So it’s April 2nd, which means a roundup of yesterday’s April fools stories. To be sure there were some pretty inventive ones out there – IWOOT came up with some cracking new products. The IClamp was almost believable, but the ContaXt digital lenses were inspired.

Not to be outdone, Firebox retaliated with some lower-tech (but strangely believable) products like powdered beer – which if it doesn’t exist, should! The sat-nav shoes were a nice touch too – technologically possible, but wholly impractical. Which is why I almost fell for them, since an awful lot of what we cover comes into that category!

Toms Hardware went Mac only for the day, while over in the US Think Geek took cube warfare to a new level and introduced the ultimate low maintenance pet.

Zath has some more coverage of the “big” pranks from the likes of Palm and Google but strangely enough, the best stories of the day for me don’t appear to be April Fools at all. New Scientist published a whole slew of articles including:

• A fuel cell that feeds on blood (which I thought had to be a contender but looks fairly legit)
• A novel cure for hayfever 
• My favourite – the scientist that studied 503 pieces of navel fluff to determine it’s origin!

Science, you have to love it!