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  1. Re:Why not digital? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Fighting Music Piracy with Glue

    Yes. They're called Hit Clips, and they're made by Tiger. They hold 1-2 minutes of music on a chip.

  2. The DMCA would have killed the PC industry. by Animats · · Score: 2 · on Sony Uses DMCA To Shut Down Aibo Hack Site
    If the DMCA had been in effect in 1980, there would be no plug-compatible PC industry. It would have been illegal to reverse-engineer the IBM BIOS and write compatible replacements. The whole PC industry wouldn't have happened.

    Meanwhile, there's the i-Cybie, which does almost as much as the Aibo, but costs $200. From the makers of the Furby(tm).

  3. Easter Shopping by T1girl · · Score: 1 · on No X Box for Xmas?

    You don't have to wait for Xmas for new electronic toys. Check out Interactive Shelby, Tiger's new Furby-on-a-halfshell. ("My shell opens and closes especially if I'm scared or surprised")
    NYTimes article has discovered a new toy shopping season: advertisements for new toys in the spring could lead to demands not just for chocolate eggs and jelly beans but for electronic clams and robots as well.

    Only one more shopping day till Easter.

  4. Re:Poo-Chi by linuxonceleron · · Score: 2 · on Second Generation Aibo Specs Officially Released

    http://www.tigertoys.com/poochi/index.html has more information on the robot.

  5. What a girl wants by T1girl · · Score: 1 · on Your Holiday Present Wish List

    Cheapest: Yoda Furby
    Not-so-cheap: Sapphire ring
    Unlimited: Trip to Barbados

  6. Hitclip Player, McDonalds, Britney Spears N'Sync by billstewart · · Score: 2 · on The Virtual Tip Jar
    Funny you should mention McDonalds in the context of Britney Spears and N'Sync. I was in a McDonalds the other day, and in addition to promoting Britney Spears and N'Sync CDs and videos, they also had the Tiger Hitclip Player, a ~$5 widget that plays 1-inch-square memory chips with 60-second music recordings. I didn't have time to look at the technology or hear the sound quality, but besides Tiger's web site, there's an AP Wire story about one of the big toy shows where these things were demoed - you can get a player and an alarm clock, and there's a recording device as well, so if blanks are readily available and cheap, you can record clips and give them to your friends. Wonder how soon somebody starts issuing Pokemon stickers for the things :-)

    ===== From AP Wire Story =====

    Tiger, which is owned by toy giant Hasbro Inc., has the Yahoo! HitClips Downloader ($20). Kids can plug the unit into the speaker jack of their computer, play any music or audio they want online and record up to 60 seconds of the sound on a computer chip in the downloader. The recorded selection then can be played on the transportable downloader or on any of Tiger's HitClip products, including an alarm clock ($15), a boom box ($11) and a personal audio player ($8) -- none of which are linked to the computer.
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