From Laughs to Inspiration: April Fool's 2023

April Fool's jokes provide us with a unique opportunity to exercise our imagination and step out of our everyday reality. Though some of these jokes may never come to fruition while others might, they allow us to envision a slightly different world and have a good laugh.

This year, we can even laugh together with AI. Let's start from ChatGPT's ideas for April Fool's products:  

"Microsoft Office for Dogs" - a suite of productivity tools designed specifically for dogs, including "Excel for Fetching," "Word for Barking," and "PowerPoint for Begging." 

"Jambé Pong" - A game that combines the musical elements of the Jambé with the classic game of beer pong. The Jambé Pong set comes with a special set of Jambé balls that you use to play the game, and every time you sink a ball, the Jambé plays a different sound effect.

Bing suggests more products: 

Apple iFridge: A smart fridge that only stores items made by Apple.

Google Gulp: A drink that claims to optimize your use of the Google search engine by increasing your intelligence.

Here is another product described for google by you.com: 

Google: GooGoo Glasses, smart glasses that automatically detect when you've had too much sugar and remind you to eat healthier snacks.

You.com also mentioned the following offerings from other tech companies:

Twitter: TwitHire, a service that helps you find the perfect candidate for your startup by analyzing their tweets for the right combination of wit, humor, and experience.

Netflix: NetFix, a feature that automatically skips to the happy ending of all sad movies, sparing you from the emotional trauma.

Dropbox: DropZone, a cloud storage service that uses drones to deliver your files directly to your desktop.

Perplexity.ai offered Facebook Friend Insurance: Worried about losing a friend on Facebook? With Facebook Friend Insurance, you can protect your friendships from unfriending, blocking, or even ghosting. Get peace of mind knowing your friendships are secure.

Google has had many great April Fool's announcements over the years. One of the best was in 2014 - a new service called "Google Nose" allowing users to smell things online. When asked about possible upgrades to this product, Bard mentioned the ability to create custom smells specific to users' interests and the ability to share them and use smells to communicate with each other. 

Bard also described a new feature for Gmail that would allow users to send emails to people at any date in the past. The feature, called "Time Travel," was said to be powered by artificial intelligence.

Bard also announced a new vaccine that would protect people from getting sick from April Fools' Day jokes. It will be manufactured by Pfizer, Moderna and J&J.

While AI-suggested April Fool's products are creative and amusing, the real announcements made today by companies, though not involving cutting-edge technology, were just as funny and witty.

When they were released in the 1980s, Chicken McNuggets genuinely revolutionized the way all fast restaurant chicken was served, making them the industry's living legend. The Big McNugget Boot, a new seasonal must-have item from McDonald's, is based on one of their most well-liked products. The April 1 2023 tweet from the company said "Calling all fashionista. We’ve got the must have drop of the season. Unveiling the Big McNugget Boot, the most flavoursome shoe of SS23. Releasing exclusively through the McDonald’s App this Monday." Pizza Hut meanwhile was already selling their April 1st product - zero-harm pizza consisting only of a crust. Domino's Pizza announced that it was launching a new pizza that was made with real cheese from cows that had been fed pizza crust. The pizza, called the "Pizza Crust-Fed Cow Pizza," was said to be available for a limited time at select Domino's locations. 

Telegraph reported that under radical climate plans secretly approved by the government, several of Britain's tallest structures, including the BT Tower, might be turned into wind turbines to assist Britain in reaching net zero.  British Telecom agreed that their tower is a good place to start because it’s basically the same shape as a wind turbine, but without the propellers. So we just need to stick some on the side of it.

Torpedo7, the ultimate all-rounder for outdoor stores in New Zealand, introduced their latest product innovation: the Inflatable Rock.

Torpedo explained that it's perfect for hikers who want to take a break and sit on something that looks and feels just like a real rock. Instead of heavy camping chairs, you can now carry a lightweight and easy to inflate item along with a pump and instruction guide, to take your outdoor experience to the next level.

Meanwhile Amtrak introduced a loud car - where all your conversations will be heard by everyone else. 

