Learning Resources, Inc.

Barbara Ellen Plain

Tirza Ernst

Michael I Blaustein

Elizabeth M Ganrude

Lonnie Clyde Pogue

Gayle E Gordon

Richard Woldenberg

Yau Chung Siu

Wai Hing Kim

Victor Kwok-ho Ng

Samuel Nguy

Brian Macowski

Po Man Yuen

Jane Woldenberg

A programmable robot includes a body, a pair of drive wheels rotatably coupled to the body, a pair of electric motors in the body for driving the drive wheels, a receiver unit configured to receive at least one wireless command from a programming device, a sensor configured to sense a surrounding environment of the programmable robot, and a controller operably connected to the receiver unit and the sensor, the controller configured to control operation of the electric motors in response to the at least one wireless command received from the receiver unit and a data signal received from the sensor.

Toy robot

Educational devices, educational systems, and methods of teaching and learning reading are provided. The devices, systems, and methods can include an indicium reader, such as an optical character recognition device, for reading indicium from objects. Such objects can be three-dimensional blocks and the indicium can be a letter, word, sentence, number, or some other type of readable character(s). The devices, systems, and methods can include a display for displaying the read indicium and an audio producing device for producing audio corresponding to the read indicium. The educational devices can be a self-contained, portable unit with the indicium reader, the display, and the audio producing device supported by a housing of the educational devices.

Educational devices, systems and methods using optical character recognition

A toy scanner is disclosed capable of scanning printed price indicators and audibly and visually displaying the scanned price. The price indicators are printed in carbon ink and the toy scanner includes a conductive rubber strip located on the reading face of the scanner for reading the carbon ink printed price indicators. The scanned price is visually displayed on an LCD display. The scanned price is audibly displayed by a voice synthesizer and loud speaker combination which &ldquo;talks&rdquo; the scanned price. A mute switch is included for turning off the talk feature. The scanner also includes a random number generator for generating a random price, which is also audibly and visually displayed, upon activation of a random price activation switch.

Talking toy scanner

An educational toy telephone is provided and includes a telephone base and a removable handset. A numerical keypad is provided by which an input telephone number may be entered into said telephone. The telephone further includes a microprocessor and memory associated therewith for controlling the various functions of the toy telephone and storing a user-defined programmed telephone number. A message controller is provided, responsive to an output signal from the microprocessor. The message controller stores at least one pre-recorded message consisting of at least one of individual tones, patterns of tones, and a voice message. The microprocessor compares telephone numbers entered into the keypad against the pre-defined telephone numbers. The message controller, responsive to the microprocessor, audibly reproduces the at least one pre-recorded message when the comparison performed by the microprocessor determines that the input telephone number matches the pre-defined telephone number.

Teaching toy telephone

Digital/analog teaching clock

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Winnetka, IL, United States of America

Barbara Ellen Plain