<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 08/18/2001 8:19:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
<BR>CCartCat@aol.com writes:</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">
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<BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">>Just curious: What did you think of it?
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<BR>There wasn't anything too too spectacular as far as modifications went, but
<BR>it was a barrel of fun. They had a little section with "sideshow freak"
<BR>theme, with one enclosure housing pair of furbies wired together as siamese
<BR>twins (one's sensors controlling the other) as well as a tickle-me-elmo with
<BR>the head modified to accept a furby's eyes and mouth, and the furbies IR
<BR>sensor triggering the voice in the tickle-me-elmo. (Something with a furby
<BR>face going "Oh boy, that tickles!"...rather unsettling) The exhibit included
<BR>very detailed anatomical drawings of the furby's innards, very neat the look
<BR>at, but the centerpiece was the "reflection loop" 400 furbies mounted on a
<BR>huge board covering one wall, with holes for the eyes, mouth and sensors of
<BR>each. the IR transmitter from one reflects back from a person into the sensor
<BR>on an adjacent furby, making it start to babble..I spent some time standing
<BR>there waving an arm across the wall slowly and watching this trail of furbies
<BR>babbling and opening their eyes and mouths following its path. Decordova is
<BR>far more fun than the Museum of Fine Arts, that's for sure. (I had to take
<BR>notes there for a paper in college, and got harassed by 3 security gaurds for
<BR>having my laptop plugged into a wall outlet, allegedly "stealing their
<BR>electricity"...never mind the dozens of incandescent bulbs blazing everywhere
<BR>in the gallery)
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<BR>-Chris
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