We’ve seen a lot of silly mobile apps emerge in our time on the tech beat. But here’s one that certainly caught our eye, or should we say our entire head.

Seattle startup L4 Mobile has partnered with the folks at the TV show Futurama to create an iPhone app that allows you to display an animated headshot of yourself in a jar.

“You can share your heads on Facebook and Twitter or save them to your phone as a background,” according to a description of the app. “You can even create and share collections of heads in your own personal Head Museum, populated with Futurama versions of your family, friends, or fellow inmates.”

Kind of weird, huh?

Well, Futurama does come from the mind of Matt Groening, the Portland-born cartoonist who attended Evergreen State College in Olympia.

L4 has some other high-profile mobile apps that it has built for media companies, including apps for MTV News and VH1’s I Love the 80s. It also helped create an app for the South Beach Diet and grocery story chain Meijer.

But this is its first head-in-a-jar app.

L4 was founded by mobile veterans Brandon Albers, Bruce James and Keith O’Neill.

O’Neill previously worked at Icebreaker and UI Evolution. James held leadership roles at SnapIN Software, and Albers managed application development for Action Engine.

 

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