Alternatively, consider building a HAL replica with more capability, like controlling your home. Just don’t give it too much responsibility—we all know how that ends. Video after the break.

Ever fancied having your very own HAL 9000 supercomputer from the 2001 Space Odyssey film? Well, Adafruit has published instructions on how to create your very own Adafruit HAL 9000 replica for ...

If you enjoyed the 2001: A Space Odyssey film released back in 1968, and always wanted your very own HAL 9000 computer, you might be interested to learn that the Thinkgeek website is now selling a ...

When these machines are really descendants of HAL 9000. You know, the slightly less friendly intelligent assistant from "2001: A Space Odyssey." Now, a company called Master Replicas Group has ...

HAL-9000, the malevolent supercomputer at the heart of Stanley Kubrick’s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, is an icon of science fiction cinema. So much so, that if you ask any one of the virtual ...

A few years ago, you could buy an IRIS 9000 Bluetooth speaker. Its claim to fame was that it looked like the “eye” from the HAL 9000 computer on 2001: A Space Oddessy. There’s something ...

HAL 9000, the mellow-voiced but malevolent-minded computer from "2001: A Space Odyssey." (Thinkstock) HAL 9000, the mellow-voiced but malevolent-minded computer from "2001: A Space Odyssey." ...

This free Windows 7 theme turns your computer into HAL 9000 of “2001: A Space Odyssey”–or at least a safer simulacrum of it. Turn your Windows 7 desktop into HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick ...

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He was 90. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief Douglas Rain, the veteran Canadian stage actor who provided the soft and gentle voice of the rogue HAL 9000 computer for Stanley Kubrick’s classic ...