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."