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Dayton native makes hit head in a jar app
You can make your very own “Futurama” head in a jar app thanks partly to a graduate of Dayton’s Hillel Academy.
Stephen Levinson, a producer in Comedy Central’s mobile department, helped develop The Futurama Head-in-a-Jar Creator.
It allows users to create a head in a jar on their iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
The head can be displayed in a “museum,” emailed, added to a contact or shared on the Facebook or Twitter. Features ranging from giant cyclops eye to robot antenna can be added to the head.
Futurama is an animated, science fiction sitcom that appears on Comedy Central. The heads of historical figures frozen by cryogenics often appear on the show.
The show’s creator Matt Groening and executive producer David X. Cohen introduced the head in a jar app at this year’s Comic-Con in July
“I’ve been a fan of the show for a long time, and it was a thrill to work so closely with them on this app,” Levinson, the son of Dayton Daily News writer Meredith Moss and her husband Jim Levinson, said via email.
The head in a jar app has already received more than half million downloads and has reached the top 5 free apps in iTunes app store.
Levinson was raised in the Dayton View neighborhood currently lives in Brooklyn New York with his wife.
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By Joan Eisenstodt
August 22, 2011 3:59 PM | Link to this
Well, of course I love it! It’s Stephen’s!