[beavis_voice] Yea, this is like cool in stuff, heh heh. [/beavis_voice] http://www.voltnet.com/humor/furby/movies/furbytest.mov
Sigh..you're right but still very funny. Info taken from the site. Test Setup: After a great deal of research our technicians decided that the millions of volts and hundreds of thousands of amperes in a typical lightning stroke might actually be a tad much for our test. We decided to use 20,000 volts at approximately 4kVA for an extended duration. Instead of vaporizing the Furby in a split second, this would allow us to study the toy's failure mode. That is if it failed at all. We are still hoping to someday find a product that can survive our tests and receive the coveted "VoltNet.com Testing Labs Safety Certification". Anyway after the testing methodology had been decided upon, we set up our highly complex, advanced, and sinister looking testing equipment. The Furby was placed on a conductive pizza pan which was connected to one side of our state-of-the-art 20,000 volt power supply (pole transformer). In this test the pizza pan simulates the ground beneath a Furby in a lightning storm. Next a rod electrode was placed approximately one inch away from the infrared sensor in the Furby's head. This infrared sensor allows a Furby to actually detect motion around it (seriously!). If you enter a room containing a sleeping Furby, it will wake and start asking you to play with it. If you do not play with it, the Furby will engage you in a test of wills by asking again, and again, and again.... Phase One: No power applied. Furby appears normal. Animatronic and sound electronics functioning. Ears moving up and down. Toy saying "Cock-a-doodle-doo" and making other odd sounds. Phase Two: Application of power: 20,000v 4kVA. Immediate arc to Furby's head area. Total insulation failure. Continuous application of high voltage arc for a good five or ten minutes more...we sort of lost track. Power supply functioning within normal operational parameters. Phase Three: Power discontinued. Unaided and vigorous self-combustion observed. NOTE: At this point after being completely silent during the test, the Furby started rocking back and forth while making creepy buzzing and whirring sounds. Some of our technicians having seen one too many "Chucky" movies fled the facility in terror and have yet to return. One remaining technician began screaming "Die Furby die!!!" and before he could be properly restrained and sedated, turned on the power again. This quieted the sinister animatronic toy menace for good. Phase Four: The unaided self-combustion continued for about fifteen minutes until the toy was eventually reduced to a smoking pile of toxic ashes. Conclusion : Complete and catastrophic product failure Toy completely carbonized Probably cause: Inferior insulation This toy failed our test miserably. We find its lack of lightning resistance disturbing. Its tendency towards unaided self-combustion could prove a problem as well. Our conclusion was that none of us would want to be caught in the middle of a field in a thunderstorm with nothing but a Furby for shelter.
