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> Surprisingly sophisticated. I distinctly remember them being advertised as intelligent little friends who learn about you.
by nofunsir 8y ago
> Surprisingly sophisticated.
I distinctly remember them being advertised as intelligent little friends who learn about you.
- pinewurst 8y agoLike Google and Facebook?
- shoo 8y agoYour own, personal, surveillance capitalism golem
- taneq 8y agoThey didn't have a network connection, did they? So they're much more your own personal surveillance golem than anything put out these days by Mattel (or anyone else selling internet-connected devices) which are all very much someone else's surveillance golem.
- EvanAnderson 8y agoThey have an IR sensor and emitter. That's a network of a fashion.
- xg15 8y agoWell yes, but it's missing the giant cloud backend that will record every interaction and the tangle of Big Data, adtech and other analytics companies on the other side.
- cafard 8y agoThe feds did ban Furbies from secure facilities.
- fredrikhl 8y agoI'd like to meet the agent trying to bring his Furby to work.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoRest assured that this was creepy, too. Albeit for moderately different reasons.
- Izkata 8y agoLikewise here, one of the factoids that got tossed around pretty regularly was that all the physical actions were controlled by a single motor, with sophisticated mechanisms and coding to make it look independent.
- Sem1Sort 8y agoIt was absolutely the draw, but I can't say I figured them to be brilliant