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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action Before the internet, there were typewriters. And before typewriters, there were movies. And before movies, there was chewing gum. And before chewing gum, there were only paleolithic caveman. Is this dude a Neanderthal chewing gum in a typewriter movie? Maaaybe.
An email came in the other day from the ninemsn people about emoticonworld.com.au and I kinda brushed it off. Yeah, yeah… emoticons. 10th anniversary of Windows Live… yada, yada. But then last night’s item about emo the meatspace emoticon surfaced and I thought to myself: “Self, a history lesson is in order”.
Emoticons are already pretty annoying, but making a physical emoticon that changes expressions based on emoticons in Windows Live Messenger? That’s really, really annoying. Keep this thing the hell away from me. [Megagadgets via Random Good Stuff]
Developers who’ve either made a dedicated emoji-enabler or included the functionality as a feature in their apps have received notification that they need to stop with this Japanese smiley stuff, like, now.
Jailbreak iPhone users have been able to get Emoji, the Japanese emoticons, on their phones for a while now, but you can now get it even without jailbreaking—albeit a slightly gimped version.
For some reason, Russian entrepreneur and famed sequins underpants collector Oleg Teterin, thinks that he has the right to trademark emoticons. But don’t fret: this brilliant genius will let individuals use :-) for free.
In theory, anti-stress balls help you when you are a bit :-| or XO, because squeezing them helps you release some inner anger and make you bit more :-D. Whatever. I hate these things.
I see this dumbtastic egg-case-style Bajca emoticon keyboard and the only thing I wish is that somebody actually brings it to market, sends it to me to test, and then I get a hammer to smash all those stupid emoticons like it was a Whac-a-Mole game. Maybe it’s just me and you will love its design–which admittedly is pretty but not very useful. That’s until they tell you you can turn the emoticons into jewellery beads.
