Whilst we suspect that many would discount this Look@Me Emoticon Mini Keypad as being wholly trivial in nature we actually love the idea of having a separate keyboard specifically dedicated to creating emoticons and thereby serving as a tool by which we can express ourselves using what is, in essence, a modern take on hieroglyphics.
Consisting of just 37 keys and not 40, as some sites are reporting – try counting them, guys ^o) - which is sufficient to compose a total of 40 separate emoticons, the Look@Me Emoticon Mini Keypad is designed by Harry Wu, Ming Yang, Jabez Lin, Ian Hsueh and Vince Yu and appears to be a wireless (Bluetooth?) device which ought to make it usable with both computers and, we would suspect, Bluetooth enabled handsets; thereby offering you a simple, highly portable means of input dedicated to allowing you to express your feelings when required.
The Look@Me Emoticon Mini Keypad is merely at the conceptual stage at the time of writing so whether we’ll ever actually see it ‘in the wild’ is anyone’s guess. We hope so.
PEGA [via DesignBoom]
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