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  Furby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In appearance, the Furby is a cross between a hamster, a cat, and a bat or owl.
Novel Furbys were also released such as the 'Gizmo' Furby from the movie Gremlins (ironic, because Warner Bros. was, at one time, enamored with a lawsuit against Hasbro for the similarities between Furby and Gizmo), 'Yoda' Furby based on the Star Wars character, and an E.T. Furby from the movie of the same name.
The funky new furby was released in August 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Furby   (705 words)

  
 Furby - Uncyclopedia
The Furby homeworld is composed of a thick layer of clouds, upon which the Furbies live.
Furbies have large ears, which are used for eavesdropping upon everything around them and reporting it to their queen, on the homeworld.
Furbies can appear more beautiful and sexy than Jessica Simpson or that english teacher everyone has in high school that only works to give the students oral and get abortions.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Furby   (862 words)

  
 FURBY OR FIESTA
Furby is the first mother in our cat-breeding.She fulfilled our dream of having a real Main Coon cat at our home.
Furby is classically striped female cat with the white medallion a front of her neck.
Furby or Fiestabecause this name is written in her genealogy certificate, is a cat who enjoys quiet and loneliness.She doesn’t like strangers neither people nor cats.
furby-dream.com /00_ANG/FURBY_E.htm   (137 words)

  
 eToys: Furby from Hasbro Toy
Furby also features a flexible beak, moveable ears, expressive eyes, light and touch sensors, a tilt sensor and an on/off switch.
I purchased a Furby for a birthday present, for a little girl who turned 7, she was thrilled with it.
Much bigger furby than the one i had purchased several years ago when it was all the "rage".
www.etoys.com /genProduct.html/PID/4067519/ctid/17   (184 words)

  
 Hasbro is set to debut a new and improved Furby this year. - Feb. 2, 2005
Hasbro's Richardson explained that the most noticeable differences from the original Furby is that new version of the toy uses "Emoto-Tronics," which is a combination of robotic technology, puppetry and realistic lifelike reactions and movements.
Furby creatures also speak, dance, sing, tell jokes and play games and has the ability to speak hundreds of programmed words and phrases in Furbish and English.
While Furby is a nod to a fad of the past, Hasbro is also cleverly staying in-tune with the trends of today.
money.cnn.com /2005/02/02/news/fortune500/hasbro_furby?cnn=yes   (968 words)

  
 Ron's Furby Family History Web Site - My Ancestors
These include the descendents of his son John William Furby (born 1874) who live in the south-east of England and those of his other son Charles Edwin Furby (born 1861) who emigrated to the USA in 1888 and has descendents today in California.
James Joseph Furby and Harriet are known to have had 11 children in Liverpool as follows but 7 of these did not reach the age of 3 years:-
Walter Charles Furby was the son of James Samuel (born 23 Nov 1823) who in turn was the son of John (William) Furby (born 1787) and Sarah at the top of our Furby family tree.
members.ispwest.com /ronsmith/furby/fur_anc.htm   (545 words)

  
 The FYI Furby page
Furby Buddies These cute little bean bags are one of the cheapest Furby items around.
Avoid rip offs the Graduation Furby looks like the original fl and white with the only major physical difference appearing to be a graduation cap.
I have seen two different people who thought their Furby was defective, only to find that if they used 4 new Duracell or "Pink Bunny" batteries, all was well.
www.robinsfyi.com /fun/furby.htm   (1537 words)

  
 Hack Furby
That is, a switch that turns on when the input voltage reaches a certain threshold, but will stay on until the input voltage is significantly lower.
I suspect it's being use to "debounce" furby's sensors; or at least to let furby to "keep his attention" once a certain stimulus (e.g.
The primary goal of HackFurby is to fully document the Furby IR protocol.
www.homestead.com /hackfurby   (365 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Furby: Charcoal Grey with Yellow Belly - Exclusively at Toys"R"Us!: Toys & Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Furby has been resurrected from relative hibernation to join the throng of electronic pets on the toy market—and, truthfully, he’s one of the cuter ones out there.
Furby arrives speaking his native tongue of Furbish, which sounds like a bunch of gibberish to the untrained ear.
He loves this new Furby I got him, it's UNREAL how adorable and life like this thing is. It's facial expressions are incredible and the child prompts given in the instruction book to say to the Furby are clear and precise.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0009I6RVY?v=glance   (1954 words)

