Digital Smarts - How Those Emojis Make it on to Your Phone

Have you ever wondered how certain emojis have made it on to your phone and others just don’t seem to be there… or not yet, anyway? It turns out that an organization called the Unicode Consortium is responsible for choosing those pictographs, and a new batch are up for approval next spring. The deciding group includes executives from Apple, Google, Facebook and other technology giants. Some people think emojis might someday turn into a language of their own.