Abstract: The invention is a frame ball that can be polarized to preferentially land in one of three orientations. A series of hollow tubes are joined at each end by a connector that forms the tubes into an open-frame spherical shape with flattened poles. Manipulation of the material that fills the tubes allows the center of mass of the invention to be changed. By shifting the center of mass the frame ball can be biased to preferentially land on one pole more often than the other, or to not land on a pole at all. The device can be spun like a top but comes to rest only in predefined orientations.

Abstract: A toy with a ring-shaped body having multiple sections each forming a portion of the ring-shaped body and each having a tubular base portion. At least a first tab projects radially outward from the tubular base portion of a first section of the multiple sections. Surface features protrude from at least one of the first tab and the tubular base portion of at least one of the multiple sections. At least a first pressure sensor is embedded in the first tab and operates to activate a first electrical device in response to pressure applied to the first tab exceeding a pressure threshold. Activation of the first electrical device produces light, or sound, or vibrates.