Gadgetory

new emoji icons are on the horizon and the internet is getting way too giddy just think about all the new ways to throw shade with a smiley face later this year we could be telling friends to shut up with a smile or share a spew with disgust question logic with a co bare brow or get offended with a fancy monocle but none of this is official yet you see in June a new batch of emoji are said to be approved by the Unicode consortium that's the governing body of the emoji world and more than 50 of these are currently being proposed including some fantastical ones like merpeople fairies vampires and elves hello Legolas the folks at emoji pedia stirred up all the excitement by making some sample art of what these icons could look like and once approved tech companies like Apple and Google have to make their own art and add the emoji to their various platforms and only until that happens will we get to send dinosaurs hedgehogs orange hearts and get naked with a spoon yeah that's supposed to be a sauna people emojis may also better represent different people in the list is a woman with a job a bearded man gender-neutral adults and even a breastfeeding mama but it's not until June that these will even be given the green light and it'll be even longer before it hits your keyboard I know you want to use that curling stone now but you'll just have to wait I'm Bridget Carey for the latest tech news head to cnet.com