Patent ID: 6729881
Filing Date: 2004-05-04
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
An educational toy to stimulate the development of a child's mind comprising:an object having six sides, four or more sides of the object having a picture thereon, the object adapted for lateral movement and rotational manipulation by the child on a substantially horizontal surface to allow the child to laterally move the object to arbitrary child-defined locations on the substantially horizontal surface and turn the object to select different sides of the object to face upwardly; one or more sensors capable of sensing the object at the arbitrary child-defined locations on the substantially horizontal surface to facilitate determination of which of the six sides faces upwardly; a speaker to output audio outputs; and a plurality of first audio outputs designed to stimulate the development of the child's mind, wherein in response to the child turning the object to select one of sides of the object to face upwardly, the speaker outputs one of the first audio outputs depending on the side of the object sensed to face upwardly by the one or more sensors.