Patent ID: 7137861

Claim:
A motion based multimedia I/O system for bidirectional communication of information between one or more computer applications and a user, further comprising: an I/O device, further comprising: at least one movable figure, further comprising; a preselected ornamental appearance, a plurality of movable components, and a first universal adapter operatively connected to the movable components; a base unit, further comprising; a second universal adapter having a plurality of connections for removably attaching to the first movable adapter; the second universal adapter in the base unit having means to control the first universal adapter such that movement of one or more preselected movable components in the movable figure are controlled by the base unit via the second universal adapter; and the first and second universal adapters are removably attached to one another such that the movable figure can be detached from the base unit, and replaced with another movable figure; the base unit having means to initiate and control predetermined motions of the movable figure under control of the second universal adapter in the base unit in response to instructions from a computer, the instructions from the computer issued from one or more independent programs through a common interface, and the movements of the movable components having specific meaning for a user; whereby the base unit controls the detachable movable figure such that motion based communications is made between one or more independent software programs in a computer and an individual.