All phone calls must be on speaker, since all other passengers do want to hear the mixtape and that GRWM you're watching. Since everyone in the loud car wants to hear about other people's situationship, as a courtesy the train employees will come around for the disposing of headphones. It is not clear what will happen to those who are just quietly scrolling TikTok.

Duolingo and Peacock announced Love Language, a new reality dating show from Peacock and Duolingo where the hottest singles in the world will share a house in paradise in hopes of finding true love. The catch? None of them speak the same language. 

Game developers often celebrate April Fool's Day by releasing special in-game events, updates, or content that are meant to be humorous or absurd. 

A murder mystery visual novel game on Steam for PC and Mac is the point-and-click adventure that puts you amid the Sonic cast on a murder mystery party aboard the Mirage Express. Sonic as the victim. You, Tails, and Amy attempt to hunt down the killer among the other familiar guests. 

Niantic celebrated "April Fowl’s day" with an announced epidemic of Pidgeys. Pokémon Center replaced Pokemons with Lechonks.

Mojang Studios, the developer of Minecraft, is debuting the Vote update, which gives all the power to the hands of the players. That is, players can vote for whatever features they want in the game, and it will come to life instantly.

While many of the products and designs introduced on this day may be jokes, they can still inspire us with their ingenuity and whimsy. So, keeping an eye on April Fool's jokes and pranks can be a fun way to stay up to date with the latest trends in tech, while also potentially discovering new ideas and concepts that could shape the future of innovation.

Check past year's jokes from our previous blog posts.

April 1, 2022: April Fools' 2022 April Fools' Technology jokes can be prophetic or ominous, wishful thinking or a reflection of real concerns.

April 1, 2021: Laughter as Medicine: The pandemics is not over, but should we pause the jokes?

April 1, 2019: Technologies we wish existed. Science fiction stories and April fool jokes often describe speculative technology we wish existed in our world.
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April 1, 2018: Technology Funnies and Futures. Some April Fool's jokes come true, some have the potential to be prophetic or ominous, and some products we really wish existed. 

April 1, 2016: Technology, Dreams and Jokes  As Sigmund Freud suggested, jokes often expose unconscious desires. Perhaps the technologies listed below, too, have a grain of our desires wrapped in a smile?  ...

April 1, 2016: IoT marches on: Key Fool's day Announcements  Technology keeps marching ahead. And the future gets smarter with the Internet of Things. Here are a few announcements made on April 1 2016 

Most Marketed Foods are Least Healthy

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New report on marketing spending and nutrient content of cereals confirms once again that the most marketed foods are among the worst for health.

This report has spurred numerous blogs (by Marion Nestle, ABC News, etc) and a lot of debate.
Many think that eating healthy food is solely our own responsibility and the industry should not be blamed. Is it really so?

Eating used to be just a biological function based on energetic needs until food industry had discovered that it could be transformed into addiction. Combining fat, salt and sugar with flavors, textures and visual appeal can make us crave, stimulate our brains to want more, and wire us to overeat. Our bodies are not supposed to crave for unhealthy ingredients, researchers have shown that we are happy to eat non-sweetened food without unneeded additives.

Indeed, we just need "to understand why we eat what we eat", says Dr. David Kessler, the former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and former dean of the Yale School of Medicine. But it may not be easy for most of us - without health-warning labels and regulations. Taste, preferences acquired during childhood and adolescence, friends & family, and media have more influence on what we eat than our understanding of what is healthy and what is not. In 1997, food manufacturers spent 44.4% of their advertising budget on prepared convenience foods, confectionery, snacks, bakery goods compared with only 2.2% on fruits, vegetables, grains and beans. Yale report finds that of the 19 brands marketed in 2008 through early 2009, only Kellogg Mini-Wheats received a healthy nutrition rating. The six worst brands belong to General Mills: Lucky Charms, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Honey Nut Cheerios, Trix, Reeses’s Puffs and Cocoa Puffs. Post follows with their Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles brand. Finally, Kellogg Frosted Flakes, Corn Pops and Froot Loops complete the worst offenders list. These cereals with the lowest nutrition quality were marketed directly to children in high volumes on television, the internet and in the supermarket.

