Real Life Emoji Keyboard!
Why Hacker News recommends it
Mentioned as a delightful stunt whenever emoji input or keyboards come up.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2019 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends jedimastert · 2020-05 · on “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]
Cites chiph · 2019-09 · on “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]
Cites Bjartr · 2024-08 · on “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]