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Real Life Emoji Keyboard!

Tom Scott · 735.5K views · 2015-09-21 · 2:13

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Overview

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.

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Mentioned as a delightful stunt whenever emoji input or keyboards come up.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2019–2024

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jedimastert · 2020-05 · Recommendation

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]: [VIDEO] [1]: [LINK]

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Bjartr · 2024-08 · Reference

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 [VIDEO]

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chiph · 2019-09 · Reference

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

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