Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Mommy, make the red monkey stop following me!

Now I love toys that change - trucks that turn into robots, cars that turn into planes and the like. But New Zealand has taken it to a whole new level.

The award-winning toy, Bindeez, is a set of small beads that can be affixed to one another to create figurines, designs and jewelry. Recently, it was found that small beads containa chemical that the body metabolises into gamma-hydroxy butyrate (GHB).

That is right, Toys that turn into drugs. A full recall has been ordered.

In an completely unassociated story, hordes of teenagers and college students have been getting in touch with their inner-child and have hitting toy stores in mass...

Read the first story here.

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