{"id":1338,"date":"2017-09-22T15:02:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T19:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/busytot.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2024-06-06T23:25:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T03:25:25","slug":"wowwee-fingerlings-wearable-smart-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/22\/wowwee-fingerlings-wearable-smart-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"WowWee Fingerlings, a Wearable Smart Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you haven’t yet met the Fingerlings<\/a>, you soon will.  They’re already getting hyped up as the <\/em><\/strong>toy of the 2017 holiday season (a la Hatchimals<\/a>).  Given I’ve two girls that will probably want the hell out of these things, I figured it’s worth a dig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first glance, these things appear to be the next evolution of… finger puppets – tech-enabled dolls that are worn like rings.  The arms and legs (and tail) of each monkey coil around a finger, literally keeping your kid’s hands busy.  The cling is strong enough that the monkeys can even hang upside down.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ok, that’s cute, but what do they do?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A lot, actually.  The monkeys come in different colors, and each has its own name and “personality” (though as far as we can tell, all of the monkeys come with the same palette of interactions and sounds).  The monkey responds to a variety of triggers by making funky monkey sounds, blinking, shaking its head around, laughing, sneezing, singing, or burping – there are 40 responses in all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a large number of ways to trigger the monkey:<\/p>\n\n\n\n