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HAL 9000 Still in the Future Other vendors were demonstrating important and interesting innovations as well – honorable mentions include Cambridge Semantics , Clusterpoint , Cognitive Scale ...

That is assuming you don't mind coughing up $500 on a geeky piece of wall art. Granted, this thing is a 100% accurate replica of the evil computer HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL 9000 — the neurotic computer — had a birthday in 1992 (for some reason, in the book it is 1997).In the late 1960s, that date sounded impossibly far away ...

Master Replica’s forthcoming Hal 9000 replica will tell you to your face that it won’t let you in through the pod bay doors, and it sends a chill up your spine when it does so.

The HAL 9000 theme replaces the start orb with HAL's eye, and it drops that iconic HAL 900 panel right in the center of the desktop. If you poke HAL in the eye on that panel, he'll talk to you.

In a new software update currently being tested by owners in Tesla’s early access program, the “Sentry Mode” graphic is changing from HAL 9000. It will be replaced by a Portal-style icon.

From HAL 9000 to M3GAN: What film's evil robots tell us about contemporary tech fears. Story by Adam Daniel • 46m. F ilmgoers have long been captivated by stories about robots.

But get this: HAL 9000 also responds to your voice. That’s right, say something to HAL longer than 1.2 seconds, and it’ll activate a sound clip.

From HAL 9000 to M3GAN: what film’s evil robots tell us about contemporary tech fears Published: June 25, 2025 4:12pm EDT. Adam Daniel, Western Sydney University. Author.