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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.

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  1. OMG!!! by iced_773 · · Score: 3, Insightful


    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.

  2. This also just in.. by jamesjw · · Score: 5, Funny

    Flying toasters sighted migrating south for the winter..

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  3. Old technology by Rojo^ · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bubs' Concession Stand has sold wireless extension cords for a long time.

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    1. Re:Old technology by mesach · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Nikola Tesla tested this out even longer ago. I believe he has prior art.

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  4. OMGz LOL by bmecoli · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I can tranfer all of my My Little Pony MPGs from even further away! OMGOMGOMG i'M SO0OOO EXCITED XDXDXDXD 3

  5. Awesome! by Hamster+Lover · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  6. Sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  7. Missing the point by AC-x · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Missing the point by Atzanteol · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm just curious, do you look like this too? Or just have the up-tight anal personality he has?

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  8. Tesla did it! by cyber_rigger · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nothing new to see here folks.

    Move along.

  9. tags by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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  10. Re:OMG! by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pink hurts!!!111oneoneoneeleveneleven(10/9)

    No kidding!!!11onemillionfourtyeightthousandfivehundr edseventyfiveinbinary

  11. Yeah, right... by Kelson · · Score: 3, Informative

    Migrating south... for winter... in April?

    Everyone knows toasters migrate north in April!

    What do they teach in these schools?

  12. Three words: by Kelson · · Score: 4, Informative

    Greenwich. Mean. Time.

  13. OMG, LINUX TORVALDS IS SO CUTE!@!@#!@#)* by merc · · Score: 3, Funny


    *giggle*

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  14. April Fools by mageofchrisz · · Score: 3, Funny

    This must be an April Fools posts, there's no typos!

  15. Re:That would be European toasters. by AJWM · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, yes. But the African toaster is nonmigratory.

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  16. I was actually asked this in real life. by affliction · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.