Real Life Emoji Keyboard!
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.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Mentioned as a delightful stunt whenever emoji input or keyboards come up.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2019, last 2024
What HN commenters said
“it's beautiful.”
Every emoji on 14 keyboards with hand-placed stickers
jedimastert, 2020-05 · Recommendation · in “In Praise of AutoHotKey”
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Topics: emoji, keyboards, tom scott, unicode, hardware hack
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