3/30/2023 0 Comments Hal 9000 lens![]() The HAL 9000 Command Console is actually an Alexa-enabled smart speaker/digital assistant that accepts voice commands and “responds with appropriate audio clips and video displays.” The console is backlit with color-selectable bias lighting and features a removable HAL 9000 Bluetooth speaker and a bank of ten backlit control buttons for selecting graphics and controlling/interacting with HAL. An LED in the eye lens provides a red glow that looks just like the prop seen in the film. Prices are $499 and $999, respectively, and delivery is slated for January and March 2019.īuilt to scale from the original studio blueprints, the HAL 9000 Bluetooth Speaker features a glass eye lens, brushed aluminum faceplate, extruded aluminum trim, and built-in magnets for mounting on a desk or wall. The company raised $650,475 on Indiegogo earlier this year to fund development of the speaker and console, far exceeding its original goal of $80,000. Actually, there are two versions of the resurrected HAL - the wall-mountable Command Console (left in photo) and the slender Bluetooth Speaker Edition that comes with a stand/power supply. MRG has created a Warner Bros.-approved “beautiful prop replica” that doubles as a Bluetooth speaker. No, we’re talking about HAL, the soft-spoken computer-turned-psychopath. Dave Bowman or one of the other astronauts on the mysterious space mission. In 1972, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Supporting or Featured Actor in a Drama for his performance as William Cecil in "Vivat! Vivat Regina!" on Broadway.To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, Master Replicas Group (MRG) has created a special tribute to one of the central characters in a cinematic masterpiece that portrays the ultimate showdown between man and machine. Rain was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and trained at the Old Vic Theatre in London. "The thing that captured the audience's imagination back then more even than a chatty computer decades before Siri and Alexa was that unnervingly, HAL had a mind of his own," the NPR critic Bob Mondello wrote in April on the 50th anniversary of the film's release.Ī survey by the American Film Institute ranked HAL as the 13th-greatest villain in movie history. The red lens that served as the 'eye' of the HAL 9000 computer in '2001: A Space Odyssey' - one of the iconic images in movie history. ![]() "This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it," HAL quietly tells astronaut Dave Bowman before proceeding to explain matter-of-factly that it had learned of Bowman's and Poole's plans to disconnect it by reading their lips. HAL concluded that the first command superseded the second. He had been given conflicting programming: Ensure the success of the mission at all costs, while also protecting the lives of the crew. HAL's reasoning and explanation were cold, precise and - at least in its mind - unavoidably logical. Rain's sinuous, detached reading of HAL's lines made the computer's murders of three astronauts as they slept in suspended animation and its subsequent stranding of astronaut Frank Poole to die in open space all the more shocking. The HAL 9000 computer was the sentient controller of life support, systems and - although it wasn't revealed until later in the movie - the very mission of Discovery One, the spacecraft that is sent to Jupiter to investigate a mysterious black obelisk in the landmark 1968 science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. ![]() ![]() dxcffgGEiA- Stratford Festival November 12, 2018 Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. Today we lost Douglas Rain, a member of our founding company and a hugely esteemed presence on our stages for 32 seasons.
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