Originally published at: The best April Fools gadget announcement | Boing Boing
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Spoilers: that wasn’t a joke, the folks behind Nothing are totally serious D:
The guy who’s the head of the company (who has an ugly ass monkey for his userpic) is making a bullshit claim (made with a half assed attempt at overhyping) about competing against Apple and Samsung with a phone that’s basically a Motorola phone (a lightweight, near-stock phone that performs pretty well for the asking price) and that observation is coming from a loyal Motorola phone buyer like myself. I’ll give the company some credit for hiring Teenage Engineering to do the aesthetic work but that’s about it.
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Remember the days when Think Geek would come up with a bunch of weird shit, and then end up making half of it due to high demand… the air guitar shirt, for one?
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So the phone is going to have Playmobil looking physical buttons and cost over a thousand dollars?
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The Lockpicking Lawyer usually has a video with a lot of double entendre for April Fools, and he doesn’t disappoint this year!
Yeah! They made a Taun Taun sleeping bag based on an April Fools gag!
eta:
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So, a cryptobro.
WAGMI Limited, doing business as “Nothing” and formerly known as Nothing Holdings, is a Cayman Islands company with global reach through regional subsidiaries.
WAGMI (We’re All Gonna Make It): rallying cry of Crypto/NFT faithful.
Excuse me if I don’t run to invest.
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Now this is an announcement
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Ah, that’s the ticket.
I had noticed the ape avatar, but figure that in the absense of an actual crypto thing, that’s something for the investors to worry about, not consumers.
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But is it waterproof? Because I just spewed coffee all over my totally non-organic stockless laptop.
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Think Geek was great… RIP, Think Geek!
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It is a joke, but it’s also real.
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