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Google Japan · 710K views · 2024-10-01 · 2:21

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Overview

A short Google Japan promotional video, in Japanese, for Gboard Double-Sided, a keyboard with no back side that comes in a paper-craft version and a full electronics version. It is a playful April-Fools-style product concept.

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HN mentions it mainly as an example of Google Japan's habit of making joke keyboards, with some complaints that it was misleading.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2024–2025

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GauntletWizard · 2025-10 · Joke / meme

Not only that, but Google Japan has a long history of humorous keyboards, such as the "Double Sided" keyboard: [VIDEO] , the "Single Row" keyboard: [LINK] and the Spoon Bending keyboard: [LINK] It's been their running April Fools joke for years and they've upped the rate to every six months.

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gamedever · 2025-03 · Joke / meme

tangentially, Google Japan makes joke keyboards. Here's their latest [VIDEO] you can see some others here [LINK] They had one with 1000+ keys but I don't see a video for it

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mazsa · 2024-10 · Criticism

This is misleading customers: they are trying to sell a (single-sided) Moebius keyboard as a double-sided one [VIDEO]

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Video by Google Japan, played through YouTube.

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