Friskies is the largest cat food brand at Purina, and as the brand team looked at the explosion of cat videos they wondered how their brand could play a role.

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To create the point-contact transistor, Shockley's team modified the cat's whisker by placing two fine metal wires close together on the surface of a germanium crystal, turning it from a diode into a triode.

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The show features Huh and a group of his team members at the startup, mostly from the content editorial team who sift through the thousands of cat photos.

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But then when we sold the company in June of 2005, there were all these fat cat investors who were celebrating and pretending they were part of the team, and they shouldn't have been.

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Many entered, but it was Daniel Orren who sent in a great green-screened video that snagged him a temporary spot on the Engadget crew at this year's CES. Hanging with the team in our trusty trailer, getting comped meals, roaming the floor, wearing mind-controlled cat ears -- honestly, it's probably just easier to list all of the things the photographer didn't do the other week in Vegas.

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