Tag: AVATAR

Ever wanted an Android robot-style avatar based on your own good looks? Well today's your lucky day! Google's just unleashed their Androidify app on Android Market, ready to turn Mr. Android into your own custom mascot, free to post across the Web. You start with the little green mean-machine as a template, customizing to your heart's content. Add clothes, facial hair, make him short and fat, ...

New Scientist is running a story this morning about immortality -- not the physiological, philosopher's stone variety, though: digital immortality. What if, rather than dying, you could live on... inside a computer? Physically we might die, but if an accurate representation of our brain and all of its associated memories can be recreated inside a digital computer, stored in digital memory, can ...

Some people don't like how they come out in photos. Some just like the"gamer-look", and some online media just work better with avatars (say, forums). The problem with most online tools for creating avatars is that they produce cookie-cutter images. I mean, how many variations of South Park avatars can you have? They all end up pretty similar. Avatara is an avatar creator which does its ...

I'm a huge fan of the AMC TV show Mad Men. My wife and I have gone as far as making ourselves gin martinis to sip while watching the show, though I haven't yet tried an Old Fashioned. If you're as much of a fan of the show as we are, check out AMC's new Mad Men Yourself site. Just like the site that lets you create a South Park character with the distinctive features you choose, Mad Men Yourself ...

Don't you just hate it when you sign up on a forum or blog comment system and everyone has cool avatars, but you don't? If you aren't too picky about it, why not just punch your name into Turn Your Name Into a Face, and let it come up with something for you out of 100,000 possible faces. Now, granted, the options may leave a bit to be desired; they're all black pixel art on a random pale ...

If you've ever thought it would be a good idea to embed a chat widget on your web site, Google has another proposition for you: Why stop there? Why not embed a 3D environment, let users create avatars, decorate a room, and chat with one another? The company has taken the wraps off of Lively, a 3D social networking/chat service that does just that. You can create or join Lively rooms through ...

Voki is a site which allows you to create and personalize avatars with your own voice. You can make your "voki" look like you or choose different characters, animals, monster, anime, etc. After you waste tons of time creating your avatar and making it say ridiculous things, you can then embed the code on your blog or website (we're not saying you should, but it is an option you may want to ...

Second Life, the popular 3-D online virtual community created by Linden Labs, is adding voice to its social grid. In addition to the current IM and chat functions, now Second Life residents will be able to speak to one another if they wish. Amazingly, with the speech technology employed, your little avatar's voice and figure can become animated so you won't sound like a robot or worse, like the ...