[Blue Jays]

I just knew it was a bad week to stop my hobby of swallowing small electrical batteries!

[The Sons of Liberty]

OK. I’ll bite. How do you retrieve the robot?

[JoeProBono]

[from occupied ga]

This is no small thing.

At 3500 occurrences annually most of which are passed without incident in a country of 320,000,000. I'd say it is a small thing.

[Tax-chick]

Although most of these batteries are safely digested excreted, sometimes they can leak and cause tissue burns, bleeding, and death.

I wonder how often. I'm going to search now.

[Tax-chick]

Children under the age of 6 swallowed batteries in a reported 11,940 incidents between 2005 and 2014, according to the National Capitol Poison Center in Washington, D.C. Of those, 15 children died and 101 suffered major medical problems.

15 deaths over about 10 years. Perhaps this device could prevent some. However, if adults don't know the child has swallowed the battery until he or she is very ill, it doesn't seem like the robot would help much.