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Real Life Emoji Keyboard!

736K views · Sep 21, 2015 · 2:13 · 1 HN recommender · 3 mentions · discussed 2019–2024

Tom Scott shows a full-size real-life emoji keyboard built from 14 keyboards and over 1,000 hand-placed stickers, covering all of Unicode 8.

Why Hacker News points people here: Mentioned as a delightful stunt whenever emoji input or keyboards come up.

“emoji-ized keyboards like Tom Scott did (as a stunt)”HN comment, 2019

What Hacker News said 3

RecommendsjedimastertMay 2020

“it's beautiful.”

Every emoji on 14 keyboards with hand-placed stickers

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Fun AutoHotKey abuse: Tom Scott's emoji keyboard[0]. It's every single emoji (at the time of recording) on 14 full keyboards with 1,000s of hand-placed bespoke stickers. He goes into more detail here[1], but it's beautiful. [0]: this video [1]: link

Cites itchiphSep 2019

“emoji-ized keyboards like Tom Scott did (as a stunt)”

Tom Scott's stunt emoji keyboard built from many keyboards

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So you just litter your desk with about a dozen emoji-ized keyboards like Tom Scott did (as a stunt) this video

in “Why the Emoji Was Inevitable (2017)” · view on HN
Cites itBjartrAug 2024

“There's no* emoji keyboards, but people use emoji all the time.”

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Or if editors swap ***, :fediverse:, etc. for it automatically. There's no* emoji keyboards, but people use emoji all the time. * Well, there is, but there isn't a widely available consumer product this video