Aurametrix supports Dr. Kessler's call for action asking for:

1. All restaurants to list calorie counts for all their dishes;
   
2. All food products to carry labels revealing added sugars, refined carbs and fats;
   
3. Better public education about food, nutrition and addiction
   
4. AND food marketing to be monitored and exposed

We might even need cigarette-like health-warning labels... as in video-games.

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• Sweet Spot: How Sugary Cereal Makers Target Kids (time.com)
• Least healthy cereals are aimed at children (parentcentral.ca)

Aurametrix is working on tools to help you evaluate your personal health risks and benefits and make the right health & food choices.

Your Guide to Eating Out.. or should you really?

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On July 23rd, 2009 , Nick DeBenedetto, a 48-year-old resident of Tinton Falls, N.J., and the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit advocacy group, filed lawsuit against Denny's Corp. in New Jersey, Reuters reports. (Read more on this story from the Los Angeles Times)

The suit contains data about some of the chain's high-salt meals. The Meat Lover's Scramble, for example, which contains cheese, eggs, bacon, diced ham and sausage, and comes with more meat on the side as well as hash browns and pancakes has 5,690 milligrams of sodium — the equivalent of nearly three days' advised maximum salt intake. (you can calculate it from Denny's Nutrition facts table)

Is there something special about Denny's? Not at all. There are many more restaurants and chains that have worse items on their menu. Many of them do not even want to display their nutrition facts on websites or answer requests to provide this information. Americans don't really know what's on their plates.

Keep in mind that most people should limit themselves to about 2,000 calories, 20 grams of saturated fat, and 1,500-2,400 mg of sodium per day and look at these items:

• The Cheesecake Factory’s Chicken and Biscuits has 2,500 calories.
• Chili’s Big Mouth Bites with fries contains 3,940 milligrams of sodium, 2,350 calories, and 38 grams saturated fat.
• The Olive Garden Tour of Italy, with lasagna, chicken parmigiana, and fettuccine alfredo, has 1,450 calories, 33 grams saturated fat, and 3,830 milligrams sodium.
• The Cheesecake Factory Fried Macaroni and Cheese has 69 grams of saturated fat, 1,570 calories, and 1,860 milligrams sodium.
• The Cheesecake Factory Philly Style Flat Iron Steak with fries contains 5,340 milligrams of sodium, 2,320 calories, and 47 grams saturated fat.
• Applebee’s Quesadilla Burger with fries has 1,820 calories, 46 grams saturated fat, and 4,410 milligrams sodium.
• The Red Lobster Ultimate Fondue, a salty concoction of shrimp and crabmeat in a lobster cheese sauce served in a sourdough bread bowl, contains 3,580 milligrams of sodium, 1,490 calories, and 40 grams saturated fat.
• Chili’s Original Half Rack of Baby Back Ribs have 12 saturated fat grams along with 490 calories, and 2,050 milligrams sodium.
• Uno Chicago Grill’s Mega-Sized Deep Dish Sundae has 2,800 calories, 72 grams saturated fat.
• Movie theater popcorn offerings range from 400 to 1,200 calories, with one to three days' worth of saturated fat and up to 1,500 milligrams of sodium. Make it a combo and add 300 to 1,110 empty calories worth of candy and another 150 to 500 calories from a sugary soft drink to wash it all down.
• Starbucks venti dark berry mocha frappuccino has 561 calories like entire meal
  

Consider why you should avoid dining out: Researchers have found that restaurants are full of environmental cues—from plate size to bread condiments—that encourage us to eat more.

Fast food eateries and the finest diners have limited choices if your goal is not to overeat and limit intake of fat, salt, sugar and common triggers of food intolerance.

Even restaurant salads - adored by people trying to eat healthy - are coming with many unhealthy ingredients (watch this video, for example). This includes processed salad dressings including trans fat, artificial flavors, excess sugar, harmful preservatives such as MSG, sodium nitrites (for example, in bacon bits). Restaurant salads are often based on iceberg lettuce that has way less useful nutrients than romaine, red leaf, green leaf lettuce, or spinach.

Aurametrix is working on tools to help you make the right choices.

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Aurametrix is working on tools to help you evaluate your personal health risks and benefits and make the right health choices.

