I really find Hal useful with its "remind me" feature and its ablity to remember addresses, phone numbers ect. And the ability to do math, ect. I think it is close to being a killer application.
I would suggest bringing out a professional/business version of Hal. Features would include:
- The current remind me and adress/phone memory functions
- A "take notes" feature, one that works like AnswerPad
- Drop the animation and random talk (unless the user wants it to run through various facts for memorization)
- Add a database of business info, business math formulas, ect.
- Have the AI/Associative functions work a little better, kind of like AnswerPad, but aim at the business information. For instance, if I ask the formula for profit, point out there is a another was to calculate profit.
I already find HAL pretty useful as it is -- but making a work/business version would be ideal.
Roger