The new Furby Boom app, which is coming to iOS and Android, ups the ante for Furby activities. Owners can use it to name their Furby -- a name the toy its Furby friends will learn.

Scott Stein/CNET The new app, which I tried on an iPad, has a lot of content: you can encourage your Furby to lay an egg into your iPad (a process that's a little bizarre), which later hatches to ...

The Furby Boom! app is available for iOS devices (through iTunes) and Android devices (through Google Play), so you can use your phone or tablet's screen to interact with the physical toy.

As seen hatching digitally in the Furby Boom app, Furblings are now breaking out their fun and entertainment into real-life physical play," explained Hasbro in its release.

These can also be scanned into the app to unlock an exclusive version of themselves to play with virtually. But here the real excitement is in how they interact with the full size Furby Boom.

Dah-ay-loh-oo-tye, Furby fans (and anyone who spent 1998 cowering in fear of their Furby)! There’s big news on the horizon for Hasbro’s recently relaunched electronic pet — and though we don ...

Forget the Royal Baby, the best-selling toy of last Christmas - the Furby - is being relaunched with an app that allows it to have children.

The Furby Boom! app is available for iOS devices (through iTunes) and Android devices (through Google Play), so you can use your phone or tablet's screen to interact with the physical toy.

The Furby Boom! app is available for iOS devices (through iTunes) and Android devices (through Google Play), so you can use your phone or tablet's screen to interact with the physical toy.

Hasbro's new Furby Boom melds all the interactivity of previous Furby models with pet management and collecting games.