Technel
Someone who's life is dominated by technology, more so than the average person. This person always has an array of gadgets on their person, such as the newest phone, watch, etc. Some of the tools they own might fill a niche role, or one that is a total gimmick, such as a shoulder-mounted automatic fly swatter, or in the case of a useless gimmick, a juicero juicing machine. Often times the technel will brag about how advanced their technology is to the point where the objects they own become their whole personality and more or less extensions of themselves. Technels are the type of people who will talk all day about all the benefits of modern day innovations, but would be left defenseless should their beloved technologies fail, and will likely attribute this failure to external factors rather than poor design. Most technels wouldn't survive 3 days in the wilderness without their little toys.
Example 1:
Technel: "The flesh is weak.. Robots are our masters!"
Regular person: "goddamn when will this technel shut up he's been hogging the mic for 20 minutes now."
Example 2: Technel brags about shoes with built in climate control, regenerative insoles, and self tying laces made of titanium cable. Technel tries to demonstrate the capabilities of the hydraulic jump feature, failing to account for the fact that the shoes have a weight limit of 130 lbs between the two of them and the engineers didn't do a very good job creating a waterproof design. Technel doesn't make it over the massive puddle they tried to jump and total their $18,000 shoes, blaming the failure on "wind conditions."
Technel: "The flesh is weak.. Robots are our masters!"
Regular person: "goddamn when will this technel shut up he's been hogging the mic for 20 minutes now."
Example 2: Technel brags about shoes with built in climate control, regenerative insoles, and self tying laces made of titanium cable. Technel tries to demonstrate the capabilities of the hydraulic jump feature, failing to account for the fact that the shoes have a weight limit of 130 lbs between the two of them and the engineers didn't do a very good job creating a waterproof design. Technel doesn't make it over the massive puddle they tried to jump and total their $18,000 shoes, blaming the failure on "wind conditions."
technelation
The utter sense of happiness or elation felt by a non-techie upon figuring out soemthing technological in nature.
I figured out how to install editing software on the computer, and was actually able to import video to it and use it for it's intended purpose! It was an utter sense of technelation. In days past, it would be the equivalent of not knowing how to use your VCR, but soemhow getting it to stop flashing 12:00, and getting your favorite show to record.