Abstract: A toy includes a housing with pressure sensitive sensors on each face of the housing. The toy instructs players as to which parts of their body they should use in pressing one or more of the sensors on the toy. A number of games can be played with the toy. Players can pass the toy from one player to another using the body parts the toy calls out and try to set records for the number of passes possible without mistake, or can try to set records for the number of passes that can be made within a two minute time period. A third game involves three or four players trying to cover five or six of the sensors in accordance with the toy's instructions. The players maneuver their bodies to maintain pressure on the sensors being held while pressing holding a new sensor called out by the toy. The voice used in the toy also tries to challenge the players to improve on their previous scores.

Abstract: An electronic toy includes a user reprogrammable data storage device, such as recordable tape media, or digital memory, whereby a user can selectively download program information into the data storage device to change the independent operating characteristics of the toy. The program information is preferably generated by a personal computer wherein program information can be accessed from various media, including magnetic disc, CD-ROM, and/or a remote computer system via modem. In one preferred embodiment, the toy consists of an animatronic teddy bear having a reprogrammable digital memory. The program information, which may include audio data for speech and control data for movement of animatronic body parts, is transferred into the toy's reprogrammable memory by removable cables connected between the computer and a control processor in the toy. Program information can also be provided by, and/or downloaded from a remote computer system.

Abstract: An interactive electronic graphics tablet is provided which utilizes two windows, one large window for the insertion of a standard sheet of paper or other material allowing the user to draw images on the paper and another smaller second window. A cartridge having various icons, such as animal images, is clicked into place in the smaller window. The device is configured such that the paper overlays a touch sensitive pad. The operation of the present invention allows the user to assign any cell of the drawn page corresponding to XY coordinates to particular sounds correlated to the icons in the smaller second window by touching respective locations and icons.

Abstract: An interactive electronic graphics tablet is provided which utilizes two windows, one large window for the insertion of a standard sheet of paper or other material allowing the user to draw images on the paper and another smaller second window. A cartridge having various icons, such as animal images, is clicked into place in the smaller window. The device is configured such that the paper overlays a touch sensitive pad. The operation of the present invention allows the user to assign any cell of the drawn page corresponding to XY coordinates to particular sounds correlated to the icons in the smaller second window by touching respective locations and icons.

Abstract: A toy assembly includes a base toy unit, a plurality of accessories which are removably receivable in predetermined positions on the base toy unit, a plurality of switch assemblies for detecting the absence or presence of the accessories relative to the respective predetermined positions thereof and a control unit which is responsive to the switch assemblies for issuing prerecorded sound effect, including voice messages. The sound effect are preferably related to the removal or repositioning of the accessories relative to the respective predetermined positions thereof on the base toy unit for leading, responding to and reinforcing the activity of a child in a play format. The base toy unit is preferably embodied as a toy vehicle, the accessories are preferably formed as accessories which are related to the vehicle and the sound effect are preferably related to the vehicle and the accessories.

Abstract: A periodontal probe includes sequentially disposed, normally connected sensor, shaft and tip portions, and a longitudinally extending fiber element in the tip and shaft portions. The fiber element is retractable into the tip portion to measure the depths of periodontal pockets in the mouth of a patient, and the sensor portion is operative for generating electrical signals which cumulatively provide indications of the relative positions of the tip portion and the fiber element. The shaft portion, the tip portion and the fiber element are preferably disposable and detachably connected to the sensor portion so that they can be discarded after a single periodontal examination. The shaft portion and the tip portion preferably have a combined length of at least approximately 41/2 inches so that only the disposable portions of the probe normally come into contact with the hands of a dentist or the mouth of a patient during a periodontal examination.