SEE Toys
August 28, 2007 by Kerri Aldrich
Filed under General Play Library Goodies
I came across this site for SEE Toys (I can’t even remember how that happened, now), and I thought it was an interesting thought toward more earth-friendly toy production. Here’s a quote from their website:
The See Toys are green, environmentally friendly, electronic toys that never need batteries! They feature a power crank that makes fun, authentic sounds that encourage kids to keep powering up the fun!
For some reason, I can’t see to capture an image here for you to see, so you’ll just have to go check out the toys for yourself. But what I want to know is, have you or anyone you know tried these toys? What has been your experience if you have?
A small problem for this Zen Design Group company appears to be that they also make tons and tons of battery powered flashlights and junk toy products spewing heavy metal contamination from hundreds of thousands of batteries all over the world. I knew I had heard of their company before when I went to the Toy Show in NY and saw some of the stuff this Sun Yu guy makes for his other company, IQ Hong Kong. There’s even a press release written by Zen Design Group for the IQ Hong Kong company on their website:
http://www.iqhk.com/file/news/hl9pressrelease-20060121101549-502491.pdf
As you can see, Zen Design Group is clearly out to make money on the Green Movement Angle, and could care less about the environment.