Google Nose is Google’s latest April Fools’ Day prank to celebrate the practical joke-based holiday in 2013.
Google Nose BETA, the company’s new fictional product, promises “to offer the sharpest olfactory experience available.”
Google Nose is Google’s latest April Fools’ Day prank to celebrate the practical joke-based holiday in 2013
A video introducing Google Nose explains that the feature allows users to “search for smells. The product intersects “photons with infrasound waves” and “temporarily aligns molecules to emulate a particular scent.” The “mobile aroma indexing program” at the heart of the product has amassed a “15 million Scentibyte database of smells from around the world.”
And, of course, Google has covered the mobile, too. Google’s “Android Ambient Odor Detection” allows you to collect smells on your phone.
However… your nose will have to wait, because this incredible technology only exists in a fictional universe.
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A Sydney’s Manly library sign saying that all of Lance Armstrong’s non-fiction, including Lance Armstrong: Images of a Champion, will soon be moved to the fiction section has sparked approval online.
A council spokesman said the sign was a joke and that local libraries could not arbitrarily reclassify books.
Last week Lance Armstrong ended years of denial by admitting he used performance-enhancing drugs during all seven of his Tour de France wins.
Lance Armstrong, 41, confessed during an interview with chat show host Oprah Winfrey that was watched around the world.
“This was a prank, it happened on Saturday and a member of the public has taken a photo and posted it on social media and it’s gone viral on social media,” said Chris Parsons of Manly Council.
“However you can’t simple reclassify books from fiction to non-fiction,” he said, explaining that classifications were decided at a central level.
Manly library sign saying that all of Lance Armstrong’s non-fiction will soon be moved to the fiction section has sparked approval online
Local reports said the sign was posted by a student working part-time in the library. Chris Parsons did not confirm this but said a “little review” would take place at the library.
“It’s a big, busy library and someone has played a practical joke – it’s gone unnoticed for a while and once staff noticed they changed it,” he said.
Pictures of the sign – which ends with a smiley face – have been widely circulated on social media, with many commentators congratulating the library on its stance.
“Librarians do have a sense of humor,” said one Twitter user.
“Awesome. Slow clap Manly Beach Library,” said another.
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