Massimo Banzi Wins Demented Genius Award

(((Okay, it's a "demented genius award" from a CNet gadgets blog rather than the Nobel Prize Committee, yet it's also an Italian step sideways toward the furby-ization of everything.)))

(((Maybe somebody could launch a Battlin' Robots
Furby vs Nabaztag Death Match to the stage-diving beat of 8bit blipcore music.... Yeah, a guaranteed arena-filler there, and you heard it here first!)))

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9840431-1.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/2008/01/the_night_the_toys_came_to_lif_1.html

Link: NPR: The Night the Toys Came to Life .

"If you're unsure about what to do with those old and unwanted toys abandoned after Christmas, consider toy hacking. Massimo Banzi of Tinker.it came on the show this morning to tell us how, with a few simple tools and some instructions, you can break into the brains of electronic toys and make them do things their manufacturers never imagined. Check out this hack, in which an electronic cat and some LEDs were turned into a homemade laser tag game...."