250 new emojis coming soon: Flip off your friends with a virtual middle finger

Messaging fiends will be happy to know that a fresh batch of emojis are now on their way.   The Unicode Consortium has announced that version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard will be available soon, most likely next month, and it will be bringing a slew of much-demanded emojis to the table.   The latest version is expected to add 2,834 new characters, approximately 250 emoji, new currency symbols for the Russian ruble and Azerbaijani manat, 23 new lesser-used and historic scripts and some more symbols. Among the list of 250 emojis, there are some interesting additions such as the middle finger, shopping bags, a clamshell phone (presumably to make fun of that one friend), a reminder ribbon and world map.   Yes, you heard it right, the emojis list will include the symbol of a ‘reversed hand with middle finger extended’.  So the next time your friend is being annoying, you could just flip them off instead of typing out abuses.   The list also includes some other ’now-vintage’ emojis like the good old floppy disk and a tape cartridge. The new list includes a slew of computer-related peripherals like the hard disk, a wired keyboard, an old personal computer, a CD, a printer, monitor, mouse and more.   Click here to see the complete list of emojis on Emojipedia and also a mock-up of the middle finger emoji.