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 ...

"Mommy, I want that for Christmas!" Of course in mom mode, I looked up and said, "Want what?" My 5-year-old cheerfully said, "Fingerlings!" I'm like finger what? A quick Google search, and I quickly ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Shoppers rushing to find Fingerlings, the robotic monkeys that are a hot toy this holiday season, say they've been fooled into buying fakes through outside sellers on Amazon and ...

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 ...

Readers, young and old, lend me your ears. There's still time to get those holiday gifts requests in; and if your list for Santa is looking a little barren, I've got what you need: teeny, tiny animals ...

A $14.99 toy hardly bigger than your finger has the retail world worked up to a fever pitch. This holiday season, droves of parents have been on the search for Fingerlings — toy monkeys, unicorns and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Super duper soft,” said one child toy expert of this plush, huggable monkey. (Photo: Walmart) You probably remember WowWee ...