Comments on: Our April Fools jokes turn into real products

Two ideas we thought were absurd enough to put out as April Fools' Day jokes last year are now turning into real products and services.

[dascha1]

You guys need to be careful on your wacky ideas. I, for one, could take offense to the 2nd one since I'm adopted. Maybe you could instead turn it around to let folks see where Genetics goes on down the line, in terms of birth data, mapping and recognition, and the Family Tree for All without the problem of contacting people who were involved in the real creation process. But that too would be a crazy idea, wouldn't it?

[Remo_Williams]

You could take offense, of course, but then you'd have much larger issues with mental health than c|net could reasonably address.

-R

[WesCoughlin]

What are you talking about? How do you even function as a living human if this article upsets you?

[gallowsthief]

Oh please dascha1 are you being serious??! Surely your missing a far bigger issue here?? Im talking rights of privacy - those poor rats go out for a nice evening meal and suddenly find themselves having their recreational time being logged online. I mean, cant a rodent just go out for a nice meal once in a while?

[dude7895]

Please don't reproduce.

[Get_Bent]

You can't please all of the people all of the time....

[cousintroy]

Really...I am tolerant to a lot of things and consider others when discussing things but I don't see how #2 can be the least offensive.

[notsatch]

My morning #2 is usually pretty offensive...

[earth79]

ROFLMAO! epic win.

[Josh.Lowensohn]

Don't feed the trolls folks. Their hunger is insatiable.

[CyberWoLfman]

And their name is legion! Mu-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

(Surprised you didn't say that, yourself.)

It's why I don't have a forum on my personal site, and my e-mail address on it is a riddle. ;-)

Also have a 4,096 bit encryption key for e-mails, but . . . most people are essentially sheeple and don't care enough about their privacy anymore to encrypt their e-mails.

[Alhan_Keser]

Have you seen the ridiculous Android App that is in beta? "android playa"

[cioob]

wrapping a belt with electronics around a unborn? o_O? that cant be healthy at all..o.o.. bluetooth transmissions?..
sounds like a big no-no to me.

[iff2mastamatt]

I concur.

[pedaah]

Oh the Humanity, some ideas should just be .....

left unsaid

[camstone-fox]

I find it interesting that NY City government took the time to set up a "Rat Information Portal" (NYC:RIP) with a wait screen that uses an animated rat for their "waiting" animation.

Wait... it's a rat portal that you click on with your mouse... pretty cheesey, no?

[willdryden]

How about a new April fool joke about a 1 pound 100 kWh battery for $100. I bet they can't do that in a year and a half. If they do, the electric car will take over.

[seespottype]

Lessons Learned:

1. Assign 1 intern task of generating patent applications for every new idea found in article, joke, or commentary.
2. Keep very quiet about the patents.
3. Wait for a company to develop product on idea.
4. Wait for an industry to be built around idea.
5. Now sue like crazy.
6. Retire, fat & happy.

[iff2mastamatt]

Dude, no one cares about patents anymore. Even China made a bootleg Disneyland!

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=1678