Patent ID: 6890239

Claim:
A transitional companion in the form of a talking buddy for providing reassurance to a person and for self-healing, the companion comprising: a body assembly, with a corpulent torso and an outer covering of soft material and an interior body cavity; a head portion having a face with closed eyes two elongated flexible arms of a length to fit around the torso of a person and configured to be attachable to a substrate, two truncated leg portions provided with activation pads; an electronic circuit including a sound module housed in the body cavity and connected to a power source; and a plurality of switching means covered by said outer covering, and associated with the leg portions of the assembly and connected to the electronic circuit so as to provide a switch signal response to a user's touching of the respective leg portion activation pads; and wherein the sound module includes a voice synthesizing means for electrical synthesizing a plurality of soothing, reassuring, comforting, and universal words in response to the switch signal provided; the voice synthesizing means including speaker means for audibilizing said electronically synthesized words.