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  • Abby Tang: Pokémon, literally,

  • you gotta catch 'em all.

  • Lisa Paradise: Pokémon Go is an app

  • that I use every single day,

  • and I'm embarrassed to talk about it on camera.

  • Aylin Woodward: And it's a super great way

  • of getting out into the universe.

  • But also occasionally dangerous

  • if you are playing and not looking where you're going.

  • Chris Snyder: I almost got hit by a bus actually on day one.

  • Which is one of the things they warn you about.

  • You know, like, look out for traffic.

  • Paradise: You walk around essentially staring at your phone,

  • and you catch Pokémon,

  • you can, like, fight other Pokémon trainers.

  • Snyder: I think the thing I like best about it is

  • it's a video game, but you have to play it outside,

  • and you can play with other people.

  • Woodward: I used to have this Pikachu hat

  • that I wore everywhere.

  • And yeah, it would get me a lot of people

  • who'd walk up to me and be like,

  • "Are you playing Pokémon Go?"

  • And I'd be like, "Yes!"

  • Paradise: I am so embarrassed to love it.

  • I don't use it on my commute

  • because I'm afraid other people on the train

  • will see me playing it.

  • When I use it,

  • I turn my brightness all the way down on my phone,

  • and then I use it when I'm walking around.

  • Snyder: I actually met some really good friends playing.

  • I think that's honestly one of the best things about it.

  • Tang: Pokémon Go was a really fun way

  • to get me out of my apartment when I was depressed.

  • Because I could still play a video game

  • but, like, be outside,

  • which is, like, good for me.

  • Snyder: So, like, the first year it came out,

  • I was walking by Central Park,

  • and this, like, mass stampede of people, like, ran by me.

  • And I asked what they were doing

  • and they said they were chasing a Snorlax.

  • The stream of people never ended.

  • It was really crazy.

  • And they were all just standing there, you know,

  • spinning Pokéballs to catch a Snorlax.

  • And then, like, a fire engine had to come

  • and, like, break up the crowd.

  • Paradise: I think Pokémon Go is so different

  • because it connects back to the nostalgia of your childhood.

  • Like, even though I wasn't

  • that big of a fan of it growing up,

  • I obviously knew what it was.

  • Snyder: I mean, it's an addiction to, like,

  • literally try to get them all.

  • I've come so far.

  • Like, I can't stop now until I get them all.

  • Will Wei: Tesla is an electric-car company,

  • and it's run by Elon Musk.

  • Tang: Elon Musk is a clown.

  • Meg Teckman-Fullard: I love Elon Musk, but he's weird.

  • Starr Chen: Tesla has made all-electric cars

  • really cool though.

  • It really helped set a pretty high bar

  • as far as what electric vehicles could be.

  • Wei: Me and my colleague Graham Flanagan,

  • we drove a Tesla Model X across the country,

  • starting from San Francisco and getting back to New York.

  • Tried to only use Superchargers along the way,

  • and we found out that

  • it just took a lot longer than we thought it would.

  • But the car itself is beautiful.

  • It's comfortable.

  • And it's very fast.

  • Goes 0 to 60 in three seconds or so.

  • Chen: It was really exciting when Tesla came on the scene.

  • People were driving the cars.

  • They looked great.

  • They didn't look weird, future cars,

  • or, like, they didn't scream, like,

  • "I am environmentally friendly!"

  • Wei: Tesla stands out from other all-electric cars

  • and electric-car companies

  • purely because of, I think, Elon Musk

  • and the way he's marketed this thing.

  • Matt Stuart: iPhone 4!

  • Yes. Ah, the best-shaped iPhone.

  • Alex Appolonia: iPhone 4?

  • Wow.

  • Shayanne Gal: It was the first iPhone

  • that you didn't need to be on AT&T for.

  • Jason Sanchez: So obviously the first iPhone

  • is, like, a groundbreaking design,

  • but I think the 4 is actually the only iPhone

  • that had, like, really great design after the first one

  • in terms of, like, hardware and appearances.

  • Stuart: A lot of people have

  • a strange love with the iPhone 4.

  • I think for a lot of people

  • it may have been their first iPhone.

  • Appolonia: The iPhone 4 was the first model

  • that had the front-facing camera.

  • I guess that was the start of the selfies.

  • Sanchez: The 4 looked like an old-school camera.

