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Drew Prindle

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5 years

Ryan Reynolds as Willy Wonka. You're welcome. @VancityReynolds @DigitalTrends

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I found robot Forest Gump! #CES2018 #dtces

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Here's a rocket-powered katana slicing through a drone. Happy tuesday.

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A robot that operates a bank of 3D printers 24/7: This is what small-scale automated manufacturing looks like

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#gif of the day: this badass strandbeest bike

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BREAKING: The repeal of #NetNeutrality just went into effect. Your cable company now has even more power to screw you over and censor online content. But Congress can still stop this. Go to to contact your reps now! via @IDLtweets

Battle for the Net

Act NOW to support net neutrality with the FCC and your members of Congress.

www.battleforthenet.com

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I don't always meet the Most Interesting Man in the World, but when I do, he makes me put down my Corona due to contractual obligations #ces

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This autonomous race car prototype is easily the most badass thing i've seen today #roborace

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I wanna make a sign for the #inauguration protests tomorrow. Got any clever slogan ideas? I'm thinking "I've seen better cabinets at Ikea"

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One hour in, and nobody's noticed that I hijacked the office TV stream and have been playing nothing but #TheJoyOfPainting with Bob Ross

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So, this is a thing. A giant waterslide/ferriswheel hybrid. Stay tuned for the full story!

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First person view from @SpaceX 's latest Falcon 9 landing. Ridiculous.

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This #3Dprinted zoetrope shows a walking man when you shine a light on it. How do people even think this stuff up!?

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Can we just all agree that this doesn't need to be a thing? I'd rather not live in a world with autonomous cop drones. #CES2018 #DTCES

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This dude built an electric skateboard that's powered by a cordless drill. @DigitalTrends

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Here's why propellors look weird on rolling shutter cameras. #TheMoreYouKnow

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This was easily the most impressive thing I saw today at #CES2020 . That's not a real flashlight. All that light is a volumetric 3D animation. @DigitalTrends @LKGGlass

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Okay. This was the game changing thing I saw just now at #CES2020 . It’s from a company called “Looking Glass.” Their 8K 3D holographic displays are insane... along with some interactive elements to their product.

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...AND it makes you look like a buffoon in the process!

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7 years

This is the best idea ever. It's a service that uses an AI chatbot to thwart email scammers by wasting their time with fake (and hilarious) conversation.

Hilarious AI Bot Fights Email Scammers By Trolling Them | Digital Trends

A New Zealand cybersecurity company called Netsafe has come up with an ingenious chatbot designed to help turn the tables on email scammers.

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Kid trying to grab a $100 bill while his dad uses Tesla's #LudicrousMode . Lol @DigitalTrends

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This awesome 360 projector transforms your room into an immersive VR observatory

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My girlfriend's cat sleeps like a shrimp

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New electronic spray paint makes any surface touch sensitive

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Hah! Somebody used my anti-Trump slogan!

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this #timelapse vid of #Singapore 's growth took 3 years to make, and it will blow your mind

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4 years

Can literally hear the whole city of Portland screaming with joy right now

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9 years

Unique cutting tool turns plastic bottles into tough, versatile plastic rope: @DigitalTrends

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This flying LED drone ball is the future... the future of annoying, invasive advertising.

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6 years

This is not a drill the FCC just announced #NetNeutrality ends on June 11 unless we stop it retweet to sound the alarm

Battle for the Net

Act NOW to support net neutrality with the FCC and your members of Congress.

www.battleforthenet.com

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Still can't get over how dope this levitating turntable is. @DigitalTrends #vinyl #Kickstarter #crowdfunding

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Recently got a super cheap DLP 3D printer in for review, and I'm kinda blown away by the detail it's capable of producing.

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This 'gun' helps burn victims quickly regrow skin by spraying them with their own stem cells

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A few weeks ago I flew a plane, stalled it for fun, and landed it in the Columbia River. I should also add that I'm not a pilot, and that this was my first time inside a single-engine aircraft. Here's the story: @DigitalTrends @ICONAircraft

Meet the Icon A5: The High-Tech Airplane that Anyone Can Fly | Digital Trends

Prior to hopping inside the Icon A5's cockpit, I had never set foot inside a single-engine aircraft -- let alone flown one. But thanks to some amazing design and technology, this plane is somehow so...

