San Francisco Teen's 'Emojis With Sound' Idea Becomes An App
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- A Bay Area teen recently grew bored of texting her friends grumpy faces and birthday cake emojis and decided her messages would be jazzier with sound.
Mercer Henderson is just your typical 13-year-old girl. Except she may have changed the face of the faces of emojis.
While sending those little symbols lots of people use while texting -- like she does a lot to pals Louise and Ella -- she came up with what turned out to be a pretty sound idea.
"It's an emoji with sound you can send to your family and friends!" enthused Mercer.
It is one of those ideas that is so simple, you wonder why no one had come up with it before.
"My friends and I love to send emojis and to make really weird sounds," Mercer explained. "I thought, 'Why not put the two together?'"
The app is now available for download from Apple in the company's iTunes store.
Mercer had the concept, but making an app was alien to her. So her mother, Lisa Henderson, got in touch with some friends.
"I reached out to some friends in the app engineering world and audio world, and we were able to get them to bring it to life," the proud mother said.
The app is called Audiots -- "Audio" with a "ts" at the end.
While it is not a cash cow yet, it might become one.
"Right now we're not making any money with it, . But in the future, I hope we can donate it to the SPCA, AIDS research, and breast cancer."
Remember Audiots and the name Mercer Henderson; you may be hearing a lot from both of them in the future.