New Translator for Pet Language...is My Favorite from April Fool's 2025

My favorite April tech-fools is a "Dr. Dotlittle" pet language translating tool. Followed by OpenAI's new language won't take any more of your 💩. And one prank I actually bought. For real.

Ever wished you could talk to animals like Dr. Dolittle?

Well, thanks to Timekettle’s latest innovation (and Nicole at Tandem Communications who sent this pitch to me), that dream is now a reality! Introducing Timekettle Babel Fish Translator—the world’s first AI-powered translator for animal languages.

Using advanced bioacoustic AI, deep learning, and extensive hours of decoding barks, meows, and chirps, Babel Fish Translator enables you to communicate with your pets— and possibly even the neighborhood squirrel.

Early test results include:
🐶 Dog: “The mailman is obviously a threat. You’re welcome.”
🐱 Cat: “I knocked your glass over because I felt like it.”
🦜 Parrot: “I heard what you said about Aunt Linda.”

We’re still fine-tuning translations for goldfish and turtles—so far, it’s just long pauses and “blub-blub.”

Babel Fish Translator is expected to hit the market in time for the holidays. However, the Timekettle’s real W4 AI translation earbuds will debut in May.

(P.S. I used ChatGPT 40 to create the image above. That’s such a cool thing to play around with. I’ll show you some secrets for getting exactly what you want out of it in this week’s newsletter.)

Razer Gen Alpha Slang Translator

From the New York Times:

The gaming brand Razer tackled Gen Alpha slang with a YouTube video for the Razer Skibidi, which it said was “the world’s first A.I.-powered brainrot translator headset.” The headset can translate what others are saying and will also convert anything you say into something more brainrot appropriate. Very sigma.

Why go outside to touch grass when you can caress your phone?

Here’s my second favorite April Fool’s: DBrand’s “Touch Grass Phone Case” … BUT THIS ONE IS REAL … and I just bought one. 🤣

Here’s what The Verge wrote about it:

Dbrand wants you to feel less guilty about having your face buried in a screen all day and not getting outside to ‘touch grass.’ The company’s latest collection of skins lets you wrap your gadgets in bright green artificial turf so you can touch grass whenever you want, no matter where you are.

The Touch Grass collection is available now through Dbrand’s website for more than 100 different devices with pricing similar to its other premium skins: $29.95 for smartphones, $49.95 for tablets, and $69.95 for laptops.

Despite the April 1st timing, the Touch Grass collection isn’t a prank, Dbrand CEO Adam Ijaz assured The Verge. “Each year, April 1st rolls around and companies trip over themselves to see who can be the least funny. We, on the other hand, take the opportunity to launch real products. Are they drenched in satire? Yes — but they’re real products you can buy.”

Read more at The Verge here.

Yahoo has a grassy keyboard too.

Here are a few round-ups of the best pranks of the season. What’s your favorite? Did you fall for any or get your friends or family to fall for them?

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