Abstract: A welding hood assembly which includes a voice-activated lens shade adjusting device. The welding hood is equipped with an electronically-controlled lens whose shade darkness can be immediately and incrementally adjusted via voice commands spoken into a microphone mounted inside the hood and integrated with a voice-command system. When the welder produces a voice command for a specific degree of shading, the lens will immediately change to the desired level of shade.

Abstract: A golf putting target which includes a housing with sloped top sides and which is smaller than a regulation golf cup hole. The housing contains pressure bars, a battery, a normally open circuit and a sound synthesizer. When a putted golf ball rolls over the target a pressure bar is depressed completing a normally open circuit which causes the sound synthesizer to emit an audible sound providing feedback to a golfer.