Abstract: An apparatus for educating special needs children about money includes a easel having a display page having ferromagnetic properties arranged to display the display page to a child and specimen money and a plurality of graphics cards having magnetic properties adapted for mounting on the display page. The graphics cards include a first money card having numeric depictions stating values of money so the child can place corresponding money on the display page in association with the numeric depictions, a second money card having depictions of various ones of the money so that the child can place several items of money on the graphics card of lesser value than the depicted money to arrive at the value of the depicted money, and a third money card having numeric depictions stating various values, so that the child can place several items of money of lesser value than the numeric depiction to arrive at the value of the numeric depiction.

Abstract: A movable frog toy includes a body, a mouth, a movable tongue, and front and rear legs. A sound generator is provided for simulating audible sounds of a real frog. A drive motor and transmission provide power and movement to the parts of the frog to simulate the realistic movements of a frog. The drive motor may be an electric motor. A plurality of gear groups coupled thereto are selectively driven to impart the realistic motion to the respective parts of the frog.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an interactive role playing kit and method for exploring social, man-made or natural environments. The kit includes pictorial representations of members of an environment, such as individuals of a given race, gender or culture, a mirror, and a mask allowing an individual to assume an identity which can be viewed by reflection in the mirror. The kit may also be provided with a display stand and carrying case.

Abstract: A unique painting process and an associated kit including the materials required for practicing the method. The method includes the acts of providing a background media providing a paint source, dipping the posterior of the infant in the paint, and stamping the posterior on the background media to create stamping prints. The kit of the present invention includes a flat, flexible backing piece, at least one paint bottle attached to the backing piece, at least one reservoir attached to the backing piece, at least one painting tool attached to the backing piece, and a plastic cover having a periphery, the plastic cover positioned over the protective cover, plurality of paint bottles, plurality of reservoirs, and plurality of paint brushes, and attached around its peripheral edge to the backing piece.

Abstract: The ball return system has two horizontal poles, top and bottom, thus stretching the material vertically. The ball return system has two vertical poles, right and left, thus stretching the material horizontally forming the face of the frame. Attached to the horizontal and vertical poles are four angled poles looped through the material, two on left side and two on right side—the top angled poles on either side extend to the ground thus supporting the system—thus attached to a horizontal pole in the mid-section, in front of material of the front frame, causing an infinite amount of different directional returns. The attached weights to the mid-section horizontal pole secure the system.

Abstract: A feathered game call apparatus that simulates the wing sounds of a game bird. One preferred game call comprises an array of feathers and a handle having a gripping portion for manually manipulating the call and a feather-receiving area. The array of feathers is sequentially grouped and nested closely together so as to resemble an actual wing of a game bird. Each feather comprises a stem end and a tip end. The feathers are arranged generally in a spaced relationship in a common plane. The stems converge toward a common point of intersection at the handle, and diverge outwardly away from the handle to form a plurality of acute angles with respect to each other. The feathers are flared outwardly in a cantilevered, sequential, fan-shaped, nested fashion from the handle. An end feather may be turned inwardly to simulate the make-up of an actual wing of a game bird.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an activity book designed to make reading more enjoyable and educational for young readers. The activity book of the present invention comprises at least one illustrated page with at least one opening on the page through which a moldable material such as modeling clay is forced or extruded by the reader as through a die. The moldable material is forced through the opening(s) by the reader compressing the illustrated page against an area located on a hard flat surface such as a table or another page of the book. The moldable material passing through the opening(s) completes the illustration on the page. The shape of the opening(s) compliments the illustration and facilitates the completion of the illustration when a moldable material is extruded through the opening.

Abstract: A biofidelic human seating surrogate apparatus adapted to sit on and be supported by a vehicle seat to simulate human loading of the vehicle seat is disclosed. The apparatus includes a substantially geometrically-correct, relatively hard and relatively stiff skeletal frame structure having a substantially correct density. The structure, in turn, includes: a thoracic cage, a pair of scapulae connected at opposite sides of the thoracic cage, a set of lumbar vertebrae connected to the thoracic cage, a pelvic girdle connected to the lumbar vertebrae, a coccyx connected to the pelvic girdle, a pair of femurs, and a first pair of ball-and-socket joints for connecting their respective femurs to the pelvic girdle. The structure further includes elastomeric plastic formed over the skeletal frame structure. The elastomeric plastic has a substantially anatomically-correct, surface geometry and a substantially correct density.

Abstract: A personalized toy and a method for marketing a toy through the use of computer screen images, and of manufacturing a personalized toy. The personalized toy is manufactured as ordered by a customer. Several different configurations of components that may be assembled as part of a finished toy are provided. Computer screen images of the different configurations of at least one of the components are displayed on a computer, and a customer viewing the displayed images is allowed to record a selected configuration of component, to be assembled as part of the personalized toy. A representational image of the toy incorporating the selected configuration may be displayed.

