Task: Text Simplification
Input (English): history birth of the furby dave hampton and caleb chung created the furby in merely nine months -lrb- in addition to an additional nine months spent designing the toy -rrb-.
Output (English): history- birth of the furby : dave hampton and caleb chung made the furby in only nine months -lrb- plus another nine months spent designing the toy -rrb-.