Except that these *are* a couple of years old - the original dot-com-bubble versions ran off a pager network, and you hit the web page at the service to configure them, so all they needed was power, and could monitor your stocks in a more soothing way than pounding on reload all the time. There are new versions that are USB and you can control them more directly - brookstone and thinkgeek have them, I think.
(I've always found them dreadfully pricey for what they do - a PIC chip and a bank of new-style r-g-b color LEDs and you're up to maybe $15 in parts... Pretty, though...)
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Hopefully not.
I think I'm very glad that the glowing eggs and the Furby craze are separated by a nice barrier of time, a couple years thick.
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(I've always found them dreadfully pricey for what they do - a PIC chip and a bank of new-style r-g-b color LEDs and you're up to maybe $15 in parts... Pretty, though...)
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No, wait, that's not a promise... :-)