OMG WIRELESS EXTENSION CORDS!!! LOL!!! 182
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.
OMG!!! (Score:4, 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.
Re:OMG!!! (Score:1)
a whole day of bad jokes...oh dear...
you have me worried that flowers will sprout out of my compy.
Re:OMG!!! (Score:2)
pink on gray = blind MOFO!!!!!!! (Score:2)
Get a clue on web design or at least color logic.
Gee.. how about a traditional 1983 green 0x00FF00 on black combo?
Re:OMG!!! (Score:2)
Next time they may install an AOLifier [homestead.com] filter to all Slash posts though. Beware!
Re:OMG!!! (Score:2)
Fixed your typographical error. You're welcome.
Re:I feel so pretty! (Score:2)
Sounds like you might want to check her for an Adam's Apple before it gets more intimate....
This also just in.. (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, right... (Score:4, Informative)
Everyone knows toasters migrate north in April!
What do they teach in these schools?
That would be European toasters. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That would be European toasters. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:That would be European toasters. (Score:2)
Re:Yeah, right... (Score:2)
Source?
Re:Yeah, right... (Score:2)
Re:Yeah, right... (Score:2)
I live in a previously tundral oasis, you insensitive clod. The Toasters here are still confused
SB
Re:Yeah, right... (Score:2)
Re:This also just in.. (Score:2)
Re:This also just in.. (Score:2, Funny)
Seriously, they couldn't wait a few hours? Now I get to go to bed with nightmares of pink slashdot pages.
Re:This also just in.. (Score:2)
Re:This also just in.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This also just in.. (Score:2)
Old technology (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Old technology (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Old technology (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Old technology (Score:2)
Re:Old technology (Score:1)
That's all well and good (Score:2)
Hmmm. (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:Hmmm. (Score:1, Interesting)
OMGz LOL (Score:5, Funny)
I liked last year's better (Score:1, Offtopic)
I got tricked. (Score:2)
I mean, it's actually plausible that someone would try to sell something that stupid for an iPod and the people would snap it up.
Re:I got tricked. (Score:2)
Yes, I know it's an abbreviation. However, it's an abbreviation that's been in use for well over 30 years. It's a legit word in its own right now and should follow standard English rules.
Whatever. Freaks.
This is good! (Score:1)
Re:This is good! (Score:2, Funny)
Awesome! (Score:5, Funny)
Power Rating (Score:2)
I know exactly what the answer will be. (Score:2)
-1 Talk to the mod, the user ain't listening (Score:2, Funny)
I mean, there's nothing in it about ponies!!! In fact it sounds more like news for nerds. =(
Just curious (Score:1)
That's hot! (Score:3, Funny)
I know the perfect place to buy these (Score:1, Informative)
To disable the CSS pink abortion (Score:1, Informative)
Sucks (Score:4, Insightful)
Bring back the old days!
Not to say April Fools day sucks, because everyone thinks they're a comedian.
Re:Sucks (Score:2)
I'm always saddened by April Fools (Score:2)
Re:Sucks (Score:2)
I, for one, welcome our completely over-the-top pink pony overlords! (for one day, anyway, and then they really have to go away)
NOOOOOOOO!!! (Score:1)
Here, take some: !,!,!,!,!,!,!,!,!,!,!,!,!,!,!,! (Score:2)
Missing the point (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
Re:Missing the point (Score:5, Funny)
Worst. April Fools. Ever!!!! (Score:2)
Re:Missing the point (Score:2)
Re:Missing the point (Score:2)
Re:Missing the point (Score:2)
Re:Missing the point (Score:2)
Same ole', same ole' selection bias: You only remember the good ones from the past. Oddly enough, no matter how far we progress, the best of the past is always better than the worst of today. Go figure.
Honestly, how many times does the Internet have to put up with this exact parent post?
Re:Missing the point (Score:2)
No.
You must be new here...
Re:Missing the point (Score:2)
if you had $23,000,000 would you care? (Score:2)
Wardrobe requirements (Score:1)
April Fool's and their Money are Soon Parted (Score:2)
AF!
Tesla did it! (Score:3, Informative)
Move along.
oh dear (God|Linus), run and hide everyone! (Score:2)
Re:oh dear (God|Linus), run and hide everyone! (Score:2)
Uh, because it's the internet, duh. ;)
Re:oh dear (God|Linus), run and hide everyone! (Score:2)
It's not even April 1 yet... (Score:2)
Joy (Score:2)
Re:Joy (Score:2)
2. Insert real news items inbetween.
Watch as the one fake, but cunningly plausible april fools' story gets crammed in the mix.
OMG!!!! PONIES!!!1!!?!X#
tags (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Re:tags (Score:2)
OMG! (Score:1)
One-Up Mushrooms as well (Score:2)
craziness with Aprils fools
In other news... (Score:2, Informative)
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!
/. Dig at Digg (Score:2)
At least they could have faked some action shots.. (Score:2, Interesting)
- 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.
What a day to have mod points (Score:2)
I can't even make out the text on half the screen.
OMG, LINUX TORVALDS IS SO CUTE!@!@#!@#)* (Score:4, Funny)
*giggle*
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Re:OMG, LINUX TORVALDS IS SO CUTE!@!@#!@#)* (Score:2)
OMG WTF!!! I HATE TIS FUKED APAHCE!! ><
Cool! (Score:3, Funny)
...damn.
PtP or PtMP? (Score:2)
Point-to-Point, or Point-to-Multipoint?
-- Nathan
P.S. -- Just play along, everybody. Okay?
OMG LOL (Score:2)
awesome.
Cheers dude.
April Fools (Score:3, Funny)
Re:April Fools (Score:2)
But why only 115V? (Score:2)
115V is for wimps. 100V is for even deeper wimps, and 100V 50Hz and 100V 60Hz in one country is for confused wimps.
What would _really_ be cool is one of this gizmos you can hook up directly to 400KV hyper-grid power lines. With bamboo poles.
Maybe it can already but so far no one has lived long enough to say so.
It uses Zero-Point energy, so ... (Score:2)
So, all of you using Cold Fusion can now make the switch to an Environmentaly Safe source of power!
I 3 April Fool's Day (Score:2)
It's like Christmas on
A "Try AOL" ad??
now THAT is funny.
I was actually asked this in real life. (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:I was actually asked this in real life. (Score:2)
Don't be too quick to laugh (Score:2, Interesting)
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 illum
Happy April First Taco (Score:2)
Got a better idea (Score:2)
Thinking about it, wouldn't that be a great idea? If your wireless network doesn't reach quite far enough - say you want to get wireless in the garden - you just run a really long extension lead from your laptop to the wireless router, and bingo, a network connection. We just need a name for them, maybe wifi network leads or something.
Re:OMG! (Score:5, Funny)
No kidding!!!11onemillionfourtyeightthousandfivehund
Three words: (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:jumping the gun (Score:2)
Re:Nigger (Score:2)
1Up Mushroom (Score:2)
Re:1Up Mushroom (Score:2)
Re:Nigger (Score:2)