![]() In most cases, if a company fights the patent trolls lawsuits. You can pre-order now to make sure you get in on the first batch, though. Speak of trolls, did anyone read up the crazy lawsuit Apple won against Motorola. The IRIS 9000 won’t ship until 2012, which means you’ll have to go through the holidays without your own HAL 9000 clone. And, yes, it works for that purpose, too, so your date doesn’t have to find out your nerdy little secret. In case you’re having a girl over, you can disguise your “Space: 2001 Odyssey” obsession by telling her the rig is just your speakerphone for making and receiving hands-free calls. The red LED eye flickers along with her voice, too, so it’s really like having your own heuristically-programmed algorithmic computer. This case is Back Case that covers the back and sides of the phone. The built-in mic will pick up your queries and commands from a distance, while the speaker will amplify Siri’s voice so you can hear it from afar. HAL 9000 is a fictional artificial intelligence character and the main antagonist in Arthur C. Why deal with a virtual assistant that you can’t holler at from across the room? With the IRIS 9000, you don’t have to. Exclusive product designed and manufactured by ThinkGeek You will be able to purchase the IRIS 9000 Voice Control Module for iPhone & Siri from ThinkGeek for only 59.99 this coming April. Illustration basierend auf dem Film 2001 - A Space Odyssey von Stanley Kubrick. Since Siri can’t be controlled from afar, the set also comes with a micro-remote that lets you punch a button to trigger the app’s actions and responses from up to 50 feet away. English: Illustration of the HAL 9000 computer case, based on Stanley Kubricks film 2001 - A Space Odyssey. ![]() Clarke’s AI robot.Ī unique iPhone accessory, it consists of a cradle for docking your handset and a tower-style speaker with an ominous glowing red eye that resembles HAL 9000’s iconic camera lens. As it turns out, we don’t have to wait for Siri’s future incarnations to get that with the IRIS 9000, a voice control module that turns your iPhone into a clone of Arthur C. When Siri first rolled out on the iPhone 4S, many sci-fi geeks were thinking one thing: it’s like the progenitor for our very own HAL 9000. This was brought to my attention yesterday on The Verge, now when you ask your iPhone’s personal assistant HAL 9000 Siri certain music related songs, it replies, Sorry admin, I can’t look up the music charts for you.
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