Skin and Food Allergy

Mirrored from Aurametrix blog

Skin rash does not imply a specific disease or condition and can be due to many different causes. One of them is food allergy.
The most common triggers of a skin reaction are milk, eggs, peanut, wheat, gluten, soy, fish, shellfish, nuts and sesame seeds. I mentioned it in my blog When Food is the Enemy.
These pictures are from articles on Food Allergy (left) and Celiac Disease (right). As you see, it's hard to tell what the reason is without knowing the complete history and diet habits. Dermatitis herpetiformis is an intensely itchy, blistering skin rash that affects 15% to 25% of people with celiac disease If you suspect celiac, replace your wheat, barley and rye cereal with grits, rice, buckwheat or other gluten-free cereal. Check if your toothpaste, mouthwash and other personal care products have gluten and replace them too.

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is one of the most common symptoms of cow's milk allergy or intolerance. The prevalence of occupational asthma due to handling of see food products ranges from 7% to 36%, and for occupational seafood protein contact dermatitis, from 3% to 11%
Recent clinical experience suggests that there has been an increase in adult patients who report an allergic reaction 3-6 hours after eating red meat.

See also

Potato Intolerance   Potato Allergies

Milk Allergy and Intolerance

Tomato Allergies  Tomato and Grass Allergies

Citrus Allergy

1st Generation Software Tools for Health 2.0

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Aurametrix is developing next-generation (Health 3.0) systems for Personal Health Management. The following Health 2.0 software tools attempt to keep track of health-related information, including food & beverage intake, medications, weight, biometric measurements, medical tests, wheezing, physical fitness, mental health, job satisfaction, mood, sleep, brain fitness, creativity, menstrual cycles, sexual life, sleep, and diaper change among other things.

