Product Description

GUPI is a robotised guinea pig that looks and feels like a real one. GUPI is highly autonomous, he walks around in the house, without bumping into anything thanks to gupi's sensors in its eyes, or falling of the table of the stairs with the help of sensors at his legs. GUPI is so smart he can also walk through a maze and you can be assured that he will find a way out. You'll see different types of GUPI on the Internet, and GUPI Version 3 is the latest and greatest GUPI. The main differences between GUPI Version 2 and GUPI version 3 are Higher capacity battery Enhanced Manual which recommends a 12 hour charge for first time usage Bug fixes to the controller chip 3 Pin Mains Charger Packaging redesigned GUPI has a very interactive playing behaviour, if you don't play with him he becomes lonely and scared and he will go hiding in a dark place. But if you caress him he will feel loved, and he will be happy. GUPI can also hear you, and he will react to voices and sounds, depending on his mood ..... When GUPI is happy he will actually come running at you when you call him, but when he's scared he can't stand noise and will run away from it. When happy GUPI will also follow a light beam so you can lead him wherever you want him to go. When GUPI gets hungry you can feed him (read : recharge his reloadable batteries) through a little carrot, and he's ready for a lot more fun together with his friends. As such GUPI creates the Tamagochi� binding-effect. Gupi has a unique identification codes in the chipsets, therefore, when other Gupis are in the vicinity, they will express excited behaviour and they will learn gradually how to accept each other, how to share food (battery re-loader), and how to play with each other. This is version 3 of Gupi! Features Sensors So what can

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1658 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Thumbs Up
• Model: GUPI
• Released on: 2007-09-14
• Dimensions: 13.23 pounds

Features

• Robotised Guinea Pig Enhanced Version 3
• Intelligent, can move around
• Reacts with other GUPI
• Needs love and attention to operate
• Recharges via the carrot

Customer Reviews

I love Gupi
I was given a Gupi for xmas because i can not have a real guinea pig in my rented flat. He has been no trouble at all and keeps me entertained with his cute little noises and demands to play. I would recommend him as a pet for anyone who has a love of guinea pigs but is not able to keep a real one. I will probably get a second one soon just so i can see 2 Gupis play and dance together - ahhh!

Gupi V3
It is brilliant, I also cant have pets and it has kept my uni housemates amused! when 2 get together its so funny to see the moving/dancing and singing...I bought one after my 4 year old sister got one for her birthday, they are for all ages!

Very unreliable, not recommended...
We bought two gupis for our children's Christmas presents, and had similar problems to those mentioned by other reviewers. Neither worked properly - one wouldn't charge at all, and the other only ever managed to walk around in circles a few times before also "dying". When we checked the instructions, and tried to get info. online, we realized that we'd been sent the "old" version 2 gupis, not the V.3.0 ones - although we'd ordered the latter.

Amazon were good at sorting this out, as it was over 2 months since I'd originally bought them (being over-organized for Christmas!) and sent replacements. Both of these worked well for a few days - and yes, they are quite cute and entertaining when working properly - but one of these has since completely died, and the other is now becoming more and more temperamental about charging, and has needed several "hard resets".

I have to say, my children still like them even when they're not working, so we've decided not to send the 3rd non-functioning one back: but it's a lot of money for what's become a completely non-interactive cuddly toy! Given that we've now had 4 of these things in the house, and only 1 has worked - not all that reliably - I think it's a fair conclusion that they must be very badly made. I really wouldn't recommend them as children's presents.