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.

Comments

Psst

[The MAZZTer]

It's sideways.

Re:Psst

[h00manist]

It's sideways.

It's a feature. They meant to make it easier to read. Now, is this an actual product or joke? You never know. I think it's really just meant as an autorun patch on your keyboard drivers.

No Emoticon

[delinear]

Oblig. "There is no emoticon for how I feel right now."

Is it compatible with Call of Duty?

[Fibe-Piper]

Imagine all the frowns you could trash your opponents with!!!

Re:Is it compatible with Call of Duty?

[imakemusic]

Epic fr0wnage.

LOL Key

[Anonymous Coward]

Just replace the period with a LOL key LOL

It seems to the new way to end a pointless comment post these days LOL

Re:LOL Key

[An ominous Cow art]

I read comments, posts, chat messages, emails, etc. until I come to the first "lol", or 'chatsp33k' thing, then just skip the rest.

Getting Stabby

[TheBabich]

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.

How

[Nimloth]

How does this prevent me from typing :-( instead of :-)? Is it impossible to hit to wrong key on this keypad?

Nothing new

[a Flatbed Darkly]

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.

Re:Making laziness more efficient, or something el

[Americano]

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:
 
:'(

Re:Making laziness more efficient, or something el

[azgard]

It wasn't on the keyboard.

Re:Webcam emoticon

[tanujt]

What we need is a webcam that reads your face expression and translates it into an emoticon

I doubt anyone is really rolling on the floor laughing, when they claim so online.
The webcam-emoticon reader's most common output would be :-|

Re:Webcam emoticon

[Locke2005]

If you can type reasonably fast then the only time you would need it is when you're typing one-handed... and that's the time you'd be least likely to want other people to know what your facial expression looks like!

Re:Making laziness more efficient, or something el

[Yvan256]

What's the emoticon for the smallest violin in the world?

Um... really?

[epp_b]

Which is faster? Typing an emoticon by "muscle memory" on good ol' QWERTY or learning a new keypad layout with no real logic?