Have you seen Elmo live?

Have you seen this toy?
TechEBlog » VIDEO: Elmo Live Talks, Sings, and Dances

Simply amazing how all this motion with so few components. Only 3 motors and this thing can articulate at the elbow, laughs, sits, waves it's arms, moves it's head. My wife bought me one for Valentines day.

Project Elmo commences. Muhaha... She thought I would have fun taking it apart. She knows me too well.

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Grandaughter thinks it's great.

Just started Dancing in the kitchen.


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I am surprised no one sees the cleverness in this simple toy... I thought it was a testament to mans ingenuity.

ingenious sure, but it's likely to be a toy that gets used (not sure how a kid would actually play with it) and then put aside for other stuff. Once the novelty of it wears off, its not much to look at.

My daughter had one of the original tickle me elmo dolls. Compared to this it sure wasn't much - just a stuffed elmo doll with a little plastic box stuffed inside it that when you pressed the button on it would play elmo laughing his butt off. Simple - but it was odd how it could actually start making you laugh as well. Plus, you could take the box out and the kid had a regular stuffed animal - not some hard skeleton covered in fabric.

Take off all the red fur and it's the stuff nightmares are made of.
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Egad Furby looks much worse.
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