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ThinkGeek IRIS 9000 Dock Controls Siri, Won’t Try to Kill You (Unless Your Name is Dave)

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I can remember being freaked out by HAL 9000 when I was a kid. The thought of a computer that could think and try to kill you was pretty creepy. The main things I recall from the flick were that HAL said “Dave” a lot and had a glowing red…

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October 25th, 2011 by: Shane McGlaun

Lacie 5big Network Drive Looks Like Hal 9000′S Brother

Designer Neil Poulton got the inspiration for the domed glowing light on the outside of his latest hard drive design from the red light on the face of HAL 9000, the infamous computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey….

The new LaCie 5big Network storage array is designed for small

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October 12th, 2008 by: Technabob

Omega Orion Analog Synth Inspired by Kubrick

Omega Orion Synthesizer

When I think of 2001: A Space Odyssey…, it usually conjures up imagery of HAL 9000′s glowing red light, the strains of Also Sprach Zarathrustra, and dead astronauts launched silently into space.

But the guys over at Studio Electronics used the film as inspiration for the design of their

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July 31st, 2008 by: Technabob

Atari 2600: a Video Game Odyssey

Atari 2600 A Game Odyssey by psychoreindeer

Remember the ape/monolith scene from Kubrick’s classic 2001:A Space Odyssey…? Apparently these apes didn’t get the memo that it wasn’t an Odyssey [console] at all, but actually an Atari 2600.

This imaginative t-shirt by Akron, Ohio illustrator psychoreindeer reimagines that fateful monkey moment with a gigantic Atari joystick in

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July 3rd, 2008 by: Technabob

Xbox 360: a Space Odyssey

Xbox 360 RRoD T-Shirt

Has your Xbox 360 ever overheated? Do you dread the three Red Rings of Death? Have I got a t-shirt for you.

Inspired by the demented HAL9000 computer from the classic science fiction flick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, it shows the inimitable RRoD symbol along with the saying “I’m afraid…

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September 13th, 2007 by: Technabob

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