Why, thanks! The original inspiration is probably related to http://what3words.com/. Mainly I thought it'd be "mad scientist" thing but it actually is fun and possibly useful in some contexts. As for usability, you could use text substitution [1] and have something like `ip174` change into `⢮`. Setting up 256 mappings isn't too terrible, especially since there is a system to Braille dot ordering.

[1]: http://lifehacker.com/162484/save-time-with-text-substitutio...

Base 32 seems like a good half-way solution of length reduction vs glyph complexity, as Base 64 or Base 89 (or whichever the RFC suggest) include too many distracting characters (IMHO).

Of course, Chinese/Japanese speakers have a natural advantage here (Katana and Hirigana both fall short of a contiguous 64 character mapping):

ip6emoji("fe8000000000000003ceecdfffe30c27",Char(0x3300),stride=8) => "㏰㌀㌏㏷"

( though hopefully that's not some form of insult in Chinese! ;) )