Velocity Alert: The Reinvented Tamagotchi: Bright, Flashy and Just as Needy

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The Reinvented Tamagotchi: Bright, Flashy and Just as Needy NEW YORK -- Tamagotchi, the company behind the 90s handheld virtual pet toy of the same name, is launching a new device that wants to be your e-best friend. But the toy, called Tamagotchi Friends ($19.99), is actually more like a needy person in your life that wants you to do everything. Feed him. Potty train him. How does Mashable know what's going viral? Mashable built a system called Velocity, which scours the social web, collecting lots and lots of data around how people are engaging with published articles. It then pulls all of that data back to Mashable, dumps it into our own predictive engine, and predicts which articles are about to go viral. Read more at Mashable.com ▶ Mashable, Inc. is a Delaware Corporation. P.O. Box 64 New York, NY, 10159-0064

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