For Immediate Release…

Want to Know What Fido is Saying?

(Hollywood, CA) – With the new DoggieTalk iPhone app, dog owners can finally find out what their pooches are saying. Using a patented technology that measures and analyzes a combination of vocalizations, sub-vocalizations, and brain wave patterns, DoggieTalk is able to statistically and accurately perform translations into human language that pet owners can understand.*

As a huge animal-lover myself, this age-old problem always intrigued me,” said Yay Robot owner Charles Horn, the app creator and an Emmy-nominated comedy writer. “I was thrilled with the level of detail we were able to achieve with these translations, such as, ‘Have you seen my bone? I can’t find it anywhere.’ ‘Vacuum cleaners are evil!’ and ‘I will protect you from the mailman.’”

The DoggieTalk app also appears to corroborate the fact that dogs are extremely intelligent animals. Said Charles, “We were absolutely blown away when we saw the translation, ‘The speed of light in a vacuum is a universal constant that can be expressed through the equation –- Wait. Is that a ball?’”

The DoggieTalk app is actually four apps in one – together with the dog translation module, the app also comes with a sound board toy, a laser pointer toy, and a pet profile where emergency numbers can be stored for one-touch dialing.

When asked if there will be a similar translation device for cats, Charles said that KittyTalk is coming soon, adding, “Cats are a lot more sarcastic, so it’s taking a little bit longer to perfect.”

DoggieTalk is available on the iTunes App Store for a limited time at the special introductory price of 99 cents. 10% of developer proceeds of DoggieTalk will be donated to no-kill animal shelters. No animals were harmed in the making of DoggieTalk.

ABOUT YAY ROBOT

Yay Robot is a mobile and Internet entertainment company with a focus on comedy. Products include DoggieTalk and the iHateIt Personal Disapproval Assistant. Yay Robot is owned and operated by Emmy-nominated comedy writer Charles Horn, whose credits include Robot Chicken, Robot Chicken: Star Wars, Pink Panther and Pals, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He is also author of The Laugh Out Loud Guide: Ace the SAT Exam without Boring Yourself to Sleep!

*Non-Factual Statement

DoggieTalk on the App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/doggietalk/id382865182?mt=8

DoggieTalk on the web: http://www.yayrobot.com/products/doggietalk/

That was the last of the Comic-Con photos. See you next year.

Now back to iPhone Apps!

iHateIt gets covered by LA TImes!

Passive aggression in app form

See the app in action: http://www.youtube.com/user/YayRobotDotCom

Get it now on the App Store! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ihateit-personal-disapproval/id366610453?mt=8

RadarOnline loves iHateIt and lists it in their “Gimmie” section!

Want To Tell Your Boss Off?  There’s An App For That

See the app in action: http://www.youtube.com/user/YayRobotDotCom

Get it now on the App Store! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ihateit-personal-disapproval/id366610453?mt=8

iHateIt gets covered by USA TODAY!

You gotta problem? There’s an iPhone app for that

See the app in action: http://www.youtube.com/user/YayRobotDotCom

Get it now on the App Store! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ihateit-personal-disapproval/id366610453?mt=8

For Immediate Release…

Need To Vent? There’s An App For That.

(HOLLYWOOD, CA) – Imagine telling your jerk boss that you hate his idea, or screaming at a boring person at a party to shut up, or making pig noises when your girlfriend keeps pestering you asking if she looks fat, or telling a teacher who’s picking on you to “bite me.” And imagine doing it all in the funniest way possible.

If you have the guts, that is exactly the sort of fun you can have with the new iHateIt Personal Disapproval Assistant iPhone app by Yay Robot.

“I was aiming for the feel of a talking keychain toy,” says Yay Robot owner Charles Horn, the app creator and an Emmy-nominated comedy writer (Robot Chicken). “Where friends can have endless fun zinging each other with snarky sounds and phrases. Except I wanted to have way more sounds, grouped in themed pages, that you could easily slide in and out as needed.”

The app comes with five sound pages and twelve sound buttons per page. The themes are: iHateIt, Bombs Away, Shut Up, All-Naturally Annoying, and Snark & Stuff. The app also contains a page where you can record and re-record your own sounds over and over again.

This is the first app released by Yay Robot, although owner Charles Horn previously created the Comedy Vocab vocabulary builder app through his other company Learning is Funny.

“My previous apps were in the educational comedy and games field,” said Charles. “I just wanted to have some pure fun this time.”

iHateIt is available on the iTunes App Store for a starting price of 99 cents. There’s even a web series where you can see it in action.

iTunes App Store Link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ihateit-personal-disapproval/id366610453?mt=8

See it in action: http://www.youtube.com/user/YayRobotDotCom

ABOUT YAY ROBOT

Yay Robot is a mobile and Internet entertainment company with a focus on comedy. Products include the iHateIt iPhone app and the online comic strip Random Walk.

ABOUT CHARLES HORN

Charles Horn is an Emmy-nominated comedy writer with credits including Robot Chicken, Robot Chicken: Star Wars, Pink Panther and Pals, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He is also author of The Laugh Out Loud Guide: Ace the SAT Exam without Boring Yourself to Sleep!

So we’ve finally decided to move to Wordpress, using the Comicpress theme.  This way, the blog and comics can be incorporated together in a seamless manner.  Also, people can now for the first time comment on the comics.

We might still be making tweaks here and there, so don’t be alarmed if we’re playing around with the look and feel of the site for a bit.

Also, please update any links to our comics.  The links have changed.  The old links will stay up for a bit, but please update them if you can.  Oh, and update your subscriber feed.

Finally, we’re still looking for a second artist to get involved, so if you’re interested or know someone who is, please get in touch.

Anyway, thanks for visiting.  Hope you enjoy!

Check out our new comic, now in color!

I was recently asked if the name of my comics website Yay Robot refers to Robot Chicken.

The answer is no.  I did work as a writer on Robot Chicken, and was even just up for an Emmy award for writing on the show — and I’m very proud of both of those facts — but this website is not associated with the show and has nothing to do with the show.  We simply have the word “Robot” in common.

As some of you probably know, finding a name for a website is difficult because so many good names are already taken.  I was looking for a name that was funny, easy to remember, wasn’t already taken, and had potential in terms of a logo or character.  Some (bad) examples of rejected names included Good Lemur, Funny Sherpa, and I Heart Bagels.  There are a bunch more better ones as well, which I’d rather not list because I might use them someday.

Ultimately I liked how easy yayrobot was to type and to remember, and I also had a concept of a heroic robot that I developed.  Coincidentally, Marc Stoksik, the artist on the two comic strips, had been independently drawing pictures of a heroic robot figure.  We put the two together and used those drawings as the Yay Robot robot character.  So it turns out that a closer comparison would be to J.J. Abrams’ production company name — Bad Robot.  Boy, these robots are popular, huh!

On a related note, the name Celebrity Rocket, which is the name of my online t-shirt store, is also the name of a Robot Chicken episode.  Now that isn’t an accident.  I had already started my t-shirt store prior to working on the show, and when they gave me a chance to name one of the episodes, I chose to give it that name as well — partially because the name had relevance to me at that moment, and partially because I was curious to see if having an episode with the same name would lead to an increased exposure for the t-shirt store.  It hasn’t really panned out that way so far. Although there are a number of popular selling t-shirts on the site, it doesn’t appear that many people are coming to the t-shirt store via the episode name.

Anyway, hope that answers the question.