Mattel's Toy Blood Pressure Cuff's Paint Was About 5% Lead [Chinese Poison Train] (4)
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Just how much lead was in that toy blood pressure cuff Mattel were so reluctant to recall back in February? The one they said "me federal regulations and international consumer product safety standards?" Well, a reader's scientist friend working in lab tested it on the equipment there. According to his results, the amount of lead in the paint was 4-5% lead by weight. "For reference," he writes, "U.S. EPA HUD guidelines set the action limit ...
Mattel's Toy Blood Pressure Cuff Was About 5% Lead [Chinese Poison Train] (3)
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Just how much lead was in that toy blood pressure cuff Mattel were so reluctant to recall back in February? The one they said "me federal regulations and international consumer product safety standards?" Well, a reader's scientist friend working in lab tested it on the equipment there. According to his results, the amount of lead in the paint was 4-5% lead by weight. "For reference," he writes, "U.S. EPA HUD guidelines set the action limit ...
Suing Scrabulous: The Game Everyone Gets to Lose! (3)
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Well I guess it’s finally time to check out Wordscraper. Caving Responding to a formal complaint from Scrabble copyright holder Mattel, Facebook has blocked access to Scrabulous for pretty much everyone. I was hoping to at least play Scrabulous when I travel outside the States, but no longer, because Facebook has preemptively blocked it across the globe. (Except in India, where creators Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla hail from and where a court case is still ...
iNostalgia! Mattell Football on iPhone (8)
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Remember those bleepy LED football games from thirty years ago? If so, you'll be delighted to hear that old school is coming to the iPhone. Maker Mark Helmuth writes in: I have developed a new application based on the 1970s electronic handheld football game. We have a working beta version ready for the iphone. ... We plan to launch next week The game will be just a buck, according to the homepage, and it's currently ...
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mathowie said:
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD. so many hours I played this in the early 80s. Can't wait to get a copy on my phone. CAN'T WAIT
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skabaru said:
ok, this might just push me to upgrade to 2.0...
Witness The Costumed Awesome Of Comic-Con [Comic-con 08] (3)
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We tried our best to bring you the highs, lows and news from last week's Comic-Con, but there was one essential part of the experience that we've kept from you... until now. Under the jump, some of the best costumes from the show, courtesy of Maximum PC's "Ultimate Geek Gallery." It's... a Burger King Joker, I guess? Or perhaps an Emperor Joker? But what with a conference center full of Heath Ledger-alikes, it was nice ...
Anybody Home?: Back to the Future Hoverboard Auction Starts at $30,000 (5)
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The original hoverboard used by Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future 2 is finally on the auction block, starting at $30,000. If you have that kind of money around, prepare more because this prop—made of wood and metal, including original stickers, textured paint job, and the hole left by the handlebar that Marty McFly pulls at the beginning of the chase sequence— may reach $50,000 according to the seller. 957. Michael J. Fox ...
Hasbro Sues Facebook App Scrabulous (1)
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The end of an era may be fast approaching on Facebook. The New York Times reported yesterday that Rhode Island-based game maker Hasbro had filed a lawsuit in New York against the two Indian brothers behind the popular online Scrabble clone Scrabulous that has gained a huge following on Facebook. The application currently has just over 500,000 daily active users, all of which may be out of luck if Facebook complies with the Digital Millennium ...
Back to the Future Hoverboard Auction Starts at $30,000 [Anybody Home?] (11)
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The original hoverboard used by Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future 2 is now on the auction block, starting at $30,000. If you have that kind of money around, prepare more because this prop—made of wood and metal, including original stickers, textured paint job, and the hole left by the handlebar that Marty McFly pulls at the beginning of the chase sequence— may reach $50,000 according to the seller. 957. Michael J. Fox ...
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JR A said:
OMGWTFBBQ!
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Dreams do come true!!!
Back to the Future hoverboard up for auction: $30k to play (38)
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Filed under: Transportation Tired of waiting for scientists to crack the secrets of levitation in order to purchase a bona fide hoverboard? Look, life's short -- why not take matters into your own hands? A genuine wooden Mattel hoverboard used by Michael J. Fox (or Marty McFly, as we prefer to call him) in Back to the Future II and III is up for auction, though the barrier to entry is rather substantial. Of course, ...
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Jason Matthews said:
now, finally, your grade school dreams can come true and be instantly crushed when you realize it's just a piece of wood.
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Doug Stewart said:
The playground rumor back in my school days was that these existed in Japan, but overly-litigious parents groups in the US were preventing their importation. Never have I been so furious at adults before.
How to profit from the Dark Knight Industrial Complex (1)
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Filed under: Time Warner (TWX), Nokia Corp. (NOK), Comcast Cl'A' (CMCSA), Mattel, Inc (MAT)Dark Knight, the Batman movie starring Heath Ledger, did boffo box office: $158.3 million, according to Defamer. But this blockbuster will not just benefit Warner Brothers and DC Comics, which share parent Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) with BloggingStocks. There are at least six companies that will benefit from Dark Knight's success. According to Seeking Alpha, these companies include: Time Warner -- ...
Weekly Recap 071808: Define ‘Frienderati’ (9)
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Literati means intelligentsia… Intelligentsia means…a social class of people engaged in complex mental and creative labor directed to the development and dissemination of culture, encompassing intellectuals and social groups close to them Guy Kawasaki’s at it again…he rolled out his latest list of the “Top” in a medium, this time FriendFeed…his Frienderati lists ~100 people on FriendFeed and their 5 most recent entries…I actually follow a number of the people on his list… But something’s ...
An open letter to DC and Mattel on how to compete... (1)
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Like the title says, this is an open letter to DC and Mattel on how to compete... with the Super Hero Squad.After the first couple waves of Super Hero Squad came out and demonstrated that the line wasn’t necessarily the flash in the pan that many toy lines end up being (a set of core characters get represented, but the line implodes, so collectors end up with a handful of Attactix or Super Hero Showdown ...
In the Courtroom: Barbie v. Bratz (1)
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The trial of the century -- okay, maybe the No. 2 Trial of the Century, just after R. Kelly -- is underway. It's Barbie v. Bratz in a civil suit destined to rock this nation to the very core of its being. As the court proceedings get underway, here is a brief primer on what's at stake in this battle of the less-than-progressive-toys for little girls.The Barbie Side Who is involved in the suit: Mattel ...
First Video of Elmo Live Singing and Dancing Shows He Got Skillz [Elmo] (1)
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Holy crap, I want this Elmo, and I don't even like Sesame Street. It makes Pleo look like a dumb hunk of plastic. The ways it moves and interacts is incredible—it tells stories, sings songs, dances and is simply the most expressive toy we've ever seen. It even yells out "Jazz Hands!" when he finish performing his newest rap hit, "Elmo's Gotta Get On Up." More information and videos after the jump. His moves are ...
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Today Mattel announced the launch of Parents' Place for BarbieGirls.com. Announced in Mattel's keynote at Virtual Worlds 2008, Parents' Place gives parents more control over their children's use of the virtual world. At the time, Mattel launched parental accounts to...Shared by iAlja (23)Contribute comment
