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A kids’s mini speaker is being recalled for potential burn and hearth hazards.
The Shopper Product Security Fee announced April 11 that the Yoto Mini speaker for kids is being voluntarily recalled due to a lithium-ion battery that may overheat and catch hearth, posing burn and hearth dangers.
Mother and father are suggested to take away the Yoto Mini from their kids’s attain instantly, however recalled items don’t must be discarded.
Those that personal the speaker ought to contact Yoto to obtain a free Yoto Mini Good Cable, which might cost the speaker battery to a secure stage, Yoto mentioned in a press release.
The speaker was bought with a charging cable, however no adaptor or charger. Shoppers ought to reduce the charging cable by means of the center and add a photograph to the Yoto web site with their electronic mail and Yoto Mini serial quantity, positioned on the speaker’s base. As soon as uploaded, customers can be eligible for the free good cable.
“Anybody who has a Yoto Mini can now register to obtain one Yoto Mini Good Cable per system by means of our devoted web site. The Yoto Mini Good Cable will preserve the battery cost inside secure limits and stop it probably overheating by stopping charging when it reaches a sure level,” the corporate mentioned in a press release.
Yoto additionally mentioned it carried out an automated software program replace throughout all Yoto Mini audio system to “enhance battery administration,” in keeping with an organization assertion.
“We apologize for the inconvenience and concern this problem might trigger our clients and wish to reassure them the protection of our merchandise is our absolute precedence,” the corporate mentioned in a press release.
The Yoto Mini is a Bluetooth speaker meant for kids ages 3 to 12 and can be utilized to play audiobooks, music, radio and podcasts.
The speaker is used with bodily Yoto playing cards that slide into the speaker system and correspond to totally different audio, together with audiobooks and songs.
No accidents have been reported. Yoto acquired seven experiences — six from US customers and one from a UK shopper — concerning the speaker overheating or melting, in keeping with the CPSC.
About 251,165 audio system are topic to the recall in the US and about 18,932 are topic to the recall in Canada.
The speaker is bought on-line at us.yotoplay.com, maisonette.com and main retailers like Amazon.com and Goal.com. The speaker was bought in toy and present shops nationwide from November 2021 to April 2024.
The recalled items have the SKU PRPLXX00860 on the bottom of the product.