Douglas Rain, a Canadian actor best known for voicing the HAL 9000 computer in Stanley Kubrick's classic film "2001: A Space Odyssey," died on Sunday. He was 90.

Once you have built the basic HAL 9000 replica, there are numerous ways to expand and customize it. For instance, you could integrate voice recognition software to make your HAL 9000 interactive.

We would like to nominate HAL as a character of great influence in popular American culture. For a people awed by technology, and terrified by our minimal understanding of it, he is the perfect icon.

The HAL 9000 Life-Size Replica features a custom-ground replica, with a sticker of the writing on the Nikkor lens (in case you want your HAL to be accurate down to the close-ups).”-” ...

hal 9000 11 Articles . I’m Sorry Dave, I Only Say 28 Phrases. May 23, 2016 by Al Williams 16 Comments . A few years ago, you could buy an IRIS 9000 Bluetooth speaker.

He insisted, however, that HAL-exa was an authentic HAL 9000 "minus the killing-people-while-they-are-sleeping part." I take his word for it, of course. For now.

The HAL 9000 Bluetooth Speaker Edition will sell for $600 while the Command Console will go for $1,200. While the Indiegogo campaign offers discounts, only 2,001 Command Consoles will be made.

"2001: A Space Odyssey" would have been a much better if HAL 9000 had been voiced by Bob Belcher.

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Douglas Rain, the Canadian actor who provided the voice to the HAL 9000 computer in Stanley Kubrick‘s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, died Sunday at the age of 90.. The Stratford Festival in ...