Gadget April Fools from Japan

Proving that fake articles are as much a staple of April Fool's in Japan as anywhere else, Impress has an entire site up full of lies and jokes. A lot of it consists of puns that we're not even going to attempt to translate, but two highlights are the KDD1 INFOBAA wearable cellphone pictured right ("baa" meaning "old woman", incidentally) and the HTT DoCoMou O-Saifu wallet cellphone (saifu meaning wallet, ho ho), which takes the novel step of building a cellphone into a wallet that comes in colours called Wife Red and Husband Black. It doesn't feature a memory card slot, but you can "use it like a ToDo list by writing things on scraps of paper and stuffing them in with your banknotes", they note helpfully. For those wondering about the watermelon cellphone further down the page, we offer the observation that Suica (Japan Railways' smartcard commuter pass) sounds the same as the word for watermelon.

[Impress Watch fake site (Japanese)]

[Via Slashdot Japan]