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    Real Life Emoji Keyboard!

    Tom Scott

    1 HN recommender · recommended in 3 months, 2019–2024

    YouTube

    2:13 · 735K views · Sep 21, 2015

    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.

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

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @jedimastertMay 2020· in “In Praise of AutoHotKey”

      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]

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    2. @BjartrAug 2024· in “A symbol for the Fediverse”

      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

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    3. @chiphSep 2019· in “Why the Emoji Was Inevitable (2017)”

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

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