Production has already begun, and the company hope to begin shipping the devices this fall.
HAL 9000 BUY SERIES
A special numbered series will be featured, from 1 to 2001. No price has been revealed, but Master Replicas will begin taking pre-orders in April, and is also launching a Kickstarter campaign. “It’s the first prop replica that can be updated,” he said. At present, the device only responds to wake-up calls with lines from the movie, but CEO Steve Dymszo told The Verge that they hope to get Amazon’s approval to have it answer inquiries with HAL’s voice. The HAL-9000 features a Fire HD tablet as its base, and it uses Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa. The new company, comprised of several former employees, is launching with a line of officially licensed collectibles inspired by the 50th anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The original company produced a line of authentic but pricey sci-fi replica props from films such as Star Wars before closing its doors in 2008. Master Replicas is not your typical tech startup. villains, has been recreated in loving detail by Master Replicas Group as a virtual assistant using Amazon’s Echo technology. The malevolent HAL-9000, which recently topped our list of A.I. from Stanley Kubrick’s opus 2001: A Space Odyssey may soon find a place in your home reciting your favorite recipe or telling you about the weather.
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