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IP: Hackers have fun with Furby
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 11:05:23 -0500
and See Also: Reverse Engineering the LEGO RCX http://graphics.stanford.edu/~kekoa/rcx/talk/ From: "Robert Raisch" <raisch () internautics com> To: <farber () cis upenn edu> (When you provide technically capable, questing minds with simple, cheap and effective communications channels, they do what come naturally. This is why DIVX is doomed. /rr) Hackers have fun with Furby BY MARGIE WYLIE Newhouse News Service http://www7.mercurycenter.com/business/top/080145.htm Excerpt: While some people see a lovable little friend in this year's answer to Tickle Me Elmo, toy hackers like the 25-year-old programmer see a challenge: make Furby do as they command. Why? Why not? ``I figured it would be neat,'' said Tokash, who has created a Web site for Furby hackers to swap information (http://www.homestead.com/hackfurby). ``Somebody's going to hack this thing; I might as well be one of them.'' The Furby was designed by Tiger Electronics of Illinois to squeal, sneeze or snore and speak 200 words in a language called Furbish. And since its October introduction, hackers have skinned, autopsied and beamed the cloyingly sweet animatronic fur-ball with different infrared signals. The results, in excruciating detail, are posted on the Web. -- Rob Raisch, Internet Technical Hired Gun <http://www.raisch.com/>
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