When we hear from Aviary it’s bound to be something entertaining and fun. The New York based company remains in private beta but adds to its suite of image manipulation products regularly. The newest tool is called Dodo, a web-based time machine.
A video demo is below. You upload an image to the service and it will “age” it based on user input. An example: upload a picture of yourself, tell it how many years out you want it to age you, tell it how much you drink and smoke, and not any planned plastic surgery. It will then show you what it thinks you’ll look like down the road.
Aviary says the tool isn’t just for fun – that it may also be useful for “tracking down long missing children,” and “determining if a girlfriend will end up looking like her mother.” Demo video below.
What’s the technology behind it? Well, it’s pretty close to magic. Anything is possible in early April, it seems.
You put this out a day early Michael!
Hilarious, an app that doesn’t suck!
Got a typo in the Aviary url.
sorry Michael – and the 1st aviary link is wrong – I think you just crashed the servers of some nice bird-fancing people!
Date of the blog article: “April 01, 2008″.
This is pretty nifty
Oh, has anyone heard of this site?
AudacityOfChange.com
we’re covering all the news, even the stuff pre-dated 4/1
Ha Ha, sounds like Michael took the bait.
@7: LOL
Please do everyone a favor and invest in a adequate domain name.
michael nice joke.
Hey, Michael – The first link is pointing to the wrong URL (aviary.com instead of a.viary.com).
You’re putting some poor bird store out of business.
I really hope this is not an April fool’s joke.
This app is amazing, if it’s real.
Endless fun and awesome graphics – loved the video presentation.
Shouldn’t it do it 2ways… forward.. and.. rewind… of time… older or younger…
LOL is Stephen Colbert writing for techcrunch now?
ummm bird supply store?
early april fools i suppose
cool their servers will go nuts come opening day. i cant wait
@16
obviously was wrong link to http://www.aviary.com :->
Your first link in the article is wrong. It is currently aviary.com but should be a.viary.com!
Another company using “magic” or should it be “illusions!?!”
Can’t these Schmucks pick a good domain name. This is so dumb! Spend all these times building an app to promote a pet store-LOL
Is it April already?
Did you seriously bite on this obvious April Fool’s joke?
It’s fun. Great website
Best april fools so far
Winner.
I love you, Aviary.
The Michael Jackson transformation in the vid gave it away
I DONT KNOW WHAT IS REAL ON TC AND WHAT IS AN APRILS JOKE.
carversation – you may have to wait until 4/2 before you be sure.
Michael Jackson XD
Oh and in the last part: “Biblical —————–|- Scientific” XD
This is essential for any one thinking of getting married. See how your possible partner may look like in 10 years time. If you don’t like the results, move on before any damage is done
Irene Green lasers guide
rofl @ jackson, best one i’ve seen so far today.
Eager to know what might be the technology behind this?
Bellur Ashwin – http://people.c...rnet.in/ashwin/
I suspect about the results unless the technology is scientifically proved.
You know, the idea behind April Fools’ Day is not “lie and make it sound true.” With all the automatic photo doctoring that goes on, it’s very easy to build a rudimentary version of “photo time machine.” There already IS software that understands input like “there’s a car in this photo” that also 1) finds the car, 2) removes the car and 3) replaces the with a Flintstonesmobile. Since we already have this technology, it is therefore not funny to lie about such-and-such company releasing the technology. No?
i never watched the vid, and without it it looks sensible. on top of that its still on the site ages later. as said just before, april fools bullsheep is a total waste of time