Google invents garden-variety IoT, as a joke.

When it comes to April Fools' Day, the first to come up with interesting ideas is always Google. The most popular search engine loved by programmers of SEO optimized websites, this year too it made us believe that it had created new revolutionary applications that we would be very ready to use, such as Google Gnome. The super-intelligent garden gnome is was designed to respond to your requests… in the garden. If at home we are now used to Iot technologies, when it comes to gardening we still act in the old way and then here is the Google Gnome that tells us what the weather is like and if it is warm. the right time to plant a sprout. For now you'll just have to rely on your green thumb, Google Gnome was an April Fool's joke.

The Dutch division of Google has had fun proposing a new service available only in the Netherlands: Google Wind. The contraption, thanks to its ability to to predict the arrival of rain, will activate the mills of which the town is full and will create a contrary current that will send away the clouds. For the French, April Fools' Day touched the most popular product loved. With Google Cheese Master, the innovative app for mobile devices, presented by Google on the first day of April, will be It is possible to recognize the various types of cheese thanks to a simple scan from a smartphone.

Google maps have also been the butt of jokes. Google Maps is been invaded by the yellow Pac-Man ball, with which, in a parallel version, you could also play.

The ideas that populate the internet during April Fools' Day are always interesting, some absurd, others that could really be developed. Google Gnome is not other than IoT for use outside the home, it is really so absurd?