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The number of smart toothbrushes at #CES2017 is too damn high! #dtces @DigitalTrends @JennyMcGeez

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This random fireworks show broke out behind my house a few minutes ago!

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Hey Twitter! I'm looking for an *experienced* writer -- one that can help me cover all the big, sexy, and amazing technologies that are reshaping the human experience and changing the world at large. If you have online journalism experience, hit me up! @DigitalTrends #HelpWanted

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Spotted in SW #pdx . Fine print says "the U.S. is doomed" #accurate

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Clever new suitcase has tank-like tracks on the bottom so it can roll up a flight of stairs

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The fact that a corporate shill from the telecom industry was able to push through legislation that an overwhelming majority of the American public did not support is appalling. Clearly, the US government no longer cares about upholding the will of its people. #NetNeutrality

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just a styrofoam ball being held in midair by nothing but sound waves. #NBD #science

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#WWDC2019

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Apparently #weed bouquets are a thing now. Because nothing says "I love you" quite like $400 of Alaskan Thunderfuck & some eucalyptus greens

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This bitchy, entitled AI robot complains incessantly in order to train customer service employees how to deal with rude people. If there is a hell, it's probably filled with these things @DigitalTrends @lukedormehl

Meet the Nightmare Robot That Trains Employees by Acting Like an Awful Customer | Digital Trends

Trying to train your employees to answer questions from customers with a variety of different needs? What you’re looking for may be a slightly creepy robot bust with a swappable face. Meet Furhat:...

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Holy hell. @StoneBrewingCo 's Berlin location is hands down the most incredible brewpub I've ever seen!

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LIAM the #recycling robot was definitely the coolest part of the #AppleEvent @DigitalTrends

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Watch @astro_timpeake explain why it's hard to get dizzy in space:

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Dude built a giant #nerf gun that shoots darts (made of plungers and pool noodles) at 40 mph

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Instead of a fake limb, this guy's prosthetic arm is a badass #steampunk #tattoo gun

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this is the most trendy thing that Digital Trends has ever trended in the history of trendiness. #trendgasm

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#CheckItOut : 3D topographical candles made from hi-res aerial LiDAR scans of legit mountains

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RokBlok is a little robot that drives around your vinyl records and beams the tunes to a bluetooth speaker

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To celebrate #Juno arriving at Jupiter, @Hellmanns is sending out these ridiculous 7-pound sandwiches

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Donald Trump is president, eating Tide pods is trendy, and Boss Baby is an Oscar nominated film. I bet all the time travelers that landed in 2018 are so confused right now.

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bruh. @Nintendo is launching a compact #NES system this fall, and it's preloaded with games.

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Synchronized wind tunnel flying should definitely be in the next #Olympics

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This arm-mounted #3Dprinted gatling gun can shoot 48 rubber bands per second @DigitalTrends

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This monstrous house-building robot can lay 1,000 bricks per hour @DigitalTrends

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Apparently China just went full-on Gattaca and used #CRISPR to modify the genes of two babies -- rendering the newborn infants immune to smallpox, cholera, and HIV. @lukedormehl @DigitalTrends

Chinese Scientists Reportedly Create the First Genetically Edited Babies | Digital Trends

Scientists in China are reportedly using CRISPR gene-editing technology to try and create the world’s first children whose DNA has been altered through the use of gene editing. By doing so, they hope...

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Slowly developing a mild addiction to soft boiled eggs smashed on toast. Like, why even bother with anything else? This is perfection

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obligatory. #MayThe4thBeWithYou

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I'm in a helicopter, on my way to see a giant mech. I don't think I'll ever do anything cooler than this. I've peaked. #surreal #FurrionICIT

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This is nuts. These @BostonDynamics robots are literally progressing in leaps and bounds

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If I hit 50 RT's I'll go Tony Montana on everyone in the bullpen

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After two weeks of drinking my way through Germany, I still think American craft beer is better. #USAFTW #INeedAnIPA

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5 years

guilty as charged

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This magnetically levitating chalice is the most ballin-ass beverage container ive ever seen

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I'm filing a class-action lawsuit against whoever named Red Delicious apples. Calling them anything but "Red Okay-At-Best" apples is false advertising. Who's with me?

