The Iris 9000 from Think Geek is a neat device that lets you control Siri from across the room, but the real draw is the nostalgic design. The voice control module looks like Hal from "2001: A ...

HAL 9000 was the super-computer in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: ... It means HAL'S sinister one-liners like: "Just what do you think you're doing Dave," will remain in the realms of fantasy.

I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song.

A host of science fiction films have included AI systems that are intended to aid space explorers, such as HAL 9000 from "2001: A Space Odyssey." Real-world AI systems, however, need additional ...

The International Space Station got a new “crew member” of sorts: CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion), an interactive AI assistant that can float around the station and help answer ...

They do more than just look pretty, though. The HAL-9000 leverages the Alexa Voice Service, a suite of tools that allows developers to add features of Amazon’s Alexa assistant to connected ...

Not only can you talk and interact with HAL, recreating some of the movie’s more quotable human-AI repartee, the wall-mounted replica also has Amazon’s Alexa built-in, which you can use to ...

Everyone's favorite electronics hobby shop, Adafruit has posted instructions for building your own HAL 9000 replica out of a big red button, an Arduino board, and some cleverly cut plastic.

It was a little over a year ago that ThinkGeek gave folks a chance to add a bit of 2001 to their home with the IRIS 9000 iPhone dock, but it's really gone the extra mile this year. The retailer ...