Abstract: An educational baby toy in which a number of lamps of different colors are mounted on the upper surface of the housing in transverse rows and columns. Manually actuable buttons are likewise mounted on the upper surface with one button mounted adjacent each lamp for causing, when actuated, illumination of that lamp, one button mounted adjacent each row, column and diagonal thereof for causing, when actuated, sequential illumination of each lamp of that row, column or diagonal and three buttons for causing, when actuated, illumination of each of said lamps in two different given sequences and in a random sequence.

Abstract: A portable telephone answering device which fits over the cradle of a telephone handset and receives the handset with a speaker adjacent the handset microphone and a microphone adjacent the handset speaker. An outgoing message can be recorded on one track of a multi-channel loop of tape. When ringing is detected, the telephone plungers are released and the outgoing message played. Next the unit records an incoming message on another track. A metallic splice on the loop serves as a reference. The number of channels on which an incoming message has been recorded are counted and the count incremented only if audio signals are detected indicating a message was left.