We have come across some crazy stuff, but this one is definitely at the top end of the crazy spectrum. A YouTuber named Tom Scott has built a 1,000-key keyboard with each key representing an emoji!
Use of emojis has increased a lot lately in almost all interactions on the web – be it comments or text messages or instant messages or even in tweets – and what could be a better way to get to your emojis directly without having to swipe through different emoji panels? A keyboard with a key marked for each of the top 1,000 emojis in use.
Scott made the emoji keyboard using 14 keyboards and over 1,000 individually placed stickers. While he himself admits that it is one of the craziest things he has built, the work he has put in does warrant appreciation. On the keyboard are individually placed emojis for food items, animals, plants, transport, national flags, and time among others.
The YouTuber has incorporated all emojis from Unicode 8, but has left out the ones proposed in Unicode 9. The keyboard also includes those emojis that have arrived with Apple iOS 9.1 update. Though the emojis will be hard to find, Scott has tried to ease up that bit by categorizing similar emojis on one keyboard making it a little easier for him to find the apt one.
We believe that Scott’s invention is just a part of his desire to build things and that he will not be commercializing the invention. Even if he does, buyers would need a lot of space to actually arrange them before they can start typing away emojis.
Never heard of shift,ctrl,alt? You could have cut down on your keys.
he didn’t even make the keyboards just put stickers on them – color me disappointed!
this is awesome, Tom Scott you win the internet for today
“How do you get to all of your emojis without swiping through panels?” You don’t. You write out complete sentences. Lazy ass &(#*$#…
Because he could, not because it makes sense.
People don’t type Chinese characters using keyboards with thousands of keys. You can enter Japanese text (and emoji) on mobile phones using the 12 standard keys plus four arrow keys to select kanji.
Also, the good thing about software keyboards is that they can be trained to one’s taste and updated with new emoji. Hardware keyboards are static, and with this one in particular you’re forever stuck with the 1000 emojis chosen by the manufacturer.
This contraption is certainly interesting but completely useless.