  • It looked like an old Leica camera.

  • Appolonia: I remember the iPhone 4 being

  • really small, compact,

  • a bigger screen.

  • Sanchez: It had this sort of aluminum band around the frame,

  • and then the back was black,

  • and it just, it looked like an old, like, '70s, '60s camera.

  • It looked awesome.

  • Stuart: Also it introduced the more rectangle shape

  • with the solid sides.

  • If you wanted to, for example,

  • prop the phone up to take a photo,

  • you could just set it down, and it would stay there.

  • Sanchez: One of the best-designed pieces of tech

  • the entire decade.

  • Jacqui Frank: I love Google Translate.

  • I think it's perfect.

  • Danielle Cohen: Google Translate is a website

  • where you can input, you know, a phrase or a sentence

  • in any language

  • and ask Google to translate it into a different language.

  • Taryn Varricchio: Google Translate saved my life

  • when I was living abroad.

  • Because I literally would not have been able

  • to talk to my Italian host family.

  • Frank: So Google Translate is translation witchcraft,

  • like, essentially.

  • Gal: As someone who's done a lot of world travel,

  • like, that is just the No. 1 go-to for me.

  • We're able to just, within a moment,

  • pull out a phone and communicate what we want to say.

  • Michelle Yan: Google Translate is the greatest tool for me

  • to communicate with my parents.

  • Trisha Bonthu: Google Translate was great

  • when I was trying to learn Portuguese during college.

  • Yan: My parents, they speak Chinese

  • and they don't really know English that well.

  • I think, you know, it helped during those conversations

  • where I was like,

  • I want to tell you something, but I don't know,

  • but OK, let me go to Google Translate,

  • translate that word,

  • show it to you,

  • and then they're like, "Oh, OK!"

  • Gal: My grandparents speak Hebrew,

  • which I speak pretty fluently as well,

  • but there are words and things

  • that I don't fully get with them, and vice versa.

  • You know, they learned English at an older age.

  • So we actually share a lot of memories

  • through Google Translate.

  • William Antonelli: The Nintendo Switch

  • is Nintendo's newest console.

  • And the whole deal behind it

  • is that you can play it on a TV,

  • on a big screen,

  • or you can pull it right out of a dock

  • and then take it with you on the go.

  • Tang: Oh, man.

  • Bonthu: The Switch is part of Nintendo.

  • I think it kind of replaced the Wii

  • but is a more modern and cool version of it.

  • Tang: My best friend and I didn't live together

  • for the first year I was in New York.

  • She had a Switch. I didn't.

  • But I knew

  • that we were gonna move in together at some point.

  • So I waited.

  • I waited 12 long months

  • until she came and lived in my house with her Switch.

  • And now all I do is play the Switch.

  • Snyder: I play video games,

  • and I think maybe now I play them more

  • because I have the Switch,

  • because I can take them with me when I travel.

  • Antonelli: I like how portable it is

  • and how powerful is for a portable console.

  • It has so much better graphics,

  • so much more processing power

  • than any other handheld console.

  • There's a lot of really amazing games for it.

  • So I'm a big fan.

  • Tang: "Zelda's" my favorite game on the Switch.

  • It's one of my favorite games of all time.

  • Like, all the "Zelda" games are really fun,

  • but, like, "Breath of the Wild" is something special.

  • Snyder: "Zelda: Breath of the Wild"

  • is the best game I've ever played.

  • Tang: I actually like playing

  • on just the tiny little bar remote.

  • I just get, like, real, like, in on myself.

  • And I get super serious about "Mario Kart"

  • on the tiny thing.

  • I got tiny hands so I think it fits better.

  • Cohen: Venmo is like Chase QuickPay,

  • but not Chase and not as quick.

  • Jade Tungul: Venmo is a money-transfer app.

  • Tang: Venmo is a social-media platform,

  • and I am standing by that.

  • Cohen: Venmo is honestly the best way to stalk people.

  • It's how I keep tabs on most people.

  • Appolonia: I can't really imagine my life without Venmo.

  • Tungul: It has created this accountability thing

  • for paying people back.

  • Victoria Barranco: Oh, it's 100%, like,

  • how I pay for things with friends.

  • Tang: I love the Venmo feed.

  • Nikki Torres: Some of the comments are really funny.

  • You see, like, kind of people

  • explaining what they're paying the money for in emojis.

