Technology companies seem to have a thing with April Fools Day and this year was no different, here we report on 10 or our favourite hoax gadgets from the past few years.
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Geeks never seem to get enough sun light so always look a bit pale next to “normal” people, well that could be about to change thanks to the all new USB Desktop Tanning Center (with protective goggles).

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You know those space saving beds you can get that fold-up to the wall when not in use. Well you can now get them for your pet cat or dog. During the day it will look like any other wall cabinet whilst when it’s your 4 legged friends nap time it folds out to reveal a pet friendly (i.e. washable) mattress.

This is probably one for the poshest of pets as it costs $199.95 (comes in black or mahogany). Available from Hammacher.

Can you imagine a gadget that tells you when someone is bored talking to you? Well MIT labs have come up with just such as device, which uses image recognition technology to read a person’s body language to see if they are paying attention.

I need this gadget. For instance I’ve often tried to explain to my wife the importance of installing the latest hardware drivers for a stable operating system. Sometimes I get the distinct impression that she’s not at all interested. Now with my “boredom-level” meter, I can be certain and if necessary steer the conversation to more engaging topics such as kitchen furniture and the latest celebrity gossip.

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If you’re lucky enough to have your own outdoor swimming pool but not quite lucky enough to have a heated outdoor pool you might be interested in these Solar-Powered Pool Heating Rings which provide an ecologically friendly way of raising the water temperature.

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Behold the power of USB devices! There are so many wonder stuffs you can do with USB drives, and the most popular usage is of course as a memory (thumb) drive. For some, a 512MB drive is quite good enough to store necessary personal data, but for others 2GB may not be enough. What can you do with such a huge capacity of USB flash drive? Well, what do you do with huge harddisk storage on your PC? The answer is just plain simple.

Anyway, what we have here is not 2GB, not 4GB, rather we have 64GB (Gigabytes) USB Flash drive from the Buslink Drive Pro 2 series.

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It’s on the record that I hate dogs, and have written about Rex the electronic guard dog who can protect the home without leaving hairs everywhere and chewing your slippers.

Now Samsung-Italia have taken the concept of an electronic guard dog one step further and made Fido the robotic, canine suitcase.

I think this is one of the wackiest gadgets I’ve ever seen.

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If you can’t decide which flavour of drink you prefer then why not buy a bottle and choose the flavour later. Thanks to an invention by Sudbury based company IPIFINI, this may soon be possible thanks to it’s Programmable Liquid Container(TM) technology.
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