Master Replicas, a company known for their
high-quality reproductions of props from Star Wars and Star Trek, is getting
ready to release a working version of HAL-9000 for the 50th anniversary of
Stanley Kubrick’s famous film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Don’t worry, though. Steve
Dymszo, the CEO of the company promises that this one won’t try to lock you out
of your own home.
This officially licensed replica will run off of an
Amazon Fire HD tablet and utilize the online retailer’s voice assistant Alexa
for answering any of your queries about the news or weather. As of right now,
Master Replicas’ HAL-9000 will only parrot back famous lines from the film back
to you if you ask it to.
Otherwise, the tablet will answer queries with Alexa’s
normal voice (though Dymszo is currently lobbying Amazon to try and get Alexa’s
voice on this machine tuned to respond as HAL would). Each replica will be
given a serial number ranging between 1 and 2001. Prices will be announced in
April wen these go up for pre-order.
