet for the funniest and weirdest jokes, whether it's a talking tulip or a koala with leopard spots.

The Google Maps app is transformed into an old-fashioned video game with the addition of a "Play Snake" feature. Tap the snake icon, tap play and choose from a selection of destinations including San Fracisco, Tokyo and Cairo. It allows you to control a red double decker bus, a tram or any other mode of transport adapted to the city. You must then pass and pick up passengers. It's a fun retro entertainment.

Google says that the interactive joke will remain online for about a week, but you can go to a special Google Maps Snake website to play once the stuffing of the application is complete.

Google has also released a video introducing Screen Cleaner in the Files application, a fake feature meant to magically clean the outside of your phone from the inside.

Google Tulip

Google Netherlands has offered a very serious video to Google Tulip, a new way to talk to the famous flower (and make it talk). "Thanks to the remarkable progress of artificial intelligence, Google Assistant on phones and Google Home are now able to understand tulips, allowing translation between Tulipish and dozens of human languages," said Google.

It turns out that tulips are not great interlocutors.

SodaStreamMe recruits an astronaut

NASA's retired astronaut, Scott Kelly, is partnering with SodaStream to introduce SodaStreamMe, a carbon-powered pop machine. Advertising plays on the difficulty that astronauts experience in ingesting carbon dioxide. There is a reason why astronauts do not chug root beer into orbit.

ThinkGeek unveils Oddball products

Geeky hardware retailer, ThinkGeek, is infamous for its fake April products, some of which are becoming real. For 2019, ThinkGeek went crazy with a range including a Banksy toaster engraving the artist's impressions on bread, a Thor Mighty Mjolnir mailbox, a Bean Bag base (yes, she's attached to your buttocks ) and a Captain Marvel Universal Pager.

HelloFresh Unicorn Box

The HelloFresh meal delivery service encourages you to "eat like a mythical creature with a box full of rainbows, smiles and joy on the farm" at your door. "The Unicorn glitter box meal kit from the company has a magical taste – it's full of colorful icing, gummy candies and, of course, rainbow nuggets." Just do not ask if it's healthy.

John Legere, of T-Mobile, started the match with the April Fool with the unveiling of the phone booth on Friday. The pink booths are supposed to be soundproof and designed to help mobile phone users hold a private conversation on a busy urban street. A bit like a cone of modern silence.

On April 1, T-Mobile continued the joke by presenting the Mobile EditionE (MEE), even more absurd, a portable version of the largest stand.

The language learning application Duolingo knows that it is too easy to dismiss his daily practice notifications. That's why, for the April Fool's Day, it deploys Push, a much more extensive reminder system. Push involves a Duolingo giant owl mascot who follows you and records his encouragement or disappointment, according to your preferences.

Contiki goes Dogtiki

Many of the April fish jokes are focused on providing dog service versions for dogs. Travel specialists, Contiki has unveiled a particularly interesting interpretation of this kind with Dogtiki, a coach trip for dogs.

"He can now travel alone with dogs his age, experience the world, have local sniffles, taste the food of different cultures and come back with so many friends," says a dog owner enthusiastic. The best parties involve the tour guide trying to get puppies to interact on vacation.

Litter-Robot cat sheet

The automatic litter box manufacturer, Litter-Robot, is naturally turned to the feline side for its timely joke. Cat leaf is a high-tech sheet of paper designed to lure your cat to sleep on it. The fake advertisement is full of meaningless fashionable words and cute cats, a winning combination.

Shutterstock plans a physical library

Shutterstock celebrates April 1st by moving away from its digital heritage and promising to open a huge library of bricks and mortar full of physical images of socked tube and ostrich teddy bears. "The librarians will be replaced by the first robot of their type, Cyanotypes, which will quickly search through the vast catalog of maps to help customers directly access the image, video or music track of their choice," says Shutterstock.

Honda Pastport remembers the 90s

The Honda Pastport looks like a normal SUV on the outside, but the interior is another story. The Honda joke boasts the virtues of the 1990s interior, which includes a digital clock, a CD cassette converter, a pager holder and a dial modem in the glove box. That's all that and a bag of chips.

Lockheed Martin perfume bottles of space

What does space feel like? Lockheed Martin bottled the smell of the cosmos for the April Fool and called Vector. The company describes this smell as "having a deep metallic base" with a feeling of cleanliness and sterility "counterbalanced by a subtle but seductive shade of fire that burns like a vapor in the atmosphere". I've sniffed a sample, and that's exactly what it smells like.

Lockheed Martin actually offers a limited series of Vector, designed to match the description of the smell of space by a true astronaut.

Koalas with leopard spots

Tourism Australia offered a compelling reason to book a trip to the mainland when it published the photo of an adorable koala rocked by leopard spots. "We do not yet know why only some women are endowed with such an incredible fashion sense, but we are certain that the month of April is the envy of his friends," wrote the tourism group.

Mr Potato Head loses his job

Kids these days are just not in the potatoes. Hasbro shot his iconic toy, Mr. Potato Head, on April 1, and replaced it with a friendly alternative for hipsters: Mr. Avo Head, a bearded lawyer.

University of Winterrun

Australian Course Directory Course has launched one of the most elaborate April Fool's sites with the introduction of Winterrun University, a venue for Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings fans to learn how to ride dragons. and to become jesters. The course researcher works like a book Choose your own adventure.

McPickle Burger

In the United States, fast food giant McDonald's joked by saying shake dipping sauces, McDonald's Australia won the day with the McPickle Burger 100% pickles. Pickle fans were thrilled by the prospect of a brackish burger.

Logitech renames the wireless mouse

In one of the most sensible jokes of the day, Logitech decided that "wireless mouse" was not a pretty accurate name for the computer's device. Instead, it goes with "hamster", since wireless mice do not have "tail".

We'll update this article as April Fool's Day jokes come out, so come back here for the latest developments.