Comment Re:In toys? (Score 1) 284
Your statement makes it sounds like they are crazy dangerous or something. I have used plenty of medium-sized rare earth magnets (for our industrial application, bending accelerated ion beams). While they can snap together dangerously, the smaller versions are hardly dangerous in any way. Fact is any magnets can stick together in the body and cause this kind of damage. Instead of blaming the magnets, why not stop the kids from eating things like this? As kids, my brother and I never ate anything small, and we played with Legos (not Duplo) and screws and bolts all the time. I guess I don't understand the need to put things in my mouth like that... but if your kid needs to do that, then as a parent, you need to notice is and prevent it... and not just for magnets.