Eri86 that sounds like a very practical solution. Your idea, Hummingbird, sounds very doable although I'm not sure how you're going to get it so usable that people will abandon ideas like eri86's.

My input seems even more grandiose. Make the interface smart so that it recognizes each toy, it's limits and it's recharging times. It would produce reminders on its own based on what toy you added to the list. With the amount of toys on the market and that are about to be on the market, the task seems a bit impossible to keep up with to me. In this case, it seems a low tech answer would be best. less

Okay so now I have this arsenal of toys, some that take batteries but at least half that are rechargeable. Already I've found myself ready to play with a dead toy or have one fizzle out just as I'm getting warmed up. As a result I tend to bring more toys to keep readily at hand during play time than I actually need. So here's my thought, being in the business world and in computers I thought I'd develop ab electronic database on my iPad with charge expectancy of the toy and when it was last charged. I thought I would even put in a timely reminder of when to charge them, that would be an easy do. I developed a database before surely is would be a logical way to remedy this situation.

Now my question, always open to new ideas, suggestions and I improvements I wanted to ask what you do? How do you manage the energy consumption situation? less