Stick a bunch of smart engineers in a room to build a product and you're bound to get a few funny ideas. 让一帮聪明的工程师呆在一间屋子里研发一件产品,你一定能收获些有趣的想法。 April Fool's is typically the time when tech-heavy companies decide to unleash those ideas -- for better or worse -- onto the Web. 愚人节这天通常是科技公司决定将这些想法发布到互联网上的日子,至于后果如何,那就没人操心了。 Below are a few of the best from the Web. Find any others? Let us know about them in the comments. 以下是从互联网上收集的其中最有意思的一些想法。你还找到了其他有意思奇思妙想吗?请在文章的评论页面里告诉我们吧。 Bing is Google? -- We're feeling confused. Go to the Bing homepage and search 'Google.' You'll see what we mean in a second. 必应(Bing)是谷歌(Google)?──我们感觉被搞糊涂了。登录必应的主页,搜索Google,你立即就能明白我们是什么意思。 Twttr fnd wys t gt mny -- Twitter said it was 'shifting' to a two-tiered service, in which it would charge users $5 a month for a premium service to use both consonants and vowels in tweets. The free version won't include vowels: 推特(Twitter)找到了赚钱的方法──推特说,它即将“转型”,采取一种两级服务制,它将向享受其高级服务的用户每月收取5美元,这类用户在推特发帖时可既用元音字母也用辅音字母拼写单词。而使用推特免费服务的用户在发帖时不能用元音字母拼写单词。 |