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December 23, 2014 Rhett Jones

Floppy Cloud lets you play NES and Super Nintendo game Roms on your iPhone by cleverly disguising itself as file managing app. Normally apps like this are prohibited on the Apple’s products and services so expect this to be available for oh say … download it now! It seriously won’t last long. All you have to […]

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August 13, 2014 Marina Galperina

In Florida, Pedro Bravo is standing trial for the murder of former friend Christian Aguilar, who had started dating his ex-girlfriend. After missing for weeks, his body was found buried in a shallow grave in Levy Country. According to the Gainesville Sun and Palm Beach Report, on September 20, 2012 — the day the victim disappeared — the accused told iPhone’s Siri “I need to […]

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June 20, 2014 Sophie Weiner

Yesterday, Hi-Art released their new iPhone app allowing you to send tons of digital stickers (similar to emojis) designed by artists like CLAW and Ron English in iMessage conversations. Some of these stickers are pretty sick, specifically those designed by legendary Wu-Tang member Ghostface Killah. His designs include references to classic Wu-Tang songs like C.R.E.A.M., […]

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January 2, 2014 Michael Rougeau

ANIMAL’s feature Game Plan asks video game developers to share a bit about their process and some working images from the creation of a recent game. This week, we spoke with David Carson and Nate Cepis about Proust, a social game developed by Mother, ANIMAL’s parent company. There’s something irresistible about a game of “fuck, […]

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September 19, 2013 Nate Cepis

News Vines is ANIMAL’s reoccurring series in which we retell current events in six-seconds or less. There’s something about phones and video games in the news today. […]

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September 17, 2013 Marina Galperina

“We have something for you. You’re going to like it.” “What is it?… Oh? Oh!!! Uh oh.” When new media artist James George and tech-savvy photographer Alexander Porter popped the tiny appendage on my iPhone a few months ago for a test drive, I knew I was going to have too much fun with it. The #slyPhone is a single-mirror laser […]

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Kyle Chayka

Have you heard? A gold iPhone coming out soon and people are freaking out. Apple re-re-re-re-release improvements may be incremental, but Apple fans enamored with the device are already searching high and low for the quickest to get their hands on the exclusive new upgrade. You’re in luck! Thanks to 3D-printing and F.A.T. lab’s Addie Wagenknecht, you don’t […]

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August 6, 2013 Kyle Chayka

Yesterday, the new photography app Belowrez became available. At this point many of our beloved photography apps have become a dime-a-dozen sort of ordeal,  offering little more than the option to make your photographs look like they were taken with a terrible camera, perhaps underwater, or quite possibly taken in a different century altogether. Now is the right […]

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May 23, 2013 Marina Galperina

Do you have a dumbphone, but still want to access internet things? Welcome to The Dumb Store. A project by Allison Burtch and Ramsey Nasser, just premiered week at the ITP graduate program showcase in Tisch. “We think that information should be available to everyone, irrespective of the hardware or software they have,” Burtch tells ANIMAL. The Dumb Store is truly a platform for everyone: […]

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April 11, 2013 Kyle Chayka

This weekend, retired porn Jenna Jameson used her “brass knuckles” iPhone case as actual brass knuckles to beat up her assistant. The Orange county district attorney has declined to prosecute Jameson, yet her assistant Markham is now currently pursuing a restraining order against her employer. The cases have previously been banned from eBay due to their use as a weapon […]

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