Fuel Cell Maker to Power Toys

Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies has inked an agreement with a major toymaker to develop a line of hydrogen-powered toys. Horizon makes industrial-strength fuel cells but the Singapore-based company is probably best known for its solar-and-hydrogen-powered toy car called the H-Racer. (The company also has developed a very cool hydrogen-powered jet.) Horizon and Hong Kong's Wah Shing Toys, which describes itself as one of the world's largest toy companies, will develop energy storage systems designed to replace some 500 million alkaline batteries used annually in toys. "Building on its fuel cell technology, Horizon is developing a new generation of non-toxic energy storage devices that would feed small fuel cell power systems designed into next-generation toys and that could be re-used hundreds of times," the company said in a statement. Horizon already makes a hydrogen fuel cell conversion kit designed to replace standard batteries in remote-controlled toy cars.