Loved it. Regardless of the yearly madness that pervades tech circles on this date, it was cute (perchance whimsical), well conceived, and executed with a lot of polish.
Kudos.
A Physical Flick Bluetooth Keyboard by Google
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#32Come to think wouldn't the keyboard that each keys give you 3 or 4 chars with one single action (push) speed up writing process tremendously?? T9 doesnt even come close!!!
This used to be a thing.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrogPad I'm not sure they ever made it too far but I always wanted to get one.
I remember seeing those in Popular Science and being vaguely interested.
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#33I would actually use that emoji keyboard.
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#34There is a keyboard similar to this, except it's even more strange. Introducing the DataHand : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand
I'd consider buying one if they were still selling...
The Twiddler 3 chording keyboard seems like something you might find useful. http://twiddler.tekgear.com/
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#35This actually looks very similar to the MessagEase keyboard (which is a real thing)
Edit: here's their video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45gR-J0Yj6M
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#36It's worth pointing out that they actually built the device and have a rough guide on how to build your own: https://github.com/google/mozc-devices/tree/master/mozc-furi... It looks like they have the code to make it work with an arduino. edit: edited to indicate it's real (instead of saying "may have built"). They aren't selling it, but you could build your own.
The only April Fools jokes I enjoy are absurd things that someone has actually implemented in code/hardware/etc. Anyone can write a ridiculous fake blog post about being acquired by $ARCHENEMY_COMPETITOR in 5 minutes, but it's been done before dozens of times and is just a waste of everyone's time. You could also see this as wasted effort, but they probably had a lot of fun working on it.
You might enjoy http://www.stupidhackathon.com/
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#37Make sure to watch the video -- especially the part in which the team introduces a way to use half-eaten chocolate bars for keyboard input... it gets even more surreal after that.
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#38It begins...
Man, though, I would actually like to buy and use that!
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#39I don't think the joke is the keyboard itself, not really. But I have weird fascination with mechanical computing combos.
Rather the startup, absurd change the world with chocolate, city blocks, and radical version changes video.
Disrupt keyboards.
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#40It's that time of the year again, isn't it. This year, I've been telling people that it's rude not to rewind YouTube videos when you're done watching them, so that they'll load faster for the next person.
When I was younger and DVDs were new I did manage to convince my aunt that they needed rewinding.