Brooklyn’s competitive advantage is interesting people doing cool things. Well, 2016 did not disappoint for weird shit Brooklynites made with new technology. In fact, it was as strong a year as ever there was. Some of it was artistic, some of it functional. All of it unusual. Let’s take a look.
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Experience yourself as a mosaic of Santa emojis
Prayer hands emoji to Zack Schwartz for taking whatever amount of time from his life necessary to bring this into the world.
A thing that rules: The Animated Advice Hotline
Ask Cat Frazier a question. She’ll respond to you with a custom gif. Hell yeah.
Smell Dating is the anti-software dating app from Useless Press
People really signed up for this (mostly journalists, ugh).
Just go ahead and turn all the GIFs online into sexy Edward Snowden
Ed Snowden is babe alert goals, apparently.
Simulate petting an unfamiliar cat with this furry bit of technology
Nicole He is the best part of Brooklyn. Vote for her for Artist of the Year in our Brooklyn Innovation Awards here if you agree.
Brooklyn’s new tech trend is making Twitters for your house plants
House plant Twitter. So Brooklyn.
Tweet the NY Public Library an emoji and it’ll tweet back a pic from its archives
This was one of our most-shared stories of the year. You never know, man.
With this new app you’ll never send a boring emoji again
More A1 emoji content.
Install an airhorn on your laptop’s ~ key. Why not?
Good point, headline. This was made by a poet.
