Introducing Gmail Tap

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Google's 2012 April Fools video for Gmail Tap, a fake product that lets you write email by tapping out Morse code on two large buttons. It is a deadpan product launch parody.

HN people bring it up whenever someone builds a minimal two-button or few-key keyboard, as the joke ancestor of the idea.

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@dsaw2015 · in “Google Tap (2012)”
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@keshansodi2012 · in “Google Tap (April fool's joke :D )”
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@Shenglong2012 · in “Introducing Gmail Tap”
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@xmrsilentx2017 · in “A two-button mechanical keyboard that types ASCII values, one bit at a time”
Reminds me of this: ▶ this video
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@techaddict0092014 · in “5 Tiles Keyboard”
Is is it inspired from Google's Gmail Tap April Fool Prank? ▶ this video