Buckyballs turned out to be a whole ‘nuther can of worms:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/federal-regulators-suing-buckyballs-founder-in-rare-product-recall-case/2014/01/05/5b8c19ec-5087-11e3-a7f0-b790929232e1_story.html
Wrong Buckyballs. The article you referred to were about toys/hobby materials with extremely strong magnets in them. The real buckyballs, full name buckminsterfullerene, is 60 carbon atoms in a geodesic sphere, called that because of Fuller’s fascination with geodesic domes for houses.