CheckMag | 7 of the best April Fools' tech gags from 2025, including Casio’s Tamagotchi and Razer’s Skibidi headset

Nearly every year, tech brands try to outdo each other with April Fools' Day jokes, and 2025 was no exception. The ideas were just as absurd as they were entertaining, and some of them were surprisingly well-executed. Let's take a look at seven of the best April Fools' Day gags from this year.

• Zotac kicked things off with a fragrance line - scent-changing perfumes that shift depending on how intense your gameplay is. Quoting their very own promo, the “Zotac Gaming Scent Changing Fragrance Collection” helps gamers smell their victory - literally. No word on whether thermal paste notes are included.
  

• Oppo showcased a fun phone with a bizarre new form factor - a cube-shaped smartphone called the Oppo X³. Shaped like a literal cube with touchscreens on every side, it looks more like a Rubik’s Cube than a phone. The tagline? “Think inside the box.” That about sums it up.
  

• Red Magic took its gaming obsession to the park (pun intended) by launching a “professional” gaming frisbee. The Red Magic Frisbee "comes" with specs like Zero-Latency Air Glide and a 1000Hz Spin Rate. According to the promo, this is what happens when you optimize a toy like it's a flagship phone. Also, this is the only product on this list that will actually be shipped out to a total of three fans.
  

• Casio tapped more of a nostalgic nerve this year, and yes, it includes Tamagotchis. Its G-Shock account teased the “E-Shock (or Egg-Shock),” which is simply a digital pet baked into the watch itself. You have to feed it, clean up after it, and remember to charge it, all while checking the time.
  

• Nothing also joined the chaos with a callback to wired audio. They announced the “Ear (3.5mm),” a pair of earbuds connected by a 50-meter-long cable. Marketed as “beautifully inconvenient,” the product is supposed to bring the range of Bluetooth with the freedom of having your earphones stuck under doors and furniture again.
  

• This right here is a little unexpected, but nonetheless interesting. The Royal Albert Hall in London announced a musical performance built entirely around the iconic Nokia 3310. This included orchestral renditions of its iconic ringtones and even large-scale audience games of Snake II. Funny enough, the event comes with a promise of taking the audience on a “vibrational journey through mobile history.” Whether that's exciting or terrifying depends on your relationship with polyphonic tones.
  

• Finally, Razer, one of the biggest gaming peripherals manufacturers in the industry, couldn’t resist poking fun at Gen Alpha slang with its prank headset, the Skibidi. The headset is meant to translate Gen Alpha phrases into real language so you can understand what your little cousin just said in Fortnite. It uses AI, of course. Because of course it does.
  

If these pranks show anything, it’s that tech brands still enjoy experimenting on paper - even if it means designing a cube phone or adding a 50-meter cable to a pair of earbuds.