Tag: Toys - Page 6
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Dispatches from Designboost: Visualizing the Spokes
The boost show (or exhibition) of
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Book Review: Softies by Therese Laskey
In the face of what feels like an endless parade of toy recalls and safety concerns, Therese Laskey reminds us what a cinch it is to whip up our own creations. In Softies: Simple Instructions for 25 Plush Pals (2007, Chronicle Books), the
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Downloading Designs: Paper Critters
Toys are such a great introduction to the idea of downloadable designs; we knew one could find a lot of them online, but Josh Spear points out Paper Critters, an entire colony inhabited by 4946 contributions from people all over the world. Not only
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Kids Living Near Dump in Nairobi Have Serious Lead Issues
A recent study released by the UN shows that at least half of the 328 children tested while living near Dandora, one of Africa's largest dumps, currently have levels of lead in their bodies exceeding international limits. And that's not to mention
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Downloadable Designs: Cat Toys from Marmalade Pet
We do go on about downloadable designs, (and even have a website devoted to them at In An Absolut World Everything is Downloadable) but now present the simplest and easiest downloadable design anywhere. It's from Marmalade Pet, who brought us the
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Birthdays Without Pressure
You knew it was bound to happen, and a group of parents and professionals in St. Paul, Minnesota have come up with a campaign called Birthdays Without Pressure. After noting the endless circuit of parties and hoopla for young children in which they had
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Toxics Link Finds High Levels Of Lead In Indian Paints
The Delhi-based non-profit environmental group Toxics Link released a study last week that showed dangerously high levels of lead in household paint samples from Delhi and Mumbai, following another study they conducted in collaboration with a
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Clean Up the Beach & Have Fun Doing It with the Bottle-Legged Octopus
One of the ideas behind creating meaningful, impactful educational experiences is, "You gotta make it fun." Here's a brilliant concept designed to do just that when it comes to learning to clean up the beach. This cute little octopus (although,
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Sock Dog Kit: Rescuing Orphan Socks Everywhere
Here's a concept that is ingenious by virtue of its stark simplicity: Designers Martino Gamper and Sato Hisao will be showing their Sock Dog kit, a remarkably unfussy method of converting orphan socks into toys, from Sept 21 at Super Design Market,
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Exporting Toxic Toys: Good Enough for Somebody Else
The Consumer Product Safety Commission just pulled another lot of childrens' art sets from Toys R Us: "Consumers should immediately take the products away from children," warned a news release from the federal government's watchdog for thousands of
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Build Your Own Solar Powered Toys: You Know, For the Kids
As we've seen with gadgets like the H-Racer, toys are a great way to get kids of any age excited about a green future. They get to play with toys, and parents get to sneak in a little education about renewable energy, sustainable technology, whatever.
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Kinderherd & Kinderspüle: Kids' Toys and Furniture by Hase Weiss
Particularly timely in the wake of the difficulties in the Chinese toy manufacturing industry (and related fall-out), Berlin-based Hase Weiss specializes in wooden toys and children’s furniture that'll give molded plastic a run for its money. Made up
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Toy Boxes Overflow as Playgrounds and Wallets Empty
If you live in the U.S. and have a life experience similar to mine, you've probably spent at least a bit of time in a house or two where the children's toys have literally taken over the entire place.
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Flight To Quality: European Toy Makers Fill the Void
It's happening in the financial markets right now; in food, and now in toys; in times of crisis there is a flight to quality. Suddenly the sales of the expensive but high quality toys from Brio, Haba and Playmobile are exploding. "It's scary. First
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SEE Toys Taps Into Local, Renewable Energy Source: Kids Everywhere
Ever wondered what to do with the endless amount of energy your child seems to possess at all the wrong times? Well, how about considering a new line of toys that uses an LED and has batteries that are constantly recharged by your own child's
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Toys, China, Prices, And Burnett On CNBC
When news came yesterday that Cheung Shu-hung, a co-owner of the Lee Der Industrial Corporation responsible for the lead contamination of approximately 1.5 million toys that recently had to be recalled by Mattel committed suicide at one of his
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Company Sits on Information about Lead for Five Years
Thomas the Tank Engine probably wasn't a very good role model anyways, burning coal and spewing CO2 and mercury, and his licensees certainly were not too concerned about it either. Kenny noted recently that many Chinese-made Thomas & Friends products
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Bioplastic Toys for Bringing Up Baby Right and Just Maybe Less Obese
Yet again classic designs go green. This time in the form of bioplastic toys for the kiddies, brought to you by Green Toys. And just in time for fellow TreeHugger Kenny who's son Robert was born the other day. Due to be a father myself later this
