Furby was no doubt one of the creepiest toys to emerge from the 90s, and the dead-eyed robots are finding new ways to horrify 25 years on.
The pointy-eared monstrosities were pitched as an interactive pet with none of the mess back in 1998 and used a combination of sensors and software to develop new behaviours over time. They could detect things like being picked up, being stroked and patted, and communicated with their comrades in their own alien language, before eventually learning some English.
It all sounds a bit AI - and now the true potential of Furby has threatened to be unleashed by a computer science student who hooked one up to
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