Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7798885 | Instant message toy phone A wireless toy phone system that may be used with toy figures, such as dolls. The system may include doll sized phones and child sized phones. The child sized phone may have a display screen and input buttons. A child can compose a message with a phone keypad on the... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7252510 | Entertainment device and method of using the same An entertainment device that includes an output generator that produces audible outputs is disclosed. The output generator produces outputs in response to user inputs. In one embodiment, the entertainment device includes several actuators that can be activated by a ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7237821 | Stroller with playing tool A stroller includes a playing tool main body coupled on a guard bar, a playing tool coupled on a plurality of rotational shaft installed in the main body, a cover formed to be transparent and protecting the playing tool, a driving motor installed in the main body an... | 07/03/2007 |
| 6940432 | Subliminal recording device An apparatus for recording and replaying a message comprising a plurality of control buttons for controlling the apparatus; a processor connected to the record control button for communicating instructions to a memory; a memory connected to the processor for storing... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6816754 | Method and system for controlling drive of a robot A method and system for controlling drive of a robot having two or more drive axes and driven in accordance with an action program transmitted from a system controller to a robot controller by a wireless transmission way, checks whether a detected current position o... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6728598 | Arithmetic processing device, inter-object communication method, and robot An arithmetic processing device for inter-object data communication has an object manager for connecting objects so as to enable exchange of data between the objects, and a connection data supplying unit for supplying the object manager with connection data necessar... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6718231 | Authoring system and authoring method, and storage medium An action editing window (200) is formed as a time table of a two-dimensional time line style, made up by a horizontal time axis and a vertical channel. Within the time line table, respective constituent elements of an action of a robot, such as a time ruler ... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6692328 | Electronic toy using prerecorded messages A toy, such as a toy pager or a toy telephone, generates an attention signal and plays a recorded message to the user. The attention signal is generated in a seemingly random fashion to simulate the operation of a real pager or telephone.... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6684127 | Method of controlling behaviors of pet robots A robotic system, robot apparatus, and a control method are presented wherein behaviors suitable for a robot are embodied based on information distributed by a number of information distributing devices. Also, the robotic system, robot apparatus, and a co... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6659835 | Interactive toy phone An interactive toy phone includes a handset having a keypad, microphone, and speaker. A CPU connected to a memory module is positioned in the handset, the memory module having a plurality of message storage locations corresponding to the keys of the keypa... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6629133 | Interactive doll An interactive doll is disclosed having one or more sensors contained therein. The one or more sensors are operable to trigger output of a signal from the doll in response to the one or more sensors being activated by physical stimuli of a user. A process... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6056550 | Educational interactive device An educational interaction device is provided with a housing having a handle and a phone handset. A numeric keypad representative of a telephone keypad is situated on the front face of the housing below the liquid crystal display. A plurality of lamps are... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6029042 | Educational audio playback device including hidden graphical images located below pivoting button elements A novel educational audio playback device is disclosed which, in the preferred embodiment, is in the shape of a simulated telephone. On the body of the apparatus are a plurality of buttons, each of the buttons having a hinged cover mounted thereon. These ... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5681200 | Toy telephone with integral lollipop holder A toy telephone which has an integral lollipop holder. The toy telephone has a voice recorder which can be used by a child to record and play back messages for amusement. A lollipop is removably attached to a retractable slide which extends the lollipop f... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5679049 | Toy telephone recording and playback A toy telephone includes a telephone base enclosure a microphone, a speaker, a memory chip for recording sounds for later retrieval, a microprocessor electrically connected to the memory chip, and at least one button electrically connected to the micropro... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5609508 | Toy telephone with visual display for recorded messages In order to improve the effects which can be achieved with pre-recorded data, a toy telephone is provided with a suitable display such as a LCD. A suitable memory (e.g. IC memory) is included in the telephone enabling both audio and image data to be recor... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5513993 | Educational 911 training device An educational training device in disclosed which includes a replica of a telephone including a telephone headset having an operational speaker and a telephone keypad having a plurality of numeric key buttons. A machine is associated with a telephone oper... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5474484 | Doll used to teach children to use the emergency 911 telephone numbers To educate children how to use the emergency 911 telephone number, a talking doll displays the twelve keys of a conventional telephone instrument. Within the chest of the doll or mounted externally is a tape player having a pre-recorded tape of the words ... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5382188 | Audio playback device An audio playback device is formed in the configuration of a conventional telephone. The device includes an image plate having a plurality of images thereon, and an integrated circuit assembly having a memory which is pre-programmed with a plurality of so... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5184971 | Toy telephone recorder with picture actuated recording and playback This invention is a toy audio recorder in the exterior shape of a telephone. The recorder is equipped with large pushbutton assemblies capable of housing illustrations. Depressing one of the pushbutton assemblies will playback the message stored in the st... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5183431 | Toy facsimile machine A toy facsimile machine has a hollow case for housing a rotatably mounted roll of paper, transfer roll members that frictionally engage the paper to unroll it, a plate positioned between the roll and the transfer roll members to support the unrolled paper... | 02/02/1993 |
| 4973285 | Simulated car phone A simulated car phone includes a handset unit configured to resemble an operational car phone. The handset unit includes a simulated keypad and a simulated signal cord. A radio frequency receiver is provided in the handset for receiving signals from a sma... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4713035 | Toy telephone A toy telephone having a base, a dial connected to the base and noise generating means within the base actuatable by the dial, characterized in that the dial is connected to the base for both rotary and axial motion relative to the base and the noise gene... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4306374 | Electrical safety plug and socket combination An electrical safety plug having two prongs receivable in a complementary socket having two terminal holes, the plug and socket combination being polarized so that the relationship between the prongs and terminals is non-reversible. The plug body has inte... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4266365 | Ringing toy telephone A toy telephone has a handpiece and a cradle for the handpiece. The cradle is spring urged upwardly at a controlled rate when the handpiece is lifted. A motor driven phonograph reproduces recorded sound only when the cradle is in its upper position. When ... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4158931 | Animated action toy An animated action toy for young children and the like includes a doll having a hollow body with a head having a face with a mouth and movable lips. An air bladder is mounted in the doll's body and is interconnected to move the lips in response to changes... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4104821 | Toy telephone with bell and recorded messages A battery powered toy telephone capable of playing in random order any one of several recorded messages, and also capable of intermittent ringing of a bell. Operation of the toy proceeds by turning on a switch, by pressing one or more buttons located belo... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4103452 | Child's telephone apparatus Telephone apparatus for children which is selectively connectible to home stereophonic sound systems, by way of example. The subject telephone is a talking toy telephone which utilizes a stereophonic sound system requiring a play-back on two separate spea... | 08/01/1978 |
