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Chattie is a new service that acts as your replacement on MSN. As soon as you go offline, your Chattie takes over. Since Chattie is your personal chatbot, you can define what he says.

Almere is the first Dutch city to have a virtual agent installed on its homepage. Her name is Ally and she will answer any question asked on Almere.nl, giving the site a truly personal touch. The launch of Ally is a result of a successful experiment with the Almere Hyves page (alike to Facebook) and has been officially live on Almere.nl since March.

We engage in numerous discussions throughout the day, about a variety of topics, from work assignments to the Super Bowl to what we are having for dinner that evening. We effortlessly move from conversation to conversation, probably not thinking twice about our brain’s ability to understand everything that is being said to us. How does the brain turn seemingly random sounds and letters into sentences with clear meaning?

Carnegie Mellon undergraduates Dan Eisenberg, Kevin Li and Ilya Brin have developed the EyeTable, which is described as “an artificially intelligent dinner table that reads physical gestures and speech patterns and lets the participants know how the date is going-in real time.

The Swedish design team TAT (The Astonishing Tribe), has demonstrated a 3D-eyetracking UI that tracks the position of our eyes and changes the display accordingly. This really gives a feeling that objects are behind one another. Earlier the team developed the look and feel of the T-Mobile G1’s user interface which included such innovations as the window shade menu and 9-point visual key-lock.