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Smile Efficiently With the Emoticon Keyboard
If the strain of constantly typing emoticons is killing your fingers, and you've been reprimanded at work for typing :-( when you meant :-) the Emoticon Keyboard may be the answer to your prayers. The tiny keyboard connects via USB and ensures you'll never type the wrong emotion again. The only flaw I see is the lack of a giant LOL key.
It's sideways.
Oblig. "There is no emoticon for how I feel right now."
Imagine all the frowns you could trash your opponents with!!!
I went to battle M.C. Escher, but drew a blank.
Emoticon Keyboard: 4chan Edition!
Adds options for "DESU," "op is a fag," and "sauce." Also offers modifiable buttons and built in LOIC launch button. Granted, these aren't really emoticons, but a whole lot better.
Just replace the period with a LOL key LOL
It seems to the new way to end a pointless comment post these days LOL
This device reminds me of that top 10 quote over at bash. I want to stab someone over the internet for making this. However I have taken the time to create an installation manual to go be shipped with the device: 1) Place your computer back in box. 2) Return to POS.
It could be useful for RTS, the buttons could be programmed to match the buttons as they appear on the screen (the buttons on the bottom right on the screen).
Of course, you'd have to put stickers on the keys. And you'd still lack the groups keys.
A keyboard to replace, a keyboard. Novel.
No. I don't like smiling.
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nor in the format that I use most. I typically type a smiley as :-)
But it only has :)
Which, personally, I don't like. Maybe it's configurable/programmable. In which case, the boss needs to take care he doesn't piss his programmers off...
Rihgt, becuase wierd keybaords aer imune too tpyos?
This looks like a good college or hobbiest project using a microcontroller to practice simple USB HID design. Would be a good Science Fair project too if dad helped. Hmmmmm....
Better known as 318230.
I couldn't really justify buying this... I could get a much more efficient emoticon keys with some simple macros, and never moving my hands from my proper keyboard.
The Internet has given stupid people the resources of intelligent people.
... with all the graphical emoticons out there these days, it will still look wrong on most people's screens.
We need a Get Off of My Lawn version of this thing.
I notice the posting infringes on not just one but two copyrights owned by the Emoticon Keyboard (tm)!
...has just been given more padding and legitimacy?
What's next, someone invents a way to post on Facebook with crayons?
...but God help us all.
The world is how you make it
The :) and :( characters, arguably the most frequently used, are not on the home row. Think of all that extra finger movement. Your EPM (emoticon per minute) score will suffer as a result.
I like my smileys with a nose. Can you configure that?
How does this prevent me from typing :-( instead of :-)? Is it impossible to hit to wrong key on this keypad?
Now people are too lazy to type emoticons, which are used by people who are too lazy to express their emotion with words.
Efficiency is one thing, but now laziness is more efficient? But how much more efficient can it be? Instead of typing two characters, you've got to take your hand off the keyboard, locate the specific emoticon button and press it, then return your hand to the keyboard.
Maybe it's not for efficient laziness, maybe it's for stupidity and lack of creativity. I remember when emoticons were emerging and seldom used - back in the BBS/pre-Internet days, back when people who used computers weren't stupid.
"Lame" - Galaxar
Many phones with touchscreen keyboards have an emoticon keyboard along with the phone-style keypad and qwerty. Many simply with buttons have emoticons on autocomplete or under symbols options. This is simply an upscale. I can't find the source (TFA gives barely any details) but if this is a student project, I like. It would actually sell well. If this is a commercial product, oh god no. Yes, it will sell well, yes.
Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays. :(
How about a LOL, WTF, BFF, /b/ and OMG buttons while you're at it?
... it doesn't do (.)(.) or ()*()
Harumph
America, Home of the Brave.
This product was not meant to be bought for people to use for themselves. This was meant to be bought as a gift for others! Think about it...the recipient opens the present, it's this LOL keyboard thing, everyone laughs, you get off the hook for buying something, and the thing gets discarded after two days of use because it's hogging a USB slot. TFA is slashdotted but if the price is $12-20 then it's prime gift category, because people will spend that much.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
You know, you could have spared us the inefficiency of reading all of your ranting, and simply condensed what you had to say down to its crucial emoticon essence:
:'(
although I can't get the link to the supposed creators to work.