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I don't give a heck what day it is. I'll have French toast whenever I damn well please b/c THAT, my friends, is the definition of freedom.

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6 years

Why drive to the grocery store when the grocery store can drive to you? #CES2019 @DigitalTrends

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8 years

Currently trying to find a stock image for an article about the neurological benefits of farting. Best one so far:

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Where has this been all my life!?

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let's do this again: PITCH ME! Looking for fresh perspectives and original reporting on tech-related topics. Save yourself some keystrokes and just hit me with headlines. If you've got a solid headline, the topic/angle/hook will be implied I PAY WELL FOR GOOD STORIES DMs open!

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Finally, a legit #hoverboard ! @DigitalTrends @kellyhodgkins

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hands down the best part of my job. @DigitalTrends @kimdogg @JayceHB #ThatPeelingFeeling

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I've written a lot of odd headlines on @DigitalTrends , but I think this one takes the cake

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Looks like a set of disembodied ostrich legs, but the articulated hip joints are a gamechanger for #robotics .

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My bootleg rooftop tomato project is finally bearing fruit!

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I'm not normally one to brag, but I just spelled 'hors d'oeuvres' correctly on the first try -- without googling it or changing letters until the squiggly red spellcheck line disappeared -- for the first time in my life

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Carry your own drive-in theater with this collapsible, car-mounted screen @DigitalTrends

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By studying ant colonies, MIT devised a totally new way to analyze massive amounts of data.

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Ballsy Swedish engineer builds a homemade flying chair, tests it in his driveway

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I don't think @realDonaldTrump is a question-dodging master - I'm pretty sure he's just too stupid to stay on topic when he answers

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Made a very modern snowman on my roof today

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When you spend the whole day thinking it's Wednesday, but then realize its Thursday at 3:20 PM. #OhNoImScrewed

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My friend's baby has the same laugh face as Robin Williams 🤣

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You know shit's bad when this happens. #s3outage

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Called an @uber , lucked out and hopped into a Prius driven by a guy who does a live streamed in-car impromptu karaoke show on YouTube! Faith in humanity restored!

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A plane just flew around the world without a single drop of fuel. Let that sink in for a sec

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This dude's prosthetic arm has a built-in flashlight, USB charger, and detachable drone.

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You can do nearly anything in Animal Crossing -- except have curly hair. Excellent piece from @bexlectric on ACNH's inclusivity problem, and the petition to fix it.

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there's a $49 3D printer on #Kickstarter right now. I've had steak dinners that cost more

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Didn't have cash to tip my @Uber driver, so I promised i'd leave him the most positive review ever. #nailedit

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😂 best one yet!

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This dude builds comic book weapons IRL. Here's his take on Cyclops' laser visor from #XMen

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Remember China's crazy "straddling bus" concept? It's already been built and test driven.

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This robot is designed to feed disabled people, but I bet lazy people will enjoy it too ;)

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New oleophilic sponge designed 4 oil spill cleanup. It can hold 90% of its weight in oil, then be wrung out & reused

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@DigitalTrends lost some really talented people today. Hire them. They're phenomenal. @pauljsquire @MathewKatz @lisamarie_lynn @jaronschneider @nwoodard25 @JennyMcGeez @madkingbilly @ptownjake @GregNibler @jssca @slaughterwrites

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FEAST YOUR EYES ON THE TOP TECH OF #CES2019 !!! @DigitalTrends @ImpossibleFoods @thenorthface @harleydavidson @KlipschAudio @ASUS @limebike @KitchenAidUSA @katespadeny @Philips @Kohler @ring @Samsung @BeeLife_fr @FluidityTech @ilovetouchpoint @NexOpticTech

Best of CES | 2019 Awards | Digital Trends

CES 2019 brought the usual barrage of mega TVs, self-driving cars, and insanely fast computers, but it also surprised & delighted with many products that are close to going on sale. So while not...

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BREAKING: Senate files motion to proceed to final #NetNeutrality vote. There's less than two hours to make your voice heard, and it's going to be extremely close. Call RIGHT NOW: via @IDLtweets

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