Someone once said that a picture is worth a thousand words, so a smiling, yellow face is probably worth at least 160 characters. If you ever found the current run of emoji a little too stifling, some 250 new ones could be en route to help recreate the rest of your favorite album covers. But dont check your Android or iOS device for shiny turds and other icons just yet, because, as The Verge points out, its up to those platforms to implement the Unicode Consortiums new symbols on their own.