Patent ID: 8540546

Claim:
A toy comprising: a processor; a memory for storing at least one group of data, each group consisting of a plurality of expressive responses, and each said group representing a respective theme; an output for said expressive responses; and at least one of means for connection to a computer and a connector for connecting to a computer, to download each said group of data, the group of data for download being user-selectable to enable user selection of a particular theme; the toy being configured to exchange such responses with another such toy, each said group of data comprising both responses and counter-responses, so that the toy may converse with another such toy on the particular theme; wherein a new such group of data can be loaded into said memory so that the toy can converse on a different user-selectable theme; whereby the toy can converse in a plurality of different user-selectable themes, one theme at a time.