October 28, 2003

Perry Final #2

Take the popular Furby toy and reverse engineer it. Instead of cute, weird random noises coming out of it, fill it's inards with a feed back system that plays the following voices...

The Arnold Sounding Board

Posted by Mike at October 28, 2003 03:16 PM

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In 1993, ŪTMark channeled $8000 from a military veterans' group to the Barbie Liberation Organization, which used the investment to switch the voiceboxes of three hundred BarbieTM and G.I. JoeTM dolls.

http://www.rtmark.com/blo.html

(i vaguely remember this causing quite a stir back in '93 - and mostly because it was an early project accomplished through online mobilization only, and which had 'real world' effects.)

Posted by: susana at November 3, 2003 11:58 PM

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