	Track your Foods, Exercises, Weight and Goals, body measurements, including neck, bicep, forearm, chest, waist, hip, thigh, and calf. Track your daily moods, including happiness, stress, anger, hunger, health, and mental clarity. Analyze relationships between your mood and diet. 2 million users (>4.2 mln members)
	Nutrition and exercise manager, diet diary, recipe book, diabetes log, APIs Food Database contains nutritional information for over 55,000 foods, including generic foods, supermarket brands, ethnic foods, over 200 fast-food and restaurant chains.
	Log and track the foods you eat, get nutritional analysis, share logs Log and track the physical activity and exercises you perform Get calorie recommendations based on your estimated metabolism Log and maintain a record of health benchmarks such as weight, waist / hip, cholesterol, and blood glucose
	Personalized diet & fitness plan, blog, expert answers Calorie counter & exercise tracker, recipes & videos 5mln users. Teen edition -SparkTeens.com; Pregnancy & parenting community - BabyFit.com
	Food groups, healthy eating tips, and more Supertracker - replaced MyPyramid menu planner for kids, preschollers, moms... Dietary Guidelines
	Log food, activity, weight. Create your diet, determine your profile & nutritional grades of foods, meet like-minded people. 88,000 foods, 199,000 recipes, 522,000 users
	Keep your food diary in pink steamer, calculate how much you should eat, exercise and life style change Another tool, Mealographer, allows to enter multiple foods separrated by commas. See also Fatsecret,Lifemojo,
	Find detailed nutrition information, plus analysis tools developed by Nutrition Data (Estimated Glycemic Load™, IF (Inflammation Factor) Ratings™, and omega-3 to omega-6 ratios, etc) that tell you more about how foods affect your health and make it easier to choose healthy foods.
	Medically-based program committed to helping you eat healthier and be healthier by optimizing nutrition. For example, optimize lipid profile to slow the progression of heart disease and reduce the risk of heart attack. An option to have your favorite meals delivered
	Track your daily food intake, Create your own foods and recipes, Track exercises and log daily steps, set uphealthy lifestyle goals and track your progress. Nutritional analysis on 20+ nutrients in over 30,000 foods.
	Tweet what you eat. Maintain a food diary through SMS, IM or web.Calorie counts are suggested based on earlier entries. Check also eat.lysite, Foodpad, and other iPhone apps to eat your heart out. Or use twitter to track your flowing data, including sleep, exercise, emotions, trips, unread e-mails and other things
	Track your weight and health notes, analyze trends, browse other accounts under fake IDs  See also Sensei, the digital weight loss coach
	An example of an off-online weight management and nutrition monitoring software - BalanceLog based upon RMR measurements from the MedGem/BodyGem device. Includes a database of over 4,000 foods and 300 exercises. See 2009 Reviews of other downloadable packages:  Fitness Products,  Nutrition Products; other tools include WeightWare (weight, exercise, calories, health history),DietPower (monitor 33 nutrients in your meals), DietOrganizer (31 nutrients, 6K+ foods, 200+ exercises, spreadsheet entries, body measurements), FoodDiary (17K foods, including fast food chain restaurants), Smart Diary Suite 4, a completely customizable personal information solution with graph plotting features, and many more.
	Get a nutritional snapshot of your Safeway Store Card purchases along with healthy alternatives to your choices.
	Track and monitor your medication, biometrics (weight, glucose, etc.), food, exercise, symptoms (from anxiety and mood, to sleep disturbance and wheezing), to understand what works and what doesn't work for you. Speech Transcription Service.
	Capture your health-related hypotheses and experiments, share them with the community and vote-up interesting and useful results.
	Track your sleep, weight, caloric intake, and exercise. Compare your symptoms and treatments for 212 conditions with the Community. Similar to: PatientsLikeMe and other sites listed below
	Track self-assessed personal health data, share real-time information with emergency, experts and insurance contacts. Another site allowing multiple trackers: MedHelp
	Record life's events and discover patterns with LivingTime. Import Public Event Timelines to view yourlife against the backdrop of world events. Even better, Be Like Ben, tracking Benjamin Franklin's 13 virtues for good living. Set goals with Lifetick, remember things-to-do with reQall, Remember what's important to you with reQall ert Or just visualize and share how you are spending your time online (Nebul, Rescuetime)
	Plan and track yourexercise, drag-and-drop, add music, have fun. Use interactive devices such asExerspy to pump up your workouts
	Track calories, fat, carbs, and protein, generate shopping lists, share diets. Plan and log cardio workouts, build muscle, meet people with same goals.
	Interactive web based training and nutrition log to help individuals achieve their goals. Interact withcoaches, trainers and dietitians, customized meal plans. See also Skimble, or totaltrainer
	Track your health, diet, and exercise, visualize your progress.
	Track your menstrual cycles, symptoms, weight, share information with other members, set up reminders
	Use the calendar to track your cycles, notes and basal body temperature.  Generate statistics and predictions about your cycles, send reminders
	Track and analyze your monthly cycles, cervical biometrics, temperature, symptoms.
	The HealthyPlace Mood Tracker tracks your sleep, weight, moods, your feelings and actions behind them. It will send an alert to your doctor or therapist or a family member, when you appear depressed or manic.
	Simply log in after every time you have sex and fill out a few fields. Measure sex quality, frequency, duration, and share it with your partner.
	Trixie Tracker helps to uncover patterns in your baby's sleep rhythms, eating and other daily activity. Track introduction of new foods, medicines, diaper changes, create snack menus,  share it online. Check also Grow with me iPhone App
