Abstract: An electronic device for the recognizing and the selecting of a plurality of items belonging to different item groups comprises means for acquiring said items, apt to generate corresponding coded signals identifying the items and the respective groups they belong to; a microprocessor control unit apt to be inputted said coded signals; and one or more output devices activated by said control unit, each of said output devices being apt to provide one or more responses, each response being corresponding to one of said coded signals. Said device could advantageously be utilized for the making of an interactive educational toy, in particular in the field of nutrition education.

Abstract: Doll with limbs subject to motor for its movement, having an esophagus which leads to the mouth in order to introduce objects/food sensitive to the passage of the objects/food, to give a start signal to such motors with at least one sensor organ, electrically connected to the motor, and on such connection is placed an individual timer, to stop the motor after a prefixed time. Apart from movement, the response of the doll to the introduction of objects/food can be equivalent to the movements and/or reactions of a child, obtained by means of the aforesaid sensor organs, using a motor or timer or equivalent, with the purpose of giving an alimentary education, a relation cause of the introduction of the food, which has prefixed values, and the characteristics and metabolism.