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Do Instagrammers who post pictures of food annoy you? Apparently, they irritate a lot of people, including some guys who took it upon themselves to come up with an in-your-face prank that demonstrates just how annoying their behavior is.

Or that could just be my interpretation of their prank. Anyway, the whole thing was orchestrated by Hungry, which is a YouTube channel that’s all about food.

They had two pranksters travel all around town, asking random people if they could take a picture of their food so they can post it to their Instagram account. It’s invasive and irksome for them to do so, but it also happens to be a very funny clip. You can check out what happened in the clip below:

What do you find most annoying about Instagram?

[via Laughing Squid]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that today is April Fool’s Day. Many of the items we’re posting on the site today aren’t real – but some are. This is one product that falls into the former bucket, but I so wish were in the latter.

The guys at Sphero have announced an epic new version of their smartphone-controlled ball, called the Sphero Peacekeeper Edition. It weighs in at a whopping 150 pounds, and measures 3 feet in diameter. And it’s totally a prank. Or is it?

Despite the obvious safety concerns, the idea of a 150 pound spherical robot companion sounds great to me. Just imagine how quickly you can clear out those long lines at Walmart. And forget about ever losing a bowling tournament again.

While it’s pretty clear the Sphero Peacekeeper Edition is an April Fool’s prank, I’d still order one if I had $10,000 to spare, and from the looks of things up on their indiegogo campaign, at least one person has actually pledged to buy one.

Some of you may have thought that the (non) news about the U.S. government wisely turning down a petition to use its resources to build a Death Star had reached its conclusion with the Death Star fundraiser. Apparently this space cow has not been Force Milked dry just yet, because now someone’s asking for money to build a fleet of X-Wing fighters.

The representatives of the Rebel Alliance analyzed their enemy’s plans and have set up several effective countermeasures. For instance, they are merely asking for $11,000,000, way less than the $31.4M target fund for the Death Star. And whereas the Sith supporters only had a drawing of a circle – albeit, a well drawn one –  as their initial design, the Rebel Alliance used the power of the Force Google and posted this on their project page:

If that’s not enough to persuade you to donate to the light side, the Rebels have also indicated a desire to build a heavily modified YT-1300 Freighter:

The Rebels are also offering lightsaber construction classes to people who pledge $5,000 and a Jedi training camp to rich padawans who can pledge at least $10,000. I say we start a Kickstarter to help start an organization that prevents people from using Kickstarter for their jokes. Then let’s start another one that calls that other Kickstarter a buzzkill. Plot twist: we’ll only ask for $500 for each fundraiser, then we’ll split the cash and vanish. Jokes on you, backers!

[via Kickstarter via Inquisitr]

If you share the same name as Redditor CasinoRoy, then chances are you’ve already been pranked by him. You see, what he does is search for people who share his name (“Ryan Roy”) on Facebook. After checking out the profile photo of his would-be targets, he re-does their picture and copies their hair, clothes, poses, and location.

Then he uploads it to his own profile and sends his same-name counterpart a friend request. Everything sounds pretty funny to the rest of us, but I think it’s safe to assume that those who got his friend requests were beyond creeped out.

According to Roy, the reactions he got were mostly along the lines of “What the hell?” or “Who the f*ck are you?”

[Reddit via Sad & Useless & Charlie Todd via Laughing Squid]

There are many tools that video editors use to censor out content that’s not supposed to be seen. For example, many cable channels pixelize exposed body parts so that they can air it on TV. People have since moved on to use other forms of censorship, like blurring out the offending parts (or faces).

Taking the pixelization process further and turning it mainstream is the Nudifier app. It promises to let you ‘nudify’ any image you have and transform it into a ‘sexy naked photo.’ In actuality, it simply pixelates the area you choose and nothing more.

The app asks you to choose a skin color and fill in the area that you want to be nudified. Tap the orange button and voila! You’ll have a pixelated and slightly obscene naked picture of anyone that you’ll choose to violate via pixels.

Try it on friends, teachers, and even your pet. Just don’t try it on your mom and dad – I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t want to see them naked, even if it leaves the censored parts to your imagination.

The Nudified app is being offered for free at the iTunes App Store for a limited time.

[via Gadget Review]