  
 CNN - Where's Furby? A problem not even the Net can solve - November 24, 1998
Furbys can communicate with each other through infrared signals and can be taught to speak English.
The good news, she says, is that a million of the Chinese-manufactured toys will be shipped by the end of the year.
Furby's $30 suggested retail price is as scarce as the toy itself.
www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9811/24/furby.idg   (1115 words)

  
 FurbyTech
Since I only have one furby, (It's name is Nava) and Tiger claims that no 2 furbys are alike, I cannot be sure that the information on the page is true for all furbys.
Since koko is also a furbish word, this has resulted in many furbies owners not knowing what the name of thier furby is. This was probably caused by tiger in an attempt to find a quicker way to make furbies in order to satisfy the large demand.
Furbies can only say words that are in their pre-programmed vocabulary.
members.aol.com /webfurby   (430 words)

  
 Time for Kids | Magazines | Adventures with Furby!
With his silly giggle, his ticklish tummy and his own special language, Furby is catching on.
Furby's sneezing is so loud that he interrupts a TFK story meeting.
I take Furby for a ride in a New York City taxi.
www.timeforkids.com /TFK/magazines/story/0,6277,88076,00.html   (287 words)

  
 HackFurby.com - Build your own Furby - Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Furbies are odd little buggers, if nothing else.
Some of them don't mind getting sliced open, their guts torn out, and their insides replaced with odds and ends you can find at the local hobby store...
But seeing as his feet were only pseudopods, he wasn't able to make any sort of attempt at escape, and eventually relented.
www.hackfurby.com /rebuild.html   (187 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Furby Babies at Epinions.com
I was always curious and wanted to play with a Furby when they started to become popular, but I never got a chance to.
Now that their prices are lowered, and since I conveniently found a Furby baby on sale at K-Mart for $9.99, I went ahead and bought...
Ok Baby Furby may not be able to dance and boogie like the big one, but it sure is more fun to play...
www.epinions.com /kifm-Stuffed_Toys-Furby-Furby_Babies   (821 words)

  
 Furby Autopsy: Hacking
All that was said was that the Furby used a processor that was roughly equal in performance to the original 6502--which could mean any number of things: It could be any 8 bit processor running at 1Mhz, not necessarily a 6502.
Personally, if I were designing the Furby, I would make such a signal to be a lengthy signal of IR pulses, as they would be the least likely to be accidentally or deliberately replicated in normal use.
A Furby would likely never generate such a signal, so using a learning remote with sampled Furby IR pulses would never trigger such a mode.
www.phobe.com /furby/hacking.html   (1847 words)

  
 JR.com: HASBRO FURBY - A Personal Pet ( Brick Red ) in Toys:
The evolved FURBY creature features a wide range of emotions and motions, advanced voice recognition, enhanced Communication between kids and other FURBY toys, and an impressive “bilingual” vocabulary of “Furbish” and English.
The emotional response of the new FURBY creature is one of the most noticeable changes from the original.
FURBY creatures can speak, dance, sing, tell jokes, play games and express their moods in a variety of ways.
www.jr.com /xs-hasbro-furby-a-personal-pet-in-toys--pi!4066261.html   (439 words)

  
 Furby Fanatics: It's Almost Time - Lifestyle News - Digital Trends
The lucky 1,000 will receive their Furbys shortly after July 15, which is approximately two weeks before the rest of us will probably not line up to buy one.
Furbys can speak, dance, sing, tell jokes, play games and express their moods in a variety of ways.
The new Furby, according to Hasbro, retains the bi-lingual speaking element that made it so popular seven years ago.
news.digitaltrends.com /article7634.html   (598 words)

  
 Furby Autopsy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
After replacing the batteries, he no longer acted like the happy furby we'd be accustomed to being mildly annoyed by.
This behavior stopped after the first day and he was a healthy furby for a couple days.
Furbies are the intellectual property of Tiger Electronics.
www.phobe.com /furby   (328 words)

  
 Furby
Furbies have an infrared sensor and a photoelectric sensor behind the dark smoked plastic in their foreheads.
It is said that the furby has two microprocessors that are the equivalent of the chips in the Commodore 64 computer of the early 80's (see Furby Autopsy).
Limited edition furbies may look like "Yoda" (actually an interactive yoda adapted from Furby) from Star Wars, or "Gizmo" from the 1984 movie Gremlins even.
www.jeffbots.com /furby.html   (490 words)

  
 AFUNK - Furby Coloring Books
Furby was the invention of Dave Hampton, who runs the toy and game design company Sounds Amazing!
He always wanted to make a little animated character that was as alive as possible.
He spent the next several months - and his own money - developing a prototype Furby.
afunk.com /furby   (96 words)

