That’s 14 individual keyboards synced together with over 1,000 keys bound to emojis. While making a ground-breaking invention, a man from London Tom Scott has recently designed an interesting solution by making 14 regular keyboards to create an emoji keyboard.
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Because, really, it’s far more fun trying to work out a story told in the language of emoji than just having boring old words convey it.
His point of reference was Unicode 8 – the industry standard for computer characters.
“Animals and plants are over here, along with food”.
“Concluding his pitch for the keyboard he added: “…yeah I built an emoji keyboard, it’s kind of ridiculous”. From your typical, yellow-faced smilies to national flags and the coveted poop emoji, it’s all found here on this array of keyboards.
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Other folks use emoji like insane, you know these folks they are the ones that try and have entire conversations with nothing but emoji. Some of us only use the smiley emoji, and then it’s only so you know (or at least think) we are kidding when we say something that might be construed as mean.
