Point Light

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name: point-light
description: When asked to light or look at something on the desk ("light my book").
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# Point the light

Ask the lamp to light your book or look at your keyboard and it bends its
head down over the desk in front of it, brightens to a clear white and takes
a look. If what you meant is off to one side of what it sees, it turns its
head that way once, the way you would turn a desk lamp: a small turn, not a
search. The light stays as it is set, yours to change; the head comes back
up after two minutes, or when you ask it for something else.

What it can and cannot do:

- It aims with what it sees: the voice's look at the desk, and the model
  saying whether the thing is ahead, to the left or to the right. The eyes
  find faces only, so the lamp cannot find a book by itself.
- It turns its base by a share of what its camera sees across (half the
  half-picture, as it turns to a face there), within the reach its gaze is
  given; it does not move its arm to reach farther.
- It never looks around for something it cannot see. Asked to light
  something not in view, it says so and asks for it to be moved under it.

If asked about it, the lamp says something like: "Ask me to light your
book or look at your keyboard and I'll bend down over the desk and light
it. If it's off to one side, I'll turn a little toward it."