  
 Furby Returns - Furby Fun - Furby Dictionary, Stories Wallpaper Themes
We dug our Furby Chronicles from the archives, dusted them off and here they are...
Furby is now "Emoto-tronic", and shows more emotion that the 1998 version.
The new Furby will be available in white, fl and white, gray and pink, and brown and pink.
www.bunlimited.com /furby   (178 words)

  
 eBay Guides - New and Improved Furby Lives Up to The Hype
She was hooked after hearing it ask: "you, me, friend, hmm?" Upon her replying yes it exuberantly repied "Yayyyyyyy!" I couldn't believe how lifelike it was as its ears, eyes, and body moved, especially in comparison to the old Furby's.
My daughter wouldn’t put it down which is definitely in contrast to the Furby’s of old that became boring quite early on.
I’ve even read recently that there will inevitably be a shortage due to the computer chip used as Furby’s brains being highly sought after in the industry of interactive toys.
reviews.ebay.com /New-and-Improved-Furby-Lives-Up-to-The-Hype_W0QQugidZ10000000000043520   (486 words)

  
 eBay Chat: Furby
Don't be afraid to whack the doa furbys on a hard surface, that has woken up a few furbys (my daughter got a supposedly dead furby going by accidentally dropping it in a parking lot).
One was a LE furby (Purple body, yellow hair), one was a girraph furby, and one was gray with a white belly.
Bunny, here is a picture to coincide with your message that the furbies were first spotted in the clouds.
chatboards.ebay.com /chat.jsp?forum=1&thread=50   (3640 words)

  
 Furby Store
Furbies are for children 8 years and up, including parents and grandparents who are still young at heart.
Furbies are the coolest toy ever since virtual pets like tomogotchies and giga-pets.
Furbies are better because they talk, move, are cute, have their own language, and they even talk to other furbies!
www.virtualpet.com /pe/books/furbybs/furbybs.htm   (466 words)

  
 Ron's Furby Family History Web Site - Australia
There are a number of Furbys living in Australia today including those descending from John Furby born 1787 and his wife Sarah.
In 1831, John Furby and Thomas Furby were convicted at the Old Bailey in London and sent to Australia.
My great great grandfather (John William Furby born in London in 1812) had a brother James Samuel Furby who was born in 1823.
members.ispwest.com /ronsmith/furby/fur_aus.htm   (208 words)

  
 Newgrounds Presents: Kill Furby!
From the darkness of hell rises Furby, the animatronic bastard son of Gizmo and one of those chickens from the Muppets.
This hellspawn is pure evil - imagine, a fluffy robot that knows light from dark, upside-down from right-side up, petting on the front from petting on the back...
Originally, assassins were allowed to play with Furby and submit their ideas about how he should be killed.
www.newgrounds.com /assassin/furbybrief.html   (224 words)

  
 Randy's Homestead: Furby!: Furby FAQ
A Furby is a cute, animatronic toy that acts much like a real, live pet.
Furby will never learn to say your name (unless your name is CoCo) or any thing else that isn't already programmed into it.
This is best done using a plastic spoon to open Furby's mouth and then press down on the tongue.
www.randyshomestead.com /furbyfaq.htm   (731 words)

  
 Furby Military Academies
Non-graduating Furbies will be returned home in a box (at least, as many pieces as we can recover) and enshrined on the Page of Rememberance.
The Furby Military Academies' Recruiting Posters for recruits as well as instructors.
The Furby Military Academies is a wholly unsubsidized pseudo-paramilitary training academy of the Sovereign Republic of Mapulto.
www.babylonbycandlelight.com /fma/furbymain.htm   (670 words)

  
 eBay Toy Finder - 2005 Furby by Hasbro
The 2005 Furby from Hasbro is an advanced life-like creature who will listen to what you say and respond to you.
Furbies can also speak with other Furbies in both the English language and their own special dialect.
The 2005 Furby suffers from fewer technological glitches than his earlier brethren did.
toyfinder.ebay.com /best_kids_toys/products/2005_furby_from_hasbro.html   (234 words)

  
 Adopt a Furby - Every Furby Deserves a Home
Adopt a Furby is neither endorsed nor supported either by Tiger Electronics or by its parent company, Hasbro, in any way.
Furby Babies are smaller versions of the adult Furby with an extended vocabulary.
AdoptaFurby.com is the only independent online shop based in the UK which specializes in selling the original Furby and Furby Baby released in 1998, 1999 and 2000.
www.adoptafurby.com   (385 words)

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