Google’s Annual April Fools Products

Always fun — this year: Gmail Custom Time:

Ever wish you could go back in time and send that crucial email that could have changed everything — if only it hadn’t slipped your mind? Gmail can now help you with those missed deadlines, missed birthdays and missed opportunities.

See the full spoof at the Gmail product site.

Or Virgle Pioneer:

Earth has issues, and it’s time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.

And here’s one just for readers who work in cubicles — a job in the Google Copernicus Center:

The Google Copernicus Hosting Environment and Experiment in Search Engineering (G.C.H.E.E.S.E.) is a fully integrated research, development and technology facility at which Google will be conducting experiments in entropized information filtering, high-density high-delivery hosting (HiDeHiDeHo) and de-oxygenated cubicle dwelling. This center will provide a unique platform from which Google will leapfrog current terrestrial-based technologies and bring information access to new heights of utility.

Yes, airless cubes for you on the moon…

Apparently, there are more. Have fun!

Scot, K9JY

(Cross Posted at Cube Rules — nothing yet for ham radio operators…)

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