April Fools’ Day 2016: The best stories from around the web

Today is the day to be cautious when sharing exciting new stories from your social media feeds, if you don’t want to be labelled the fool this April.

April Fools’ Day has well and truly taken the internet by storm with big companies like Samsung, Sony, Barclays and Ford all getting involved. Expect plenty of pranks for the 2016 April Fools’ Day too as it’s fast becoming an annual online tradition for tech companies.

So if you want a laugh, or want to separate the real from the ridiculous, check below. We’ve compiled all the tech related April Fool’s Day stories that have been unleashed on the world today so you don’t have to look elsewhere.

Get ready for a good laugh, with plenty of pranks to share and fool others with. Check below for all the best pranks of the day and be sure to keep coming back as we’ll be updating throughout the day as more get unleashed.

Samsung smart trousers

Imagine a pair of trousers with Wi-Fly that can intelligently alert you to a low fly via your smartphone. Or pressure sensors that get you moving after detecting you’ve been sitting too long. How about a system that detects when your waist tension is too tight and locking the fridge? The Samsung Internet of Trousers can do all that and will even track heart rate and blood pressure to remind you to keep your trousers on when things get hot and heavy but you’ve set them to help you stay in control.

Honda

Emoji number plates

Honda has chosen today to show off a world first, the emoji number plate. This is aimed at its younger buyers who want to express more than just numbers and letters on the front of their car can offer.

The Honda Civic Type-R is shown with the new plates. Honda is in talks with the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency with plans to have these motive plates on the roads by 2017. Perhaps in time for next April Fools’ day?

Sony

The Proton Pack

Remember the Proton Pack from The Ghostbusters films? Sony has made one.

Sony says: “Superconducting temperatures are maintained by a liquid helium reservoir, and an active cryocooler ensures that operational time vastly exceeds that available from a cryogen dewar alone”. On top of all that fancy ghost capturing tech it’ll even pack in a Sony Cyber-Shot RX camera, Short Throw 4K projector and Stamina battery mode – ideal for winding down after a day of ghost hunting.

Houzz

Houzz Smartz

The company behind home furniture shopping of the future has come up with its own line of smart furniture. Not only are the items spacially aware, to offer placement advice, but they track changes too. The furniture will be able to alert the home owner to dirt build up, smudges and even wrinkles.

The furniture is interactive so, Houzz says, “spending time with your furniture is like being with friends”.

Firebox

Star Trek White Noise sleep aid

Sometimes the one thing you need to send you off to the land of nod at night is the sound of an intergalactic space vessel. Search no further.

ThinkGeek has come up with a device that will replicate (heh) up to eight sounds from five different spacecraft. It will even project a moving star field onto your ceiling to really lull you off to sleep.

First Direct

First Direct 

Save Zap is a new wearable from First Direct capable of recognising a wearer’s location and zapping them when they get too close to a shop they’ve set as a no go area. Simple, yet painfully effective.

WaterPik Shower Belt

Never slip up in the shower again with the Shower Belt. Not only will the belt suction-attach to the shower at three anchor points, to avoid falling, but it’ll double as a tool belt too. Load up with your shower gel, razor, shampoo and anything else you can cram into the Shower Belt and, even with all that weight, you don’t need to worry about falling. Good luck cleaning your waist area though.

Firebox

i-Dodge

Walking and staying connected are not friends. Pesky pedestrians, roads and cars can all get in the way of a nice stroll with your head down in your phone – or they did until now. The i-Dodge from Firebox is a slimline case designed to alert the user to pedestrians. The unit has a built-in flashing light which will illuminate to make sure you don’t walk into a potential collision. Safety and multi-tasking functionality all for £50? Worth it.

Sealy

Sealy Snore Blocker

Worry about a noisy bed partner no more, thanks to Sealy’s new Snore Blocker. Specifically tuned to activate when it detects snoring this devices “uses technology” to create a sound barrier that blocks up to 90 per cent of snore noises.

Virgin

Virgin Active Personal Trainers

What better way to keep motivated when at the gym than have a personal trainer built into your kicks? That’s what these trainers do thanks to built-in speakers that shout tips as you train. But there’s more.

The laces can’t be removed until 2000 calories have been burned, plus there’s a projector to display over 100 workouts for you to follow. Watch out personal trainers, you’ve got some serious competition… or you would if it were actually serious.