In a similar vein, Gifpop will allow users to upload their own GIFs (or a Vine or Instagram video) through a Web interface and choose 10 frames to be printed through an old technology known as ...

The GIF is old technology, it's digital and it's already making a comeback. Allan Hoffman may be reached via his website, allanhoffman.com.

Buzzfeed has bestowed a new kind of GIF upon the Internet that they claim puts the site "at the very top of the GIF game." Is this new technology really an evolution? They call it the Rubbable GIF ...

Giphy, the creators of the GIF search engine, have created a work-around that promises to bring the animated file format to the social network but fails to deliver.  ...

Facebook is betting on the potency of GIFs by acquiring Giphy, whose technology will be integrated into Instagram, which Facebook acquired in 2012. The price was reported by multiple media outlets ...

The 9 Best Technology GIFs of 2016 It’s time to recognize the trusty sidekicks to this year’s important stories, without which, technology news would be a whole lot less mesmerizing.

While the brief animations are not new — GIFs were created in 1987 by Steve Wilhite, a programmer at CompuServe, and have been omnipresent on desktops — major improvements in mobile technology ...

Animated gifs are a mainstay of Internet culture, first rising to prominence back in the 1990s, and still populating forums, blogs, and Tumblrs. Gifs play like short, silent video clips, but the ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? If the monks who crafted illuminated manuscripts had access to gif technology ...

We collected the most mesmerizing short clips about emerging technology from MIT Technology Review stories during 2015.

Tell us how you used a GIF to convey your emotions in an email, text or on social media, and why that moment stands out. It can be funny, serious, sarcastic or sad.