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Rotary dial keyboard for japanese input (www.youtube.com)
submitted 3 months ago by ludrol@bookwyr.me to c/japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz
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Once again google has cooked up a new keyboard design

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[–] emb@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

What an odd thing. I hear Google and keyboard, I'm picturing a phone's virtual KB. Instead, this is a physical DIY project. Has April Fool's energy lol.

As cool as dials are, seems like it'd be huge suffering to actually type anything out?

[–] emb@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Which I guess this is just kind of an ad for their virtual? Still, it has files on GitHub if you want to 3D print and make one, so that's cool.

Not specific to only Japanese either, from what I can tell.

[–] ludrol@bookwyr.me 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They make a wacky input device every year. You can search for them if you want.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Ooh, TIL! ~~Do you have links to some of the past ones actually? Tried a quick search but mostly got results about the dial.~~

Edit: Nevermind, here are some links: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/3/24261718/lets-follow-googles-lead-and-celebrate-wacky-keyboard-day-instead-of-april-fools

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