Manipulable interactive devices
AssigneeThe National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
InventorMartin Owen
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Abstract
A manually manipulable device adapted to present an individual characterisation to a user comprising a processor, a power source, a communications unit, a response generator, and a proximity sensor adapted to sense the close proximity of a similar device, such that a user can manipulate the device and generate a sensory response in said response generator or a response generator of another, at least similar, device, in accordance with the proximity of said other device.
Claims32
A manually manipulable device adapted to present an individual characterisation to a user comprising a processor, a power source, a communications unit, a response generator, and a proximity sensor adapted to sense the close proximity of a similar device, such that a user can manipulate the device and generate a sensory response in said response generator or a response generator of another, at least similar, device, in accordance with the proximity of said other device.
A set of at least two manually manipulable devices, each adapted to present an individual characterisation to a user and to be locatable relative to other such devices in multiple different arrangements, wherein each device comprises a processor, a power source, a response generator, and a communications unit, such that the devices generate a sensory response through said response generators in accordance with the arrangement of the devices selected by a user.
A learning aid comprising:
- a radio transceiver;
- a display screen;
- a magnetic sensor;
- a processor coupled to the transceiver, the screen and the sensor;
- and
- a battery coupled to transceiver, the screen, the sensor and the processor to provide power;
- wherein:
- the processor is adapted to determine from a signal from the sensor the proximity of another, at least similar, learning aid;
- and
- the processor is adapted to respond to manipulation of the aid by a user by at least one of driving the screen to present an image to the user and driving a nearby, at least similar, learning aid to give a response to the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.