後愚人節效應: 最佳愚人節笑話

Stick a bunch of smart engineers in a room to build a product and you're bound to get a few funny ideas.
讓一幫聰明的工程師呆在一間屋子裏研發一件產品，你一定能收穫些有趣的想法。

April Fool's is typically the time when tech-heavy companies decide to unleash those ideas -- for better or worse -- onto the Web.
愚人節這天通常是科技公司決定將這些想法發佈到互聯網上的日子，至於後果如何，那就沒人操心了。

Below are a few of the best from the Web. Find any others? Let us know about them in the comments.
以下是從互聯網上收集的其中最有意思的一些想法。你還找到了其他有意思奇思妙想嗎？請在文章的評論頁面裏告訴我們吧。

Bing is Google? -- We're feeling confused. Go to the Bing homepage and search 'Google.' You'll see what we mean in a second.
必應(Bing)是谷歌(Google)？──我們感覺被搞糊塗了。登錄必應的主頁，搜索Google，你立即就能明白我們是什麼意思。

Twttr fnd wys t gt mny -- Twitter said it was 'shifting' to a two-tiered service, in which it would charge users $5 a month for a premium service to use both consonants and vowels in tweets. The free version won't include vowels:
推特(Twitter)找到了賺錢的方法──推特說，它即將“轉型”，採取一種兩級服務制，它將向享受其高級服務的用戶每月收取5美元，這類用戶在推特發帖時可既用元音字母也用輔音字母拼寫單詞。而使用推特免費服務的用戶在發帖時不能用元音字母拼寫單詞。

Hand-written results from Wolfram Alpha -- The math-juiced search engine now promises its results will come hand-written.
來自Wolfram Alpha的手寫搜索結果──精於數學計算的搜索引擎Wolfram Alpha現在承諾，它將以手寫方式將搜索結果展現出來。

Treasure hunting -- Like last year, Google has a special mod for Google Maps today, turning it into a giant treasure map like the ones you would see in pirate movies. Swapping to street view is the equivalent of looking through a spyglass. Give it a whirl.
搜尋寶藏──像去年一樣，谷歌週一這天也將對谷歌地圖(Google Maps)進行特殊處理，將其轉變成一張巨大的藏寶圖，就像你在海盜電影中看到的那種。觀看谷歌街景能得到相當於從一架小望遠鏡裏向外看的視覺效果。來試試吧。

YouTube shutting down -- Apparently YouTube as we know it was an eight year-long contest to find the greatest video on the Internet. Having received enough 'submissions,' YouTube will 'shut down' tonight as judges determine which was the best video on the Internet. This one actually fooled quite a bit of people on Twitter.
YouTube關閉──衆所周知，YouTube是一場歷時八年的競賽，競賽的內容是在互聯網上找到最偉大的視頻內容。在收到了足夠多的“參賽作品”後，YouTube將於週一晚間關閉，屆時評審們將評出互聯網上的最佳視頻。這則假消息還真的在推特上騙了不少人。

Google Nose -- 'Sometimes, they're not looking at all.' There's a new 'service' from Google that will let users 'search' for smells.
谷歌鼻子(Google Nose)──有時候，你根本不用眼睛。谷歌推出一項新“服務”，通過這項服務用戶可以“搜索”氣味。

Nokia reinvents the Microwave -- The Finnish company isn't stopping with mobile phones to jump-start itself. Its newest product is a touch-screen microwave oven that, like its phones, appears to be based on Microsoft's Windows software.
諾基亞(Nokia)重新發明微波──這家芬蘭公司並不僅限於依靠手機來使自己獲得業務增長的動力。其最新產品是一款觸控屏微波爐，這一產品像該公司的手機一樣，似乎也使用微軟(Microsoft)的Windows軟件。

A 3-D printer for kids -- We wish these products were real. ThinkGeek is offering fun products for the whole family, including a Play-Doh 3-D Printer, and for 'Lord of the Rings' fans, an Eye of Sauron Desk Lamp, complete with a 'roving eye that will watch you while you work.'
兒童專用3D打印機──我們希望這些產品是真實存在的。網上零售商ThinkGeek將推出家用樂趣產品，其中包括培樂多繽紛彩泥(Play-Doh)3D打印機, 還將推出爲電影《指環王》(Lord of the Rings)的影迷準備的樂趣產品，“黑暗之君“索倫之眼檯燈，它包括一個“在你工作時觀察你的顧盼之眼”。

Upload Imgur images by snail mail -- Instead of directly uploading a photo through the Web to image hosting site Imgur, you can now 'mail' it to the site.
用平郵方式向圖片分享網站Imgur上傳照片──你現在可以不再通過互聯網向圖片分享網站Imgur上傳照片，而是將照片真正地“郵寄”給這家網站。

Chatting with emoticons -- Words are so 2012. Hipchat has a new service called Emotichat that translates your messages entirely into emoticons, complete with a passive-aggressive detector.
用表情符號聊天──用語言聊天已經過時了。私聊和即時通訊應用程序提供商Hipchat將推出一項名爲“表情聊天”(Emotichat)的新服務，它能把你的文字信息直接翻譯成表情符號，這項服務還配有一個用戶“消極進攻型”人格探測程序。