This holiday season, a $14.99 toy hardly bigger than your finger put parents in a frenzy. Fingerlings — toy monkeys, unicorns and sloths that cling to your fingers and react to touch and sound by ...

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About two years ago, Sydney Wiseman had a challenging assignment for an engineer at her family toy company. Could he design a small robotic toy that resembled a pygmy marmoset, a tiny Amazonian monkey ...

The prosthetic limb, the size of a child's arm, has working shoulder and elbow joints and is equipped with a simple gripper to grasp and hold food. View Slideshow If a monkey is hungry but has his ...

Sydney Wiseman, a member of the family who runs the Canadian toy company WowWee who came up with the idea for the Fingerling, a 5-inch toy monkey, in Montreal, Nov. 28, 2017. The $15 motorized plastic ...

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