Watch Ellen DeGeneres show off Spectacles before anyone else
This week, Ellen DeGeneres had something new to celebrate.
The talkshow host was one of the first to use a Snapbot, the interactive, Minion-looking vending machines that Snap (the company behind Snapchat) is using to distribute Spectacles over the coming months.
The story, made available on her Snapchat account Thursday morning, shows DeGeneres getting a pair from the vending machine.
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"Am I going to get cigarettes?" DeGeneres joked while standing in front of the machine. When faced between the choice of three colors, she opted for black.
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DeGeneres also wore them throughout the office and walked around scaring her colleagues, showing another fun use case other than petting dogs and skateboarding, as Snapchat marketed the product in its
Checking out Ellen Degeneres play around with the @Spectacles on Snapchat -- pretty awesome !!! 😎 pic.twitter.com/lGAJgl6R65
— Motshwadiba (@BIZKID_WORLD) November 10, 2016 " data-ga-click="1" data-ga-label="$text" data-ga-item="text-link" data-ga-module="content_body">original release video."It's so fun. It really is amazing," DeGeneres says on the video.
Spectacles take 115-degree video, so to see them in the fullest you'll have to open your phone.
We're bound to see more celebrities wearing them over the coming week. Looking at you, DJ Khaled.
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Kerry Flynn is a business reporter for Mashable covering the tech industry. She previously reported on social media companies, mobile apps and startups for International Business Times. She has also written for The Huffington Post, Forbes and Money magazine. Kerry studied environmental science and economics at Harvard College, where she led The Harvard Crimson's metro news and design teams and played mellophone in the Band. When not listening to startup pitches, she runs half-marathons, plays with puppies and pretends to like craft beer.
