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.
Much better to have two screens, one for the content and another to display any errors to the watcher. Or maybe one screen that is either broken or it's not?
I bought one, so I can attest that the hardware was real (bluetooth, left-handed model). Alas, it's lost somewhere in a pile of boxes left still-not-unpacked from my last move, and they went bust some years ago -- rumours of a new low-profile version similar to the Apple chiclet keyboard have failed to materialize as hardware so far.
The thing worked, and worked surprisingly well for single-hand typing (if, for example, you had an injury to the other paw). Trouble is, it cost more than a regular QWERTY keyboard, was slower (all those chording shift-states), and wasn't ambidextrous (left-handed and right-handed models had differing layouts, IIRC).
The README.md actually lists all the part names and numbers. This is something that can be built.
Everyone in here is joking about this being an "April Fool Joke", but this an actual device that can be created by anyone with the tools. This hardly classifies as a joke.
Adafruit has the joystick modules for cheaper for USA customers.
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.
If there's a competition to how long it took to recognize the joke, I believed it up until the chocolate bar. Then again, I don't know any of these kind of syllabic languages.
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.
Make 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.
I'm probably strange in wanting this, but I wish there was a bluetooth 3x4 T9 keypad with a small lcd that shows the content of the input box. Basically a Nokia 3310 as an input device to a smartphone. For whatever reason I found t9 input a lot nicer than swyping/tapping on a touchscreen keyboard. I didn't have to watch my fingers or pay attention at all to type like I do with touchscreen querty keyboards. I've toyed with the idea of building something like that but it would likely be too bulky without professional tooling that requires $EXPENSIVE_PRODUCION_RUN
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 111 ms ] threadHappy April 1st, Japan.
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.
Yes, the time of year when the April 1 arms race takes yet another chunk out of March 31.
T9 doesnt even come close!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrogPad
I'm not sure they ever made it too far but I always wanted to get one.
The thing worked, and worked surprisingly well for single-hand typing (if, for example, you had an injury to the other paw). Trouble is, it cost more than a regular QWERTY keyboard, was slower (all those chording shift-states), and wasn't ambidextrous (left-handed and right-handed models had differing layouts, IIRC).
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.
Everyone in here is joking about this being an "April Fool Joke", but this an actual device that can be created by anyone with the tools. This hardly classifies as a joke.
Adafruit has the joystick modules for cheaper for USA customers.
Given that it was built for humor and amusement, and that you can view stuff like the Washington Monument like a dick joke, I disagree.
You could also see this as wasted effort, but they probably had a lot of fun working on it.
http://i.imgur.com/5sVU3z1.png
Kudos.
https://www.exideas.com/
Edit: here's their video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45gR-J0Yj6M
Man, though, I would actually like to buy and use that!
Rather the startup, absurd change the world with chocolate, city blocks, and radical version changes video.
Disrupt keyboards.