Abstract: A toilet training system, using a board having a pre-printed path having a path beginning and a path end. The path is made up of step spaces and reward goal spaces. Initially, the parent and child select a reward type, and write the reward type in one of the reward spaces. When the child successfully uses the toilet, one of the step spaces is marked, providing visual indication to the child that they are progressing toward one of the reward spaces, and the reward symbolized thereby. When a child fails to successfully use the toilet, the last marked step space is erased to provide the child with a gentle reminder about the set back in toilet training. Once the step space immediately preceding that reward space has been reached by virtue of successful uses of the toilet, the child is rewarded with the previously chosen reward.

Abstract: A magnetically coupled mannequin joint is provided which includes a first portion and a second portion which is rotatably movable about the axis of the first portion and slidably movable along that axis. The first portion and the second portion may be secured in a position where the first portion and the second portion are substantially secured in a direction parallel to the axis by magnetic attraction. The first portion and the second portion have joint surfaces which interfit with each other such that, from said secured position, rotation of the second portion about the axis simultaneous with sliding the second portion parallel to the axis moves the joint to a position where the first portion and the second portion are substantially unsecured.

Abstract: An ornamental liquid color box includes stationary clear containers fixedly mounted on a cover of a seat. Propellers are provided on the seat to propel liquid colors flowing into the seat to liquid passages that are led to upper storing zones of the containers. Liquid colors sent to the upper storing zones then moves into narrowed middle display zones to form flattened and irregular drips before reaching lower storing zones of the containers and entering the seat again to complete a cycle of movement of the liquid colors in the liquid color box. The whole liquid color box need not be manually or mechanically turned to maintain continuous circulation of the liquid colors in the liquid color box. The propellers are driven to rotate by driving means that may be coil windings or a combination of a motor and magnet-loaded driving and driven gear wheels. No leakproof means, such as shaft seals, are required for the liquid color box.

Abstract: The pop dancers consist of a main housing with a slide switch, microphone, speaker, integrated circuit board, contact switch, a gearing system, and a motor. The lower end of the main housing contains the power supply. The upper end of the main housing has a tube anchor with a drive rod, outer tube, candy stick holder, flexible/bendable character with an aperture and candy with a candy stick.

Abstract: A flying disc comprising a displaying panel and coupling means for attaching the displaying panel to the flying disc is provided. The flying disc provides suitable space for advertising.

Abstract: A novelty device having a housing, a sensing element in the housing for sensing a stimulus and for generating an electrical signal in response to the sensed stimulus, a processor in the housing for receiving the corresponding electrical signal and for generating a responsive control signal, and an output producing device for generating in response to the control signal an output suggesting the presence of a living being trying to escape from within the housing. The output may take the form of a simulated voice asking to be “let out” of the housing, in concurrent combination with a rocking or vibrating or irregular motion of the housing suggesting that the housing is being shaken by the trapped being seeking to escape from within the box.

Abstract: A system for operator training and evaluation may detect and record information about various actions taken by an operator. For example, the system may record what the operator looks at in the course of operating the vehicle to determine whether the operator is looking at the things which the operator should appropriately be checking. In addition the system may provide other information about other aspects of the operator's performance including speed and use of controls and indicators. This information may be correlated and provided in the form of an evaluation. Alternatively, the operator may be prompted in the course of operating the vehicle to correct the operator's performance to improve the operator's skill.

Abstract: A yo-yo includes first and second side members, an axle extending between the side members, a string interconnected with the axle, and at least one weight releasably mounted to one of the side members in a first location, and moveable to a second location.

Abstract: A toy having a personalized voice message stored therein for selective playback comprising a toy and a message storage and playback device. The message storage and playback device is structured for placement within the internal cavity of the toy and includes at least one memory portion having a voice message stored therein and a playback portion. The playback portion includes an audio output circuit and a transducer, structured to retrieve the voice message from the desired memory portions and audibly output the voice message, and a control circuit, structured to limit play back of the voice message so that the voice message is only played back once each time the switch is actuated and minimize the current drawn by the playback portion to prolong the useful life of the batteries. The toy further comprises means for remote recording of a voice message, via a telephone, in one of its memory portions.

Abstract: A heat-sensitive toy consisting of variously shaped mylar polyolefin strips prepared by being forcibly drawn across a straight edge so as to assume curved curly shapes and then assembled to form a simulated object such as a serpent, snake or flower. When exposed to a heat source, these simulated objects change the curvature of their parts, curling or uncurling, and conversely return to their original shape when the heat source is removed. Each simulated object is attached to a self-supporting member, designed to display the heat-sensitive toy to advantage.

Abstract: A simulator for front-loaded barrel weapons, e.g. a mine thrower simulator, is provided with an outlet opening at the lower end of the launcher tube through which the shots, e.g. grenades, exit the launcher tube, thus allowing realistic training conditions. Both the ammunition and the simulator preferably comprise sensors and controls which collect the data from the sensors and perform a first evaluation. The results are transmitted to a computer in the custody of the trainer, which delivers the final evaluation and the calculation of the point of impact, inter alia.