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OMG WIRELESS EXTENSION CORDS!!! LOL!!!
True ChAoS writes "Using the latest in microwave energy transmission technology, the Wireless Extension Cords (WECs) 'beam' power right where you need it. Broadcasting in the 7.2GHz range, the WECs will not interfere with wireless networks, phones, or Bluetooth components. Be sure to heed all the warnings in the instruction manual; the microwaves used are relatively safe, but you don't want to cook your computer (or coworkers) by mistake." ThinkGeek is also owned by OSTG.
GURLZ HAVE INVADED TACO'S BRAIN!!!
Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Nice to see the lameness filter is still normal.
Flying toasters sighted migrating south for the winter..
-- If at first you don't succeed, lie!
Bubs' Concession Stand has sold wireless extension cords for a long time.
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Now I can tranfer all of my My Little Pony MPGs from even further away! OMGOMGOMG i'M SO0OOO EXCITED XDXDXDXD 3
Now I can power my Rainbow Brite (tm) oven from across the room without a cord! I can't wait until the court order expires and I can tell all the girls at the elementary school!
I'm modding the article using the new mod options.
I mean, there's nothing in it about ponies!!! In fact it sounds more like news for nerds. =(
I wonder if I get like fifty of these and point them all at the guy next door that stole my toolbox if I could get ... um... his wife.
I remember back in the day when April Fools news stories were discreet and you had to spend a couple of seconds/minutes looking at them to see whether they were fake or not.
Bring back the old days!
Not to say April Fools day sucks, because everyone thinks they're a comedian.
Is it just me, or has slashdot completely missed the point? Didn't April fools used to be about SUBTLEY making up BELIEVEABLE stories to try and trick people?
This pink color scheme isn't even funny and adding "aprilfools" to the articles is just defeating the point.
April fools used to be about clever wit, not just being as stupid as possible.
At least think geek have the vaguely right idea, tho have perhaps got a bit overexcited and again missed the subtlety part.
Nothing new to see here folks.
Move along.
Could we fix the tags please. I love the April fools stories, but the tags sort of ruin it. I know they are made so we can search but why not use an anagram instead? Something like "Parol's foil", maybe even do a story on how awesome Parol's latest foil is for tin foil hats.
Tomorrow you can switch all the tags for April fools, but today we should make them so blindly obvious we don't need them pointing out to us.
Hopefully the editors will read this and sort it out.
I like muppets.
I hope that is just a phase. I'm sorry. I apologize for that horrible joke.
Pink hurts!!!111oneoneoneeleveneleven(10/9)
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No kidding!!!11onemillionfourtyeightthousandfivehund
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craziness with Aprils fools
Netcraft is dying- BSD Confirms It!
Study: In Korea, Only The Very Old Use Hanja
Ballmer to Develop! Develop! Develop! Develop! Develop! Develop! Develop! Develop! a new ad campaign
Script Kiddies considered respectable hackers
Putin: In Soviet Russia, April fool YOU!
"Hello 911? I just tried to toast some bread, and the toaster grew an arm and stabbed me in the face!"
Migrating south... for winter... in April?
Everyone knows toasters migrate north in April!
What do they teach in these schools?
Greenwich. Mean. Time.
Could you imagine the action shots that could be faked for this thing?
- Pointing the "transmitter" and "receiver" through a fish tank.
- "Cooking" co-workers through cubicle walls
- Powering my microwave with microwaves!
- Seeing how many metal surfaces you could bounce the microwaves off of and still power your Xbox.
- Turning on fluorescent lights in your neighbor's house.
*giggle*
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It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
If I get a girl and put her in between two of these things I can make that superherpmutantgirl I've aways wanted. Now all I need is the girl.
...damn.
Not African toasters, they could do it.
The problem with quotes on the internet, is that nobody bothers to check their veracity. -- Abraham Lincoln
This must be an April Fools posts, there's no typos!
I know it's April Fools, but this story is no joke.
I was on site fixing someone's DSL when the lady asked me if there was any solution to her problem.
What problems?, I ask.
All those cables that go into the computer box, she replies.
I tell her that wireless routers are available and that I could purchase one for her.
No, no, she tells me, I meant those big blacks ones that plug into the wall, they really limit my ability to move the computer around.
My jaw drops to the floor. I tell her that they haven't made much progress in the last few years on Wireless Power Cords, it's been a tough problem to crack.
I watch the wheels in her head turn and she tells me: Well, maybe in a few years they will have figured it out, just look at my cell phone, it doesn't have any wires.
Of course, I tell her, the best and the brightest are studying day and night.
Sure, consumer-grade wireless dozens-of-watts-or-more power transfer is too hazardous to be useful, but in certain industries this can be real.
A few years back, there was a project to use microwaves to transfer power from solar-power-collecting satellites to receiving antennas on earth.
RFID tags are a low-power version of power transfer, as were the crystal radio sets our great-great grandfathers used nearly a century ago.
In space, mirrors or lasers can send light to solar cells that are otherwise not illuminated.
As I said, niche market.
As an April Fools joke though, I got a chuckle out of it. Not as practical as EtherKiller, but what the heck.
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