Keyboard Made For Emoticons
Instant messaging programs have launched the creation of a whole new language. Yes, IM speak. Where every word is abbreviated and every emotion can be expressed with three symbols. Our new language really speeds things up.
Though with as much emoting has been done via IM over the last decade, relatively little has been done to aid our emoticon habit. Sure, most IM applications now come stock with a click menu for the commonly used smiley faces, but most of us still like to use our hands for speed purposes. The look@me keyboard is made especially for emoticons.
Featuring all of the commonly used (and even the not so commonly used) symbols which compose our online emotions, the look@me keyboard reminds us of the old accounting number pads. No calculations here. This is about pure and simple emoting fun.
If you already have your heart set at picking up one of these look@me keyboards, you might be out of luck. It seems for now that it is no more than a pipe dream in the designers mind. We’re not quite sure how an emoticon keyboard would sell anyway, since everyone is already so use to the older way of doing things.
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Una tastiera per le emoticon – Noantri Says: June 2, 2008 at 12:31 am
[...] Se vi sentite dei veri professionisti della faccina, probabilmente avvertite già da tempo il bisogno di nuovi, più potenti strumenti per migliorare le vostre “prestazioni” e comunicare una ampia gamma di sentimenti ed emozioni nel minor tempo possibile: una normale tastiera contiene dei tasti superflui che possono essere di intralcio, e richiede spostamente più lunghi alle vostre dita per raggiungere i simboli che vi occorrono al momento. Perchè allora non procurarsi uno strumento dedicato a chi parla più per emoticon che utilizzando le parole? Un interessante prototipo di PEGA design, look@me è una tastiera pensata proprio per i maniaci dello smile, ed include tutti i tasti comunemente utilizzati per creare le centinaia di faccine che i naviganti sono stati in grado di inventarsi durante questi venticinque anni di comunicazione digitale. Lasciando da parte tutti i tasti “superflui”, ovviamente questa tastiera potrebbe rivelarsi uno strumento estremamente pratico per alcuni, ed in un congegno infernale per i più tradizionalisti. [via Coolest Gadgets] [...]
Tambayan.ph » Keyboard Made For Emoticons Says: June 3, 2008 at 9:16 pm
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look@me ^-^ 0_o ( ^w^)b keyboard | ALBOTAS – A Little Bit On The Awesome Side | Says: May 27, 2008 at 12:24 pm
[...] The look@me keyboard is perfect for the emoticon obsessed. They sell gaming + calculator type keyboards also but I think this is a little to far. By the time I would even be able to type faster on this then a regular keyboard they’ll probably have face recognition emoticon capibilities. [via CG] [...]