Tired of those Beanie Babies yet? Well, get ready for the Giga Pets, scheduled to hit such Chicago stores as Toys “R” Us and probably your child’s “gotta have” list next week. And unlike the Beanie ...

Walk into 100 different classrooms and you might encounter 100 different techniques for encouraging students to go the extra mile. The motivational boost once provided by a sticker or gold star now ...

Everyone’s snapping up those wild new digital mini-pets. Are you holding out, wondering which virtual pet to put out the bucks for? We tested one of Tiger’s Giga Pets ($10; above right) and Bandai’s ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. A North Shore investor and former maker of the Giga-Pet ...

Roger Shiffman was perfectly cast as the public face of a toy company, Tiger Electronics Inc., maker of Furby, Giga Pets and other hits of the 1980s and 1990s. He had a jungle of curly brown hair and ...

This contest has ended. Visit our contests page to find the newest prizes! Some parents might remember the virtual pet toy fad back in the ’90s where you would take care of your pets on a palm-sized ...

Every millennial has know the joy and heartbreak of loving an electronic pet. Be it of the virtual pet variety like Tamagotchi and Giga Pets, the cell phone paradise of Neko Atsume, or the not quite ...