Pocket-Lint: Furby, the cute and cuddly electronic pet, is back and this time is is more responsive, more intelligent and interacts with an accompanying iPad, iPhone and iPod touch application. Owners can feed their Furby using the app, play music the robot creature may dance too (if it likes it), and even use their iOS device to translate Furbish, the language the Furbies speak.
Cnet: Fourteen years later, Furby emerges again with more expressions and just as much uncontrollable enthusiasm. Can it recapture its lost Furbish glory?
Engadget - Of all the childhood toys to update for the early 21st century, the Furby seems like a no-brainer. After all, the hairy ball of amalgamated animal strangeness packed in electronics so baffled the general public that it managed to get itself banned from the Pentagon as a threat to national security. After the Furby was first decommissioned in 2000 (managing to sell an impressive 40 million units in its first three years), Hasbro attempted to revamp the line in 2005 with Emtro-Tronic Furbies, bigger versions of the toy that brought increased facial emotions and voice recognition, failing to recapture the success of the original line.
With all the new tech, sensors, etc a Furby2 really does make sense. The older generation may remember their own Furby, while kids seem to like more and more technology in their lives. It'll be fun to see if this version could succeed where the 2005 version failed. Whether success or failure, it'll be interesting to see WHY.
Oh deary me. No more Furby since I passed the age of 6.
Dude, these things always scared the sh*t out of me...
always reminded me of grimlins.
hated these as a kid especially when mcdonalds had that bright idea to release it as a toy.
Creep factor of +30