NEW YORK (AP) -- When Lori Fowlkes first saw robotic Zhu Zhu Pets toy hamsters in September, she remembers her kids started jumping up and down and saying "Please! Please! Can we buy them?"...
Robotic Hamsters Are Holidays' Unlikely New Craze
By MAE ANDERSON, Associated Press
Thu, 11/26/2009 - 10:48am
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