"Younicorn" Makes Your Photos Unicornier

Check out this unicorn photo app for the iPhone.  Simply take a photo and the app helps you add a magical background and unicorn horn to your subject.  You can use it turn your friends, your dog, your family, or even random strangers into unicorns.  It's so much fun!

Here's a set of examples from mono, the app developer's, web page:

Get the app in the iTunes store, here!

Craft Project: Make Your Own Origami Unicorn

Here's a fun and easy craft project, and all you need is a square of paper. Make your own origami unicorn!

Image credit: photo by the author.

Here's a link to the instructions for the unicorn origami: http://dev.origami.com/images_pdf/unicorn.pdf
Have fun!

"Charlie the Unicorn," A Unicorn-Themed Viral Video

Charlie the Unicorn and his friends became popular when a flash video by the film company, FilmCow, featuring their trip to Candy Mountain went viral on YouTube in 2008.  Over the next two years, two sequels were created, and the videos have entertained tens of thousands of viewers.  More recently, FilmCow created a parody series called "Charlie teh Unicron," which has also been a hit on YouTube.

The films feature a reluctant Charlie the Unicorn and two other unicorns who encourage Charlie to join them in their (mis)adventures.

If you haven't seen Charlie the Unicorn yet, check out the original, below, or the whole series on the FilmCow YouTube channel.

Make Your Correspondence Magical With Unicorn Stationery

Image credit: photograph by the author.

With the holidays just around the corner, chances are you're planning to send cards or letters to friends and family.  

Rather than sending just any old paper and envelope, or reindeer-emblazoned card, send some cheer with unicorn-themed stationery!

We found this awesome Unicorn Wishes stationery, featuring illustrations by Stanley Martucci, at our local bookstore.  You can also find it online at Chronicle Books.

Unicorn Cake Toppers Make Special Occasions Positively Magical

We've all been there before: the unicorn enthusiast in your life has a birthday coming up, is graduating from kindergarten, or just received a job promotion, and you're worried about how to appropriately celebrate such a special occasion.

Well, worry no more, because the Unicorn Daily News has discovered a great product that will make any special occasion positively magical: the Unicorn Cake Topper!

Image credit: author's own photograph.

A Unicorn Cake Topper can instantly turn any run-of-the-mill cake into a beautiful unicorn masterpiece, and it's as easy as baking a cake (or purchasing one from your local bakery). You can purchase the unicorn cake toppers shown above, as well as lots of other unicorn-themed party supplies, from BirthdayExpress.com.

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Honorary Unicorn: The Majestic Narwhal

While there is much debate over the existence of the unicorns described in accounts of natural history and mythology dating back over 2,000 years, one thing is certain: there are many naturally occurring, single-horned animals.

These single-horned animals are known as monocerotes, from the Greek term for unicorn, monoceros, but I like to think of them as "honorary unicorns."

The Unicorn Daily News will occasionally feature one of these honorary unicorns in our daily news bulletins, so make sure to visit often – you don't want to miss out on these amazing creatures!

And now, we present to you, our first featured honorary unicorn: The Majestic Narwhal!

Image credit: National Institute of Standards and Technology (www.nist.gov).

The male narwhal technically does not have a horn, but a very long tooth - 7-10 feet (2-3 meters) in length - that protrudes from its upper jaw. These unicorns of the sea are found in Arctic waters, where they thrive on halibut, shrimp, cod, and squid. The narwhal "horn" does not have magical healing powers, but it is used by male narwhals in displays of dominance to reinforce their social hierarchies. Fascinating!!

Robot Unicorn Attack: The Popular Game Celebrates the Holidays

In early 2010, the Adult Swim Games web site brought us Robot Unicorn Attack, the highly addictive, yet simple, electronic game created by Spiritonin Media Games that has been played over 33 million times by unicorn enthusiasts on the Adult Swim Games web site, facebook, and through an iPhone app.

If you are unfamiliar with Robot Unicorn Attack, the gameplay is simple: the player controls a beautiful robotic unicorn running and jumping through a landscape that is populated by rainbows, fairies, and silver stars.  To obtain a high score, the player must capture as many fairies and dash through as many silver stars as possible.  The entire game is set to the enchanting sounds of Erasure's synthpop hit, Always.  A Heavy Metal spinoff version, adapted by Smashing Ideas, Inc., and released in October by Adult Swim Games, replaced the fairies and stars with imps and pentagrams, and has a distinctively heavy metal soundtrack.

These screencaps for the original and heavy metal versions of Robot Unicorn Attack, below, show the simplicity of the game and the differences between the two versions:

Screencaps taken by the blog author; images are copyright of Cartoon Network, Turner Broadcasting System, Spiritonin Games, and Smashing Ideas, Inc.

By now, dear reader, I am sure you are simply dying to test your Robot Unicorn Attack skills!
But, WAIT, there's more!

The kind folks at Adult Swim have released another Robot Unicorn Attack spinoff just in time for the holidays, and this time it is CHRISTMAS-THEMED!  Robot Unicorn Attack Christmas Edition is similar to the previous two versions of the game, except that the player navigates the unicorn through a snow-covered winter wonderland of sparkling lights and peppermint candies to collect gift-wrapped presents and dash through snowflakes. For now, this version is available only through the iPhone app store, where you can get it for just 99 cents!  You can't get much for 99 cents these days, and it's a great bargain for a game that combines the magic of both unicorns and snowflakes!

Here's a screencap from the Robot Unicorn Attack Christmas Edition:

Screencap by the blog author; images copyright of Cartoon Network, Turner Broadcasting System.

It is exciting to see the expansion of the Robot Unicorn Attack empire. The Unicorn Daily News will be following this unicorn-themed game franchise closely, so come back often for updates!