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Now basically ubiquitous, emoji started off in 1999. But the roots of the pictographic communications system go back much further… Continue reading Where Emoji Came From, and Why They’re Everywhere Now
The latest wearable from MIT’s Fluid Interfaces group wants to write information on your body movements. Continue reading Wave Emojis at Your Friends with Velcro LEDs
Unicode has been moving to make emojis more diverse and inclusive. Continue reading A Teen Proposed a Hijab Emoji Because She Just Wanted One that Looked Like Her
One emoji spell is used to destroy the capitalist state and usher in the era of gay space communism. Continue reading I Used Emoji Spellcasting to Prevent a Hangover
Paul D. Hunt of Adobe talks about emoji diversity and more. Continue reading We Talked to a Typeface Designer About Creating Emojis for Unicode
It’s not the burrito emoji. Continue reading What’s the Most ‘Expensive’ Emoji, According to Venmo
Emoji are all fun and games until they cause software problems. Continue reading Here’s Why Emoji Can Break Apps
A new emoji library for Facebook Messenger bridges iOS and Android. The post Facebook Messenger Finally Bridges the Great Emoji Divide appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Facebook Messenger Finally Bridges the Great Emoji Divide
The definitive, arbitrary ranking of the latest additions to our pictorial vocabularies. Continue reading The 72 New Emoji, Ranked
In essence, we’re watching the birth of a new type of language. Emoji assist in a peculiarly modern task: conveying emotional nuance in short utterances. The post The Emoji Is the Birth of a New Type of Language (👈 No Joke) appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading The Emoji Is the Birth of a New Type of Language (👈 No Joke)