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The Verge·2026-03-08 12:01
I did all this research on Dave Hampton. He always liked to say that he didn't want the Furby to do anything that seemed stupid. And not stupid in that sense, but stupid in the like, oh, it should be able to do this.Why can't it do it. That's the reason Furby doesn't have hands. It's the reason it doesn't have legs.Because the idea was, we don't have the technology to make it so that it can grab something or that it can walk. And the idea of this thing having arms that just do nothing, they thought made it ...