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Real Life Emoji Keyboard!

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

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.

“emoji-ized keyboards like Tom Scott did (as a stunt)” (HN, 2019)

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@jedimastert May 2020 Recommends
on HN thread 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]
Every emoji on 14 keyboards with hand-placed stickers

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@chiph Sep 2019 Cites it
on HN thread 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]
Tom Scott's stunt emoji keyboard built from many keyboards
@Bjartr Aug 2024 Cites it
on HN thread 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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