  • Barranco: It used to have to be,

  • "Oh, we have to split this check,"

  • or "Oh, I have to have cash on me to, like, give to you."

  • Tang: It is the funniest way to keep tabs on your friends

  • and what they're doing and who they're talking to

  • and who they owe money to.

  • Barranco: It's just, like,

  • how we do transactions now between friends.

  • Tony Villas-Boas: 4G is the fourth generation

  • of mobile wireless communications.

  • Nich Carlson: You are probably

  • watching this video on your phone.

  • And without 4G, you would not want to do that.

  • It would be like this, like,

  • really long load time.

  • I would be freezing.

  • And then you'd be waiting, and it would suck.

  • Stuart: For a while,

  • there wasn't as much of a focus

  • on increasing the connectivity for smartphones.

  • Because once everybody started getting all these smartphones

  • there was a huge demand to increase mobile connectivity,

  • increase the data speeds that people were using,

  • increase the bandwidth that an entire network could support.

  • That's where 4G really came in.

  • Villas-Boas: Without 4G, we would not be

  • with some of the most popular apps that we know now.

  • Carlson: If you look at all the things

  • we do now on our phones,

  • it's pretty much all due to the invention of 4G or LTE.

  • Villas-Boas: It's one of the biggest leaps in technology.

  • Teckman-Fullard: So SpaceX is a aerospace startup.

  • Wei: Their basic mission is to send humans to space.

  • To send humans to colonize Mars.

  • That's highly ambitious,

  • but they are taking strides to get there.

  • Teckman-Fullard: They do rockets.

  • They do satellites.

  • I mean, weird space suits.

  • Tang: I do have to admit though

  • the thought of a car flying through space

  • is very, very cool.

  • Teckman-Fullard: Who are trying to make aerospace possible

  • without having to go through

  • the traditional NASA and government things.

  • Wei: A rocket that can go to space

  • and then land back onto Earth,

  • and having that be reusable

  • and saving billions of dollars along the way,

  • that's incredible.

  • Teckman-Fullard: It's not just all about the fuel.

  • It's all about all of the engineering that goes into it.

  • It's all the pieces that go into it.

  • So if you can send one up,

  • recover it,

  • and then send it up again,

  • especially in a quick turnaround like SpaceX is trying to do

  • and actually has pretty much succeeded in doing

  • on some of these relatively recently,

  • is pretty incredible.

  • Nate Lee: Oh!

  • Dark mode

  • is an art form.

  • Katya Kupelian: Every app that is an Apple app

  • turns to dark.

  • So everything will be a black background.

  • Tang: I just feel, like, cooler

  • and smoother

  • and more mysterious

  • when my stuff's on dark mode.

  • Lee: Dark mode really, like, puts less strain on the eye.

  • Maybe that's just advertising

  • and Apple, like, brainwashing me.

  • Tang: I don't give two shakes about my eyes.

  • All I care about is how dark mode makes me feel.

  • Lee: But I don't know,

  • my eyes have been feeling great ever since using dark mode.

  • Tang: I like it lot.

  • I do not like Google Doc dark mode.

  • That's insane.

  • It doesn't make any sense,

  • and it's really hard to write and type and see and do stuff.

  • I have my limits with dark mode.

  • Stuart: I love Roku.

  • Paige DiFiore: I love Roku.

  • Alyse Kalish: I've used other TVs in the past

  • that have, like, cable

  • or, like, different kinds of TVs,

  • like Apple TV, for example,

  • and they're a lot harder to navigate

  • and I like how easy Roku is.

  • It's, like, pretty straightforward.

  • DiFiore: From my understanding,

  • it's like a magic stick that you plug into your TV

  • and then it kind of makes it, like, a smart TV.

  • Stuart: Roku is basically a device

  • that puts Netflix, Hulu,

  • and every other streaming service onto your TV.

  • Kalish: On the remote there's different buttons

  • for, like, the most popular apps.

  • DiFiore: It's basically like if you don't have a smart TV

  • but you don't want to buy a new TV,

  • you just get a Roku stick.

  • That's how I use it.

  • Stuart: It's one of the best devices of the decade

  • because it's platform-agnostic.

  • And the reason that is is because

  • they don't care what service you want to use.

  • They just want to enable you to get those services

  • and put them on your TV.

Abby Tang: Pokémon, literally,

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