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Title: Stoopid Keyboard Pranks
Post by: FKSSR on Mon, 20 April 2009, 08:38:24

Nice.  The first one scares me, but I like the second and fourth ones. :)

Title: Stoopid Keyboard Pranks
Post by: kishy on Thu, 18 March 2010, 14:28:43

ThinkGeek also has these (http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/ae83/).

(http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/front/ae83_phantom_keystroker_v2.jpg)

I recommend you leave the typing function off; the irritating thing (for the prankster) is it types actual words. Very dumb; random characters would be much better.

Title: Stoopid Keyboard Pranks
Post by: kriminal on Thu, 18 March 2010, 14:29:37

Quote from: ripster;165185

Bumpity bump.  Another year, another time to fool someone.

Keyloggers are also available at ThinkGeek if you suspect your wife of talking to her old boyfriends on Facebook.  Strangely enough, they are technically legal in most jurisdictions.

=O
hmm if only i had this a few months ago.. >_>

Title: Stoopid Keyboard Pranks
Post by: didjamatic on Thu, 18 March 2010, 15:26:33

Well, I guess I better post this one.  I'm about to do this to someone at work.  I didn't think of April fools coming up, that would be a great day to pull it off.

Title: Stoopid Keyboard Pranks
Post by: DreymaR on Fri, 19 March 2010, 03:36:51

Ripster: You don't need an extra program in addition to Autohotkey to operate the CD tray!

Code: [Select]

~z::
Drive, Eject
Sleep, 500
Drive, Eject,, 1
return

You might also get a laugh out of Drive, Lock (if it works the way I expect)? Even Drive, Label   could be put to use by the inventive prankster.

Title: Stoopid Keyboard Pranks
Post by: Superfluous Parentheses on Wed, 31 March 2010, 17:16:49

Quote from: ripster;168450

Now I DO recommend taking a key puller to work tomorrow and doing the numpad prank.  My SmarTrex (Unicomp) keyboard (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:8438&&highlight=smartrex) CAME this way.

I like the color scheme on that one; it manages to look ugly and cool at the same time.

Anyway, the last time someone tried moving keys around on my board I didn't notice until the next day when I had to type one-handed while handling a phone call. First time I noticed that I really don't look at the keys.

Title: Stoopid Keyboard Pranks
Post by: Mr. Perfect on Tue, 29 March 2011, 14:35:38

That jet black Unicomp really is cool. The white function keys add a certain pop to it as well. All you need is a red phone (http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/876403/holy_hotline_batman_own_your_very_own.html?cat=46) for the handset cradle. Every try converting it to buckling spring?

Title: Stoopid Keyboard Pranks
Post by: strum4h on Tue, 29 March 2011, 14:37:11

What about the one where you grow plants in a coworkers keyboard while he is on vacation.

Title: Stoopid Keyboard Pranks
Post by: iMav on Tue, 29 March 2011, 14:43:23

Quote from: kishy;165191

ThinkGeek also has these (http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/ae83/).

Show Image

(http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/front/ae83_phantom_keystroker_v2.jpg)

I recommend you leave the typing function off; the irritating thing (for the prankster) is it types actual words. Very dumb; random characters would be much better.

I've got one of those, but haven't actually deployed it anywhere yet.

Title: Stoopid Keyboard Pranks
Post by: itlnstln on Tue, 29 March 2011, 14:48:45

Tape over the mouse.  That's a fun one.  I did that to a co-worker one time, and she must have wasted over an hour trying to get it to work.

She wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, either.