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Most of the discussion in the comments here have been about whether it is better to protect children or allow adults freedom. Yawn! The best comments here are
by FiatLuxDave 12y ago
Most of the discussion in the comments here have been about whether it is better to protect children or allow adults freedom. Yawn! The best comments here are those from jzwinck, termain, and rfatnabayeff, which provide possible technical fixes to the problem. I would have much more respect for Zen Magnets if they took a good product with a problem, and made it better by hacking around the problem, rather than just fighting "the good fight".
- joshdance 12y agoHere are the three comments about ways to solve the issues: jzwinck - "The article mentions two possible paths forward, but I can think of a third. Make the spheres large enough that swallowing is impractical. 1.75 inches seems to be a standard for this. Would giant magnetic spheres not be fun to play with?" termain - "Why not coat them in an emetic?" rfatnabayeff - "There's a much more safe alternative with almost same possibilities - a kinda "balls-and-magnetick-sticks". In that case, spheres are just metallic, not magnetic. Only joints, sticks, have magnetic ends capped inside the plastic. These spheres are much safer and the visualizing abilities of that toy is almost the same."