Created in 1998 by Dave Hampton on the heels of the successful Tamagotchi, Furby and 'with 6 sensors located throughout the body, enabling him to move and behave like a domestic pet. worldwide have been sold more than 40 million, earning the top of the charts of best-selling toys in the world. The first Furby have 24 names, three different tones of voice, six colors of hair and eyes of four colors (blue, green, brown and gray) with over 1000 combinations of Furby on the market, counting the color of fur, eyes and sound of the voice and are able to perform more than 300 combinations of movements of eyes, ears and mouth. The Furby can also influence each other. For example, if one sneezes or falls ill, the others can do the same.
The official language of Furby is furbish.
Furby is arguably the first electronic pet / interactive robotics has led to join with the technology applied to toys. Years later, and other toys that take advantage of its popularity, Furby is still considered the best, beloved by children and adults. With his soft voice and her mysterious language (which is said to be born from the union of Jewish, Chinese, Japanese and English) and its ability to evolve (Furby reaches four stages of "growth") make Furby a successful experiment technology and entertainment that has ever created more curiosity about a toy (not to mention the price that makes it inaccessible to its first exit). The Furby that you can buy on the internet or in some collector's shop may even behave differently depending on their personality.
FAQ
1.Chi invented Furby? Dave Hampton and Caleb Chung are the inventors of the Furby. After the highly successful launch of Tamagotchi and Giga Pets (the American line of virtual pets) Hampton Dave designed an interactive toy that could be really pampered, with its own language and the evolutionary process, able to "learn" by interacting with him. The name derives from the combination of Furby fur (fur) and ball (ball) and literally means "ball of fur."
3.How Furby models are on the market?
colors of fur there are a variety of types, there are only Furby Furby Babies and Furby, smaller than the other but not with less features. In 2000 and 2001, Tiger Electronics, a subsidiary of Hasbro, launched on the market even more interactive characters like ET, Gizmo (the pet good for the film "Gremlins"), Yoda and Shelby, never released in our country. Shelby was the last electronic character created by Dave Hampton, who received but not the commercial success of Furby. Technology with an electronic memory is greater than all others. All Furby Babies and Furby can communicate with ET, Gizmo, Yoda and Shelby. In 2005, Hasbro relaunched on the market Furby Emoto-tronic and later a new Furby Baby.
To see all the generations / models Furby available here.
4.E Furby can teach new words?
Furby can not learn words that are not already contained in memory. Words Furby "learns" come out magically as you interact with him. Furby through four growth stages: the first stage furbish speaks exclusively in the second and third uses a few words of Italian (or more, depending on the language of the country in which it was produced) in the fourth and final stage currently uses both Italian and furbish.
5.What is the memory size of Furby?
This answer was never provided by the manufacturer, it is said, however, is that Furby has a vocabulary of more than 160 words that can be combined to obtain 600 different sentences. Furby Baby, however, can say more than 180 words that can form more than 800 different sentences.
6.How can turn Furby?
Furby and Baby Furby not have an on / off button. They can only be asleep (see answer below) and you do not play with them for a long period you should remove the batteries.
7.The batteries that power the funzionamento durano poco?
Furby funziona con 4 pile stilo (o stilo ricaricabili). Le pile durano in media svariate ore di piena attività, dopodichè Furby comincia a non funzionare correttamente, sarà dunque necessario sostituire le pile. Le pile ricaricabili durano in media molto di più di quelle usa e getta.
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