	Write down your goals and dares, track your food, exercise, symptoms. Share and celebrate your accomplishments. (acquired DailyPlate)
	Keep your Bills, Tasks, Meetings, Groceries, Shopping Lists, and reminders stored in your personal calendar. Color code for quick reference. Or track everything with TallyZoo,Dayta and other apps
	Monitor diet, exercise, medications, job satisfaction, menstrual cycles, sexual life, your kid’s height, and more. Share reports and pictures.
	To be launched soon: Track lab results, nutrition, appointment scheduling, interact with physicians. Theranos is another emerging company aiming to offer better health choices. Proteus' Raisin measures when and if a patient takes their medication and tracks vital signs. PhiloMetron promises to deliver a wearable device monitoring calories: in and out, while iPod + Nike are already doing it - their way.
	One of primary care practice platforms helping doctors communicate, document, and transact with their patients in person and online. Similar tools: Vision Tree Software to make appointments thru secure messaging system, American Well with  video tools,ReachMyDoctor iwith a coordinated care plan,  Relay Health for health information exchanges
	Games encouraging physical activity for a healthy heart (CryptoZoo),improving lifes of young patients with chronic diseases (HopeLab), helping veterans to cope with problems (Creative Technologies)
	Compare doctors and hospitals withHospital Compare, Vitals,HealthGrades and FindaDoc. Estimate costs with New Choice Health, Healthcare Blue Book,Ventanaf manage bills with Quicken Health.
	Import your medical records, track medications, refill prescriptions online, share your health information with your care network. See also 23andme, Navigenics for genomic data, SugarStats for diabetes, migraineliving for migrainers
	View your medical tests and medications, renew prescriptions,track allergies, manage appointments
	Track your mood, creativity, stress, sleep, love life. Compare your graphs to others.
	List your goals, share your progress, describe how you did it, cheer each other. See also manymoon.com - share google documents, tasked based emails, and team into one convenient project on the web.
	Keep track of money - The #1 cause of stress in America. See also expensify.com - your very own online accounting department
	Keep a personalised Sporting and Fitness record: enter your results for each physicalactivity to be matched to sports, rate yourself against the mental toughness tests to find your strength and weaknesses. See what others think about you.
	alphagrade.com - Help teens take a break from facebook! AlphaGrade is a tool to link school grades and chores to their weekly allowance.
	Monitor and Track your Brain Fitness progress. Mind Sparke: Brain Fitness Pro - Software that makes you smarter. Junior and Senior Versions.Many other desktop tools are also available such as  BrainFitness for up to 3 users.
	Play Brain Games, Track your Progress, Challenge Friends and make new ones. For other health games, check this site
	Tools for nutritional support, updates on the medical news, chat rooms, message boards and support communities to share information, advice and treatment experiences.
	Facilitates doctor-patient interaction via e-mail, provides graphic representation of how patients are doing
	Microsoft HealtVault allows toorganize your health information, with everything in one place and gain insight with data that helps to make informed decisions. Can be integrated with glucometers, blood pressure monitors, weight scales.
	A place to document your sexual history and map sexual connections. Features "spider-web style maps" that reveal the elaborate architecture of past and present liasons.
	Applications such as Daytum help you collect, categorize and communicate your everyday data.iPhone app is also available.  OhLife e-mails back snippets of your daily logs, IOGraph tracks the path of your  computer mouse and turns it into art.
	Location may be important for health outcomes. Bright kite is a location-based social network. In real time you can see where your friends are and what they're up to. Uses Google Earth and Cell Phone GPS.Foursquare makes it fun too.  You can also use Noteleaf to keep notes about your social encounters.
	iPhone/iTunes application to track bowel movements in real time. Uses Interactive Maps and Cell Phone GPS.
	GI Monitor  is an iPhone/iTunes application to help IBD patients easily track their symptoms and report them back to doctors.
	Another "great gift for the poop lover": the Poo Log (available on theApp Store) is a "digital timer and journal for recording and studying the wondrous uniqueness of each bowel movement". Now you can track and graph your digestive workings and gain great e-loo-cidating experience
	IBStracker (Simple means to track symptoms and triggers related to IBS and IBD/Colitis) is available for Android (check it here). Other apps available help to interrupt the cycle of thoughts and body sensations that fuel a panic attack, and eventually IBS-related issues (Let Panic Go, available on App Store)
	A tool to track gut functioning, post BM assessments as well as other assessments of feelings and symptoms. Graphs of symptoms and a text report can be e-mailed to friends and  doctors.
	Yet another diet and fitness tracking site on the web. With FoodScanner, a new app that scans package bar codes, calorie logging can be quicker and easier
	Wireless e-scale sends your weight online to monitor and share your progress, exercise ideas, recipes, motivate yourself and others.
	The Exerspy interactive system will pump up your workouts, and could make you healthy - but only if you make healthy choices by yourself. Similar: DirectLifefrom Phillips, Bodybugg. See alsoECG Necklace and Philometron GreenGoose allows to track not only your workouts (with a credit-card sized sensor) but other activities if you stick sensors on to things like a water-bottle, toothbrush or floss
	Track and analyze music listening histories with LastHistory.
	Sleep moniotring applications: Zeoheadband with a bedside display;  Also: SnoreMonitor;  Fitbit.