The present invention is a lottery ticket scratching tool for scraping off the lottery tickets. The lottery ticket scratching tool includes a main body having an electric motor to generate vacuum therein. The lottery ticket scratching tool also includes a scraping blade provided at one end of the main body. As the scraping blade is used to scrape the lottery ticket, the resulting scraped off debris material is sucked into the main body to be discarded later. The lottery ticket scratching tool includes a fine mesh to prevent debris material from impinging on the electric motor, and also a one-way valve to keep the collected debris material within the main body. The lottery ticket scratching tool is battery operated to be portable and for easier handling thereof.

In an aspect, an augmented reality game system is provided including a mobile smart device such as a smart phone and a remotely controlled drone. The mobile smart phone device is programmed to display an augmented environment, being the real environment viewed by the camera and a virtual environment superimposed over images of the real environment. The drone is controlled via commands transmitted wirelessly by the mobile smart device. The mobile smart device is programmed to execute a video game, which includes activities requiring a player to control the drone in relation to the augmented environment displayed on the mobile smart device video screen. The drone is powered by a rechargeable battery, and the video game includes activities that keep the player occupied with the game while the drone's rechargeable battery recharges.

A portable, handheld game console includes a main body incorporating a touch-sensitive display screen and a variety of input devices. The input devices can include shoulder buttons located on a peripheral side surface of the main body, as well as input devices located on the main body adjacent the touch-sensitive display screen.

A sensing device, a ball shaft for smart magic cube, and a smart magic cube are provided. By optimizing the sensing device of the smart magic cube, only two circuit boards are needed to sense rotation states in six directions, thereby changing a current technology that requires setting PCB boards and sensors in each direction of the smart magic cube. The smart magic cube has a simple structure and is easy to assemble, which may reduce production costs.

A method for waking up smart magic cube and a smart magic cube are provided. An accelerometer is arranged on the smart magic cube. When the smart magic cube is in a dormant state, an acceleration of the smart magic cube in any direction of the three axes is detected by the accelerometer. When detecting that an acceleration value of the is acceleration greater than a preset awakening threshold, the smart magic cube is wakened up and enters a normal working mode. The method for waking up smart magic cube and the smart magic cube provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure can greatly save an energy consumption of the smart magic cube when it is in the dormant state, thus improving a battery life of the smart magic cube, and giving users a better and more intelligent experience.

A clicking mechanism toy having a body and head in the form of an animal or insect. The body accommodates a multitude of clicking mechanisms. Optionally a depressible push button of the clicking mechanism is colored, is transparent and can be illuminated. Also optionally such a version can be used in a pattern game where a push button illuminates until it is depressed and in another game where a user determines how fast the user can press an illuminated push button, causing the illumination to cease. The light can be within a housing for the push button or within the body of the toy. In one such version the single light directly illuminates all the push buttons, and in another such version fiber optic fibers go from a light source to each push button, enabling individual control and the aforementioned games.

A mobile object apparatus includes an electric power reception unit that receives electric power transmitted in a non-contact manner from, out of a plurality of power feed apparatuses that are allocated to a plurality of small areas within a predetermined area and are capable of transmitting electric power in a non-contact manner, the power feed apparatus allocated to the small area adjacent to the mobile object apparatus, a drive unit that executes a movement operation on the predetermined area, and an electric power storage unit that stores an electric power amount requisite for the movement operation to the small areas within a predetermined range from the adjacent small area.

There is provided a hand-held controller for a virtual-reality system. The hand-held controller includes a user-input surface and a grip coupled to the user-input surface. The user-input surface includes a first user-input key situated on the user-input surface. The first user-input key includes a first capacitive touch sensor to detect a finger of a user hovering above the first user-input key and contacting the first user-input key.

A gaming hardware device is disclosed having an interactive gaming platform that can be connected to a multi-purpose central console. The electronics for making an interactive board game are divided so that a minimal part is in an interactive platform that includes the game board, while all the logic and processing part is relegated to a central console that can be reused also for other interactive platforms. A game kit having the hardware device and a plurality of game pieces containing a passive RFID TAG readable by the central console as well as a method of controlling a board game kit is also disclosed.

The object of the present invention relates to an energy management system of hardware of an electronic RF die for the coordination of the electronic RF die with remote terminals (e.g., PC, tablet, smartphone, gaming console). The system for reducing the consumption of an electronic game die includes four different activation levels of the hardware components, such as the microcontroller and accelerometer. The system includes two different activation thresholds, which can be set and updated dynamically, and are detected by the accelerometer to activate the different hardware components and adjust the transition between operating modes. The system detects the active presence of remote terminals and, particularly, whether or not the data sent has been received. Further, the system dynamically adapts the parameters of the four operating modes and the two activation thresholds to the different use situations of the die, i.e., to different environmental and game conditions.