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April Fool's Day may be on a Sunday this year, but these gadgets and pranks will have you annoying your peers in the office all year long.

Now you can add some character to your lifeless plasma display by having one custom built in an waterfall fountain.

These are one off designs by Astute Advance Contemporary Products. The plasma models are primarily marketed to businesses for decoration or to draw attention to their display in a crowded convention center.

For those people who are looking for a conversation piece, this may work for them as well. I assume you would need a boatload of cash, but if you have it flaunt it. While you’re at it, let me know how I can get in on that gravy train.

TekkaDon writes "According to computer and component manufacturers, Vista is not the hotcake that they were hoping for. Take Acer's president, Gianfranco Lanci, who has just said that 'PC makers are really not counting on Vista to drive high demands for the industry.' Or Samsung Electronics, who now says that DRAM demand has not matched anyone's predictions based on Vista's now failed projections, something that is being echoed by the industry as a whole. This seem to agree with Ars Technica article on the 20 million Vista copies sold as a 'huge success' by Microsoft, which can be accounted for by the natural growth of PC sales over the years."

There's little doubt Vista is the most secure version of Windows, even as new vulnerabilities surface. When we talk about security in Windows we usually mean what Microsoft is doing—or not doing—to keep us safe. But it's also true that Microsoft intends to vigorously safeguard its own interests. That means Vista will also be the hardest to pirate.

Forget about all the other "HDR" images and see New York like you've never seen it before.