YouTube builds emoji keyboard for fun

Gwyn D’Mello

YouTube built an Emoji keyboard for fun and if you swear by emoji for your daily back and forth, you're going to love this.

YouTuber Tom Scott has gone ahead and built a physical keyboard to accommodate shortcuts for all the possible emoji you could ever need, and then some. It uses 14 keyboards synced together with over 1,000, plugged into a laptop.

Scott aptly summarises it in his video description, "This is the most ridiculous thing I've built in a long while: a full-size, real-life emoji keyboard, made of 14 keyboards and over 1,000 individually placed stickers. And yet, it's got everything from Unicode 8 -- but not yet the candidates from Unicode 9. I might need another keyboard for them, next year."

If you had this you'd probably never use text again, and I'm about 67 percent sure that's a bad thing. So, please don't actually build this, but it IS cool to look at, yes? Enjoy.