Interactive educational toy
CA 2333918 A1 · Owner: Wood, Michael C. · Inventors: Wood, Michael C.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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The present invention comprises a teaching toy that invites a child's interaction using an attractive play figure for example a stuffed animal (2), to present more than one instructional modality (fig. 3) in mixed formats. If the inventive is presented in the form of a stuffed animal (2) the exterior , of the animal would have a plurality of indicia (4) that the child could press. The indicia (4) is connected to switching circuitry (fig. 2) and those switches activate a logic circuit (fig. 3) containing preprogrammed instruction modalities (fig. 3) and play methods. Each inventive toy presents at least two distinct instruction modalities (fig. 3) for example, i) stating , the name of …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed May 27, 1999. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended May 27, 2019.
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