> That said, this article proves we have way too many battery-powered toys that make noise…
I was never bothered by that. The real trial by fire for a parent are wooden toys - really loud when they hit the floor, can actually hurt and don't have any batteries to pull out.
Anyway my daughter has the most recent generation of Furby given by a friend of mine working for Hasbro, whose annual bonus is apparently paid in kind.
The toy is pretty sophisticated with actual, though rudimentary, voice recognition and the ability to detect and record speech, which it repeats to you with different effects, but outside from that follows a pretty strict script and I was unable to produce any errors.
I was never bothered by that. The real trial by fire for a parent are wooden toys - really loud when they hit the floor, can actually hurt and don't have any batteries to pull out.
Anyway my daughter has the most recent generation of Furby given by a friend of mine working for Hasbro, whose annual bonus is apparently paid in kind.
The toy is pretty sophisticated with actual, though rudimentary, voice recognition and the ability to detect and record speech, which it repeats to you with different effects, but outside from that follows a pretty strict script and I was unable to produce any errors.