Furby

The Furby is an animatronic toy for children, young people and adults, which has interactive software. The toy contains basic programming that simulates learning to communicate. It is manufactured by Tiger Electronics, a subsidiary of Hasbro. On the day of its launch, its sales skyrocketed and many people had to wait hours in lines outside stores to get a Furby. ^{[citation needed]} Although their initial price was about 30 dollars, the demand for the dolls during the summer holidays of '98 caused resale prices to increase up to the 100 dollars. More than 27 million copies were sold in its first year on the market, since its appearance in a 2006 Super Bowl advertisement was involved in controversy due to an "erotic" of the same toy, thus causing its massive sale in the following months.^{[citation required]}.

From its appearance, a Furby is a hybrid between a mouse, cat, bat and owl.

So far, there are four generations of Furby, the first two with a baby Furby variant, called Furby Baby.

The attraction it offers is its apparent "intelligence" and ability to learn by improving its speaking abilities. It was wrongly believed that they could repeat what they heard around them, so some intelligence agencies prohibited the doll from entering their offices. It can also communicate via an infrared port. The Furbys start out speaking only in Furbish, a language made up of a few words, simple syllables and various sounds, but they are programmed to speak less and less Furbish and more Spanish (or the language of the country in which they live). has distributed) as you talk to him. Each Furby included a spoon to feed him.

The list of external sensors (and therefore the stimuli that we can send to the Furby) includes: infrared emitter and receiver, inversion detector (Furby upside down), tongue (pulsation when feeding), back and belly (pressure buttons) and simple microphone (to listen to noises).

They are popular among some hackers, who have managed to interact with the Furbys using infrared signals.

Types of Furbys

The types of Furbys are:

• Classic Furbys:
  • Furby Babies
  • Furby Friends
• Emoto-Tronic Furbies:
  • Emoto-Tronic Furby Babies
  • Emoto-Tronic Funky
• 2012 Furbies:
  • Furby Party Rockers
  • Furby Boom
  • Furblings
  • Furbacca
• Furby Connect
• Furby 2023
• Furby Tie dye

Furby Babies

In August 1999, a new Furby line appeared, Furby baby. They were smaller dolls than the original, they couldn't move their feet and they 'learned' Spanish more easily.

Furby 2nd generation

In October 2004, the second generation of Furbys appeared, preceded by an advertising campaign. The commercial chain El Corte Inglés began reservations for the new Furby at the beginning of September. With the new Furby, a DVD was given with an animated film and a Furby birth certificate.

They are larger than the previous ones, but equipped with facial expressiveness and a voice recognition system that allows greater interaction with humans. In addition, it includes the option to send it 'to sleep' with a simple order, the lack of all his predecessors. It is capable of swaying laterally by moving its legs, and moves its belly when speaking.

The new Furby is capable of 'relating' with others of his generation, and also with those before. However, since it does not have an infrared port like the previous generation, communication is limited.

Furby Boom

In 2012, Hasbro announced the marketing of a new Furby, whose main novelties are eyes made up of LCD panels capable of showing different types of eyes and symbols, the bad thing is that they contain a spy camera equipped with eyes, a new connectivity, an improvement in movements and the impossibility of turning it off or resetting it, since it saves its personality in its memory which will be shaped depending on how you treat it. However, there is still the possibility of putting it to sleep. Also available is the free Furby app for the App Store and Google. It also presents a notable improvement in the microphone: now they are able to move in time with the music by swinging and taking short jumps. Its applications can make you dance, eat and translate the Furbish language, it is only available for Android phones and tablets (since the programs are invalid for Apple since the iOS 11 update). To use its applications you need to install Google play.

In the summer of 2014 a new Furby was released with new different colors and new personalities. It has a manufacturer app for iOS and Android (for Android 2.3.3 or higher), called Furby BOOM, with new features. The following year, the Furby Crystal line was launched, which was part of Furby BOOM, but with new colors and new personalities included, plus its eyes and camera, paws and ears look like diamonds.

Furby Connect

In 2016, a new Furby model arrives with an antenna that would be its main novelty, since it improves the communication capacity between other Furbies of its generation and those of the last generation. It has severe differences from its previous model, among those are its new design, its new movements, it depends more on the application, it only has a fixed personality that apparently only speaks English.

Furby 2023

The return of Furby after being banned for containing spy cameras, with new designs on almost his entire body

Furby Tie dye

Almost the same Furby from 2023, nothing more than it seems to have been colored with the Tie dye art technique, similar to the first Furby Tie dye, having the characteristic of having a rainbow color with the Tie dye technique, like his 2023