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Real Life Emoji Keyboard!

Real Life Emoji Keyboard! on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2019–2024.

Tom Scott

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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 recommends it

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

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“emoji-ized keyboards like Tom Scott did (as a stunt)”
— chiph, Sep 2019, in “Why the Emoji Was Inevitable (2017)”

What HN commenters said

3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

jedimastertMay 2020Recommends

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]

in “In Praise of AutoHotKey” · View on HN

BjartrAug 2024Cites it

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

in “A symbol for the Fediverse” · View on HN

chiphSep 2019Cites it

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

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