Replica of 2001: A Space Odyssey's HAL 9000 powered by Amazon Alexa

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/03/16/replica-of-2001-a-space-odyss.html

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Take my money.

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Alexa does sound a (very) tiny, tiny bit like SAL-9000, but…

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Daisy… Daisy.
Give me your $549.99
do.

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Does no one else remember how that movie ended?

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Sadly, Alexa doesn’t sound anything like Douglas Rain.

She does in spirit. She does in spirit.

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Yes! Astronaut Bowman got to live his 1st life out in a really swanky, inter-dimensional, 5-star, luxury hotel, then was gloriously brought back as a fresh new baby – Star Baby! – who got to look down on cruddy ol’ Earth.

:wink:

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It integrates an Amazon Fire tablet and Echo?

I’m sorry, Jeff - I can’t buy this.

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Poor Gary Lockwood, though. He didn’t even get to appear in any of the sequels.

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Wasn’t he the ‘stiff’ riding in Musk’s 'vette?

via Imgflip Meme Generator

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Not the very end; but the part you quoted earlier.

Seriously though; not any more than I would buy or play with one of these:

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Not sure what that last thing is.

You’ve never seen Hellraiser?

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Nope. I have not.

Ah well, then… here’s a hint;

DO NOT MESS WITH THE BOX.

It never ends well, not for anyone.

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If the nails-in-the-head thing does the number on my migraines I’d be tempted.

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I don’t think that’s your run of the mill acupuncture, there.

Besides IIRC, only Pinhead got that particular treatment; each cenobite’s ‘body-mod torture’ was different.

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