It’s that time of the year when the dry, cold air causes big problems with kids – especially when they have colds. Maybe this is just what they need.

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Since you shouldn’t have your own real monkey, go for the next best thing: A Tandars Interactive Monkey. Kind of like a souped-up Furby, Tandars are life-like pets that interact through touch, motion, and a 50-word vocabulary. They can open and close their eyes, move their heads, grab things with their touch-sensitive hands, and interact with other Tandars. Weird and amazing!

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Take off the monkey’s head, and you’ve got a fan. Perfect for those times when you need a small amount of wind. Yup.

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In a way that I’m not entirely clear, you place your coins in the bowl, and the coins end up in the bank. Does the monkey pick them up and eat them? Maybe. For $15 I’m tempted to buy one of these banks just to find out.

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Scary yet functional, the Robot Monkey Robotector iPhone Case is made from durable silicone and comfortable snuggles your iPhone in it’s protective grip. Not only will this provide protection from drops and falls, I suspect that your phone is a little less likely to be stolen when wrapped in one of these. I wouldn’t want to touch it, that’s for sure.

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This is a nice sized 8GB flash drive with some nice specs. But what I don’t understand is why one of the monkeys appears to be carrying a house to the other monkey. Is that’s what’s going on? Does the pink monkey love the yellow monkey so much it bought it a house? Or… what? My guess is that this is some weird seizure-inducing Japanese cartoon. But I have no idea.

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Not five minutes after posting the horrible plush monkey iPod speakers I get an email from an intrepid user pointing me to this awesome Micro Monkey Portable Speaker. I’m not sure about plugging it into his butt, but it’s still cute!

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I like the idea behind this iPod speaker, but it’s just awful looking. It looks like it was taken from a really bad Japanese cartoon. Come on Japan, you can do better!

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Those are some sweet earphones. Plus it has a microphone, so you can use these with your smartphone of choice!

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Dance for me, monkey! Dance!

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