If I rotate this emoticon keyboard 180 degrees, will it type (: instead of :) ? Grandma's gonna try that, you know. :P
(or did I mean d: ?)
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
LOL ROTFL *cough*
It wasn't on the keyboard.
I thought a button would light up to show me how to feel :(
What we need is a webcam that reads your face expression and translates it into an emoticon, now that would be a marvelous time saver. Think I will go to the patent bureau right away and wait until someone implements it to cash in ! $-)
I don't have an intelligent phone, so I need to be.
This would be useful if they had the harder-to-type emoticons that use keys not already on your keyboard...especially the foreign ones.
(^^)
See here for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons (some are even triple lined, etc...)
I'm sure you can program more in....right?
Talk about utterly pointless technology. If I post a smiley from this keyboard on to Facebook, will the comment have a tag underneath it saying "via Emoticon Keyboard"?
I use it to bug the shit out of people. There's nothing quite as irritating as a dozen smiley icons in a row.
I'm a bit disappointed by the scope of this keyboard, particularly as Western emoticon culture and ASCII art is lagging sorely behind emoji and SHIFT-JIS.
The appropriate condensation of his post is:
QQ
Peter Gibbons: Let me ask you something. When you come in on monday and you're not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you, "Sounds like someone has a case of the mondays?"
Lawrence: No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.
...because it's the American way!
What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
What's the emoticon for the smallest violin in the world?
I just did that, and now my code won't compile :(
error: ‘aLOLpush_back’ was not declared in this scope
Well first off, this is not real.
The article even says it's a prototype. So it doesn't even work.
If you look close enough you realize it's 16 golf balls with emoticons drawn on with a Sharpy. If you don't believe compare the distance between the dots of the colons, and compare the two 8's.
Get back to use when it's a real product boys, not some half baked idea you got had while you were drunk and stoned.
Which is faster? Typing an emoticon by "muscle memory" on good ol' QWERTY or learning a new keypad layout with no real logic?
I deal with mostly ASCII text, and sideways give me a crick in the neck. (T_T)
Now, If they really wanted to impress me I would be able to print my own keycaps, and customize the scancodes the keys generate! (^_^)
Until then, that keypad, it's.. just...so.... (-_-) .zZZ
to this question
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I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
Now people are too lazy to type emoticons, which are used by people who are too lazy to express their emotion with words.
The same could be said of vocal intonation. People speaking to one another are far too lazy to speak in an inscrutable monotone and meticulously clarify the emotional context of every comment they make. (Note that this is meant sarcastically)
It's a tool to help bring text messaging into greater parity with spoken conversation. It's a *good* thing.
#={=/=}
Best I can do.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
:-(
;-)
:-|
:D
:-)
The Emoticon Keyboard is the only keyboard I need.
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I could write a freeware program to do this in about an hour max.
If you really want to simplify keyboard use for common patterns, get the Microsoft Keyboard
Table-ized A.I.
IMO it's not so much about laziness. Just another piece of mildly cute, useless, earth-polluting gadget for people to waste their money on.
"I remember when emoticons were emerging and seldom used - back in the BBS/pre-Internet days, back when people who used computers weren't stupid."
Yes, back in the day it was more like writing letters, totally different from today's instant messaging, or /. type of fast-food commenting on things. Much of the interaction in Internet resembles real conversation, expect there's no way of expressing emotions, tone of voice, facial expressions that, as we know, is an important factor of face to face discussion. Otherwise these emoticons would never been invented. There's no reward in taking time to write lenghty, well-thought responses to circumvent need for smileys. For example this point Im trying to make here is total waste of time, cos none will even read this. :(
Now I don't have to edit the URL every time I want to read an Idle story. It took them how many years to fix this???
This is actually a good idea ...... I wonder why it made idle. Since we are in a world of social networking, why not a social keyboard?