Product Recall? Buckyballs Are Dangerous to Swallow

This is why we can’t have nice things. People keep swallowing them.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has requested a recall of the magnetic toys known as Buckyballs and Buckycubes because they pose a serious health hazard to children who ingest them. Buckyballs are small, spherical rare-earth metal magnets—about the size of BB pellets—that can be arranged into fun shapes or mashed into a tangled mess of nothing.