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Snapchat Spectacles! (and 5 other physical products) 🕶🃏⛱🎒❄️👻
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Late Friday night Snapchat unveiled their highly anticipated smart video sunglasses: Spectacles. With the tap off a button you record 10 seconds of circular video, a new format that looks pretty awesome (and solves the portrait vs landscape video debate, at last). As part of the launch Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. to reflect that it's more than just an app.
But Spectacles isn’t Snap's first physical product launch. Here are 5 others you can buy right now:
❄️ Ice Tray
🎒 Backpack
🃏 Playing Cards
👻 Plushie
⛱ Beach Towel
But Spectacles isn’t Snap's first physical product launch. Here are 5 others you can buy right now:
❄️ Ice Tray
🎒 Backpack
🃏 Playing Cards
👻 Plushie
⛱ Beach Towel
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Alternatively, you can Make Twitter Great Again by hiding all mentions of the 2016 election, do the same for Facebook, then take "The Donald Test."
Alternatively, you can Make Twitter Great Again by hiding all mentions of the 2016 election, do the same for Facebook, then take "The Donald Test."
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