Check out this review of Gizmoz on Techcrunch, and also take a look at Eyal’s myspace page.

Generally speaking I’m not a fan of avatars, but this one really is compelling. If you don’t buy compelling you’ll at least agree it is fun.

How long before Fred Wilson is sporting one of these on his blog?

Seems construction of 3d models of faces from 2d pictures is close to becoming mainstream. Polar Rose is doing a similar thing but apparently for face recognition.