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1000-key Emoji Keyboard Is As Crazy As It Sounds
hypnosec writes: A YouTuber named Tom Scott has built a 1,000-key keyboard with each key representing an emoji! 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.
Why? What's there to appreciate? A tremendous waste of time and effort? :)
I appreciate all the free time he has compared to myself.
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Tom's videos on CS subjects are really good too. Check his youtube channel!
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Agreed. At first when I read the title I was thinking Asian languages. But what in the world is this doing on slashdot? A dozen keyboards on a table all hooked up to a laptop, and all to print variations of :) and :( ...
By the time you find the right emoji, you already forgot what you wanted to .... uhm ....
It doesn't have to be like this. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
That's what I was thinking.
Western languages with alphabets around the common 26-letter model construct concepts by grouping letters into words and then words into sentences. Eastern languages with logograms like Hanzi or Kanji can have their logograms 'built' as they can be reduced to a combination of particular strokes that when put together create a specific meaning, so in effect, keyboards for Eastern logograms can be assembled through keystrokes in a fashion similarly to how they're drawn through brush strokes.
This Emoji keyboard is silly, especially as a form of logogram, Emojis only contain so many varieties of each type of characteristic. That's why we used to type them on our keyboards using ASCII or extended ASCII, because we could represent the expression without having to have a specific icon for it.
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The faces on the standard ASCII table serve a very important purpose: to let you know that your C/C++ code is outputting garbage, and you need to check your pointers.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Because that's what you were looking for anyway.
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Which one? U+1F404 or U+1F42E?
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Why? What's there to appreciate? A tremendous waste of time and effort? :)
Why? See, right there you used an emoticon. It took you two whole keystrokes.
Tom could have typed it with one!
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A visual demonstration of the sillyness and pointlessness of emoji.
I've never used one. Why would I? I have words and, on occasion, an old-fashioned ascii smiley :>
(Why the >? Look at the name. That's why.)
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He was so preoccupied with whether or not he could that he didn't stop to think if he should.
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I was thinking he may have actually hacked together a bunch of 104 keys to create a giant 1000 key keyboard. This is boring. It's 14 keyboards plugged into a USB hub, some "fancy software", and key mapping.
But it would have taken him ten minutes to find the key.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
Which is true, if you're limiting yourself to Western European languages. If you limit yourself to English, you can get rid of silly accented characters too.
The reason for the Emoji entering our lives really stems from Apple trying to be universal. The history of Emoji is that it comes from Japan, as Japanese carriers sought to differentiate themselves by adding little pictograms. Of course, Apple had to bring their iPhone to Japan, which mean Apple needed to support Emoji as well (and for a little while, the Emoji keyboard was Japan-only)
Emoji really entered our space when it was discovered that we can't represent Japanese text with Emoji in Unicode. It was not possible to convert because Unicode was lacking the Emoji codepoints to which you could convert to.
Which is why Unicode added a pile of Emoji - because the goal of Unicode is to be able to universally represent text - and Emoji was text that couldn't be converted to or from Unicode.
At least pet him first.
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Self-amusement can't be a practical purpose for a hobby project?
It's one of those things we couldn't have imagined when the Internet was thrown open to anyone back in the early 90s. We didn't anticipate it would be used to spread cat memes, revive white supremacist ideology, or more to the point usher in a new golden age or priggery.
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But it would have taken him ten minutes to find the key.
Unless he remapped it to the 1000-key Dvorak Emoji layout.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
...because I don't give a crap enough to download all of your stupid little emojis.
Emoji's are part of Unicode/UTF-8. They work like any other character, like the ones you're reading now. When I enter "N", you may see it in Times New Roman, Arial, or whatever you have your fonts set to, so it might not look the same as what I see, but it's still a capitalized 14th letter of the english alphabet. Similarly, when someone sends you a smiling cat emoji, it's just a character code, and your system/font may or may not display it the same as their system, or may not display it at all.
Long story short, people aren't sending you pictures, and you're not downloading pictures**.
** exception to this rule is the "stickers" feature in Google Hangouts and similar stuff. Those are pictures, not emoji, though the files themselves are not sent whenever you send them (they use something similar to & to send them).