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Tritium-lit pacifiers sure sound like a legitimate 1950s atomic age product.


There's a youtube channel from someone who finds and reports frivolous radioactive products to the NRC, getting them banned. It happens even today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BA5bw1EV5I


Not sure what the modern one are, but they will still glow in the morning hours. They are very very handy!


Same thing with kids’ toothbrush handles. Getting up in the night and seeing them glowing 5-6 hours since lights were last on is pretty impressive.




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