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Forget joysticks. In future, you will be able to interact with computer games via a weird plastic head sitting next to you, which chats away, takes instructions and does your bidding on-screen. Spookily, its gaze will even follow you around the room, says inventor 20/20 Speech of Chelsea, London.

The life-size model will have bulbous eyes and lips made of a reflecting material (GB2377112). A small projector mounted above the head beams a moving video image of a face onto the dummy. As the computer speaks, the model’s lips appear to move in synchrony and the eyeballs move from side…

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