Abstract: A method of providing a purchaser of a product with a replica portraying the product includes the steps of receiving product information relating to a visible feature of the product, and causing a replica including the visible feature of the product to be transferred to the purchaser. The method may also include obtaining information related to the owner of the purchased product and creating a certificate of ownership associating the product, the replica, and the owner of the product. Also, a registrar may be provided to maintain records associating the product, the replica, and the owner. The registrar may obtain information from a merchant of the product, and transfer the information to a replica manufacturer to obtain a replica.

Abstract: This invention is a pointing device, i.e. a computer mouse, for producing computer program commands issued by young children or others that have difficulty operating a conventional mouse device. A rotatable ball or other pointing mechanism is provided in the housing. A horizontally-elongated button is located within the front surface of the housing. This button, having a horizontal arc of between approximately 150 to 180 degrees, may be readily operated by any or all of the fingers of one hand of the user and may be pulled backward by cupping the hand in a grasping action. This eliminates the physically-difficult downward, single-finger, pressing action required of conventional pointing devices. Preferably, the mouse has a mass of approximately 150-250 grams, which, for the preferred small-volume mouse, amounts to a high-density mouse that tends to reduce or eliminate rapid or erratic movements that may be inadvertently initiated by the young or less-then-dexterous user.

Abstract: This invention is a pointing device, i.e. a computer mouse, for producing computer program commands issued by young children or others that have difficulty operating a conventional mouse device. A rotatable ball or other pointing mechanism is provided in the housing. A horizontally-elongated button is located within the front surface of the housing. This button, having a horizontal arc of between approximately 150 to 180 degrees, may be readily operated by any or all of the fingers of one hand of the user and may be pulled backward by cupping the hand in a grasping action. This eliminates the physically-difficult downward, single-finger, pressing action required of conventional pointing devices. Preferably, the mouse has a mass of approximately 150-250 grams, which, for the preferred small-volume mouse, amounts to a high-density mouse that tends to reduce or eliminate rapid or erratic movements that may be inadvertently initiated by the young or less-then-dexterous user.

Abstract: A method of providing a purchaser of a product with a replica portraying the product includes the steps of receiving product information relating to a visible feature of the product, and causing a replica including the visible feature of the product to be transferred to the purchaser. The method may also include obtaining information related to the owner of the purchased product and creating a certificate of ownership associating the product, the replica, and the owner of the product. Also, a registrar may be provided to maintain records associating the product, the replica, and the owner. The registrar may obtain information from a merchant of the product, and transfer the information to a replica manufacturer to obtain a replica.