Canadian Toy Testing Council's top toys in its 2006 Toy Report includes a train set that talks and sings, a $240 play castle and electronic virtual pets.

They're truly virtual pets in that sense, as they can wander exactly where you don’t want them to, and they'll be interested in the most random items when you're performing your everyday PC tasks.

Digital Terrarium – Pogona is a simple virtual pet game. As the title implies, it’s a virtual terrarium set up to care for a pogona lizard, more commonly known as a bearded dragon.

A new AR game called Peridot, which casts a virtual pet companion into the real world using your phone, arrives May 9 promising some sort of social connectivity through virtual pet ownership.

Online searches for NFT pets surged during the pandemic. The question is, are our digital furry friends here to stay as we enter the era of the Metaverse and Web 3.0, or were they just a COVID fad?

Virtual fostering wasn’t the only pet tech featured at the 11th annual tech conference, which drew dozens of healthcare, business and tech experts over two days in Miami Beach.

Telus Health MyPet functions similarly to Telus’s virtual medicine offerings for humans; pet owners download the app onto their smartphones and create a profile for their pet. Once that’s done ...

Tiger Giga Pets (1997) Not to be outdone by Bandai, well-known LCD game maker Tiger Electronics created its own line of virtual pets called Giga Pets in 1997.