WILLIAM FINLEY was almost 4 years old when his grandmother gave him a Magnetix building set for Christmas in 2004. Its colorful, tiny plastic rods, with powerful micro-magnets at each end that gripped ...

(CNN) — Several months ago, Meaghin and Jonathan Jordan were strolling through a shop near their home in Kiln, Mississippi, when they spotted a box of high-powered magnets that could be arranged and ...

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Just when parents are knee deep in holiday shopping, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued an urgent recall for a popular toy. About 9,400 sets of Crayola-branded “pip‑Cubes” ...

If Ed Scruggs, of Austin, Texas, hadn’t seen it for himself, he might never have believed it. But there it was on his 11-year-old daughter’s X-ray: a string of tiny, super-strong spherical magnets in ...

Truly great toys do more than just occupy your little one’s attention—they spark creativity, entertain, and teach. That’s exactly what makes so many magnetic toys such a worthwhile investment: They ...