Texas Instruments Corporation

Steven L Ruzic

Richard A Houghton

Patrick Rome

Larry Dale Thomas, Jr

An educational toy (,) having a dodecahedron shape is formed with a different visual display on each planar face (,). A position sensing mechanism (,) is oriented inside the toy (,) to inform a microprocessor (,) which one of the planar faces (,) is in the &ldquo;up&rdquo; position. As the toy (,) is turned or moved a signal is generated to &ldquo;power on&rdquo; and a musical tune is played. When one of the planar faces (,) is stopped in the &ldquo;up&rdquo; position, the position sensing mechanism (,) informs the microprocessor (,) and an aural response corresponding to the visual display is transmitted through a speaker (,). If the toy (,) is left alone for a specified period of time, a warning tune is transmitted. If the toy (,) is still not moved thereafter, the toy (,) will automatically &ldquo;power off&rdquo;.

Position-sensitive educational product

An apparatus (38) for storing data includes a storage media (14). Also included are a number of vertical bars (40), each providing a vertical edge (50) for defining columns (44), and a number of horizontal bars (42), each providing a horizontal edge (52) for defining rows (46). The vertical bars (40) and the horizontal bars (42) are printed on storage media (14). A number of data blocks (48) are formed, each data block (48) located in a row (46), column (44) position.

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