Google’s annual offering of April Fools’ Day jokes has begun, and the latest is the somewhat clever idea of “Google Gnome,” a Google Home customized for the outdoors that is a little more existentially dour than your average smart assistant.
I say “somewhat clever” because “Google Gnome” is primarily just a bad pun. In fact, it’s a bad pun I made just over two weeks ago on Twitter as part of my ongoing series “Let’s see how many people I can convince to unfollow me.”
I put my smart speaker outside in the garden but everybody thought it was just a lawn ornament. They kept calling it
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) March 16, 2017
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Google Gnome
Which is worse: the possibility that my tweet inspired this video or the possibility that we both...
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http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/3/31/15139888/google-april-fools-day-2017-gnome-home-prank-video
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http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/03/this-google-april-fools-video-isnt-my.html
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