[Zach Levine] wrote in to share a project just completed: a classic Furby packing a Raspberry Pi running Alexa: he calls it Furlexa. The original Furby product wowed consumers of the 90s.

The original Furby toys did not have anything more complex inside of them than a 6502-derived MCU and a Ti TSP50C04 IC for speech synthesis duties, with the supposed ‘learning’ process using a ...

Update: A Hasbro spokesperson has informed NJ Advance Media that the new Furby toys have sold out, but the toymaker will restock them later this week. “The initial sales of the next generation ...

But one last browse deep into the web reveals a stunning new find - a dossier of evidence which includes the original NSA memo about the Furby... and within it, the real reason it was banned by ...