Kawaii Twikao Turns Your Face Into An Emoticon
Over on JapanTrends I came across Twikao, an iPhone app that turns your face into an emoticon or kaomoji. You simply take a photo of your own face and let the app do the rest. It’s a little wacky, but its undeniably creative.
The app is only able to detect human faces, because I tried it on my dog (as ya’ do) and an Angry Bird plush toy, but it doesn’t seem to work. There isn’t any business model except advertising for now.
Emoticons are popular in Japan, so it will be interesting to see how many people start playing with it. In the past we have also written about KakaoTalk, a Whatsapp-like service but with really cute emoticons — it is popular among Japanese and Koreans. Facebook could really use this service too if it were incorporated within its service.
Head over here to download the app for free (iTunes link).