Lee’s Journal

Girls, if you used to listen to radio and hug your favorite soft toy in bed, then you may choose Kapo Super Monkie Radio. It’s a cute stuffed pinky monkey toy with built-in fully functional FM radio. This portable Kapo Super Monkie portable radio is shaped like a giant monkey’s head, weighs like an average teddy bear (410 grams) and measures 433mm from ear to ear.

The Power (On / Off), Scan and Reset functions are embedded in the sleeping monkey’s hair, while the volume controls are in its ears. The larger ear on right for volume increase and vice versa for the smaller one on left.

More information and review about the Kapo Super Monkie Radio on Cnet Asia:

Besides basic radio scanning, the Kapo radio does not come equipped with any display; quite a downer since we would never be really sure which station we are at (till the DJ announces it). Presetting of stations is also not possible on this radio.

The Kapo radio runs on two AAA-sized batteries, with the battery compartment hidden neatly at the back of the device. As a personal radio, it would have been useful if a earphone jack was made available.

With the speaker hidden beneath the stuffing, we were surprised that the audio signal came through without sounding muffled. Radio reception was also pretty good with relatively good signals coming through even from within a building.

However, we did notice a slight anomaly with the scanning function which failed to loop back to the beginning of the FM spectrum after it had reached the last radio station. In order to remedy it, it was necessary to turn off and on the device to start scanning from the beginning.

Well, this could be the right gift for girls on Valentine’s day but where to buy it? I googled it but couldn’t find any shop to order either online or offline. Instead, I found a quite useful information of the availability of Kapo Super Monkie Radio from a blog managed by Malaysian bloggers, posted on August 23, 2005:

However, currently its only available in Singapore & Hong Kong. The location in Sg (Singapore - editor) are:
1) Cocoon at Cineleisure
2) Kalm’s outlets at Ngee Ann City, Centrepoint
3) Lovely Land at Bugis Junction

According to the agent (ACE CLOVER ENTERPRISE SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED), it will be made available in Msia (Malaysia - editor) soon…

via The Gadget Blog

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