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    Siri gets a HAL 9000 makeover thanks to ThinkGeek

    By Mike Wehner, Tecca | Today in Tech – Wed, Oct 26, 2011

    Give your iPhone some vintage sci-fi flair with the IRIS 9000

    When Apple unveiled its new iPhone 4S, the most striking new feature was the integrated virtual assistant named Siri. And you don't have to be a sci-fi junkie to know that Siri's eerily casual conversations are similar to those of HAL 9000, the evil computer AI of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Now, ThinkGeek is making that connection even more opaque with the IRIS 9000, an interactive dock for the iPhone 4S that gives Siri some old-school style.

    When an iPhone 4S is plugged into the dock and Siri is activated, an iconic HAL-esque red eye pulses as virtual assistant speaks, just like in the Odyssey movies.  The IRIS comes complete with a remote control to activate Siri from across the room, and features a built-in microphone to make sure your digital helper can hear you from a distance. A speaker inside the dock amplifies your iPhone's audio so you can listen to your new computer overlord loud and clear.

    The IRIS 9000 is currently in production and ThinkGeek expects to have it ready for sale by April of 2012. The nifty gadget will set you back a totally reasonable $59.99.

    This article originally appeared on Tecca

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    12 comments

    • Morphe0us
      Morphe0us  •  7 mths ago
      me: Siri...
      siri: Yes Master...
      me: make me a sandwich...
      siri: f.u.
      me: what?.. but.. but.. but...
      siri: i said f.u.
      me: your supposed to do as i say!
      siri: you heard me.. f.u... make your own dang sandwich!
      me: ok, not as helpful as i'd hoped. =(
      • M W
        M W 7 mths ago
        LOL!!!!!!!
    • Rob Base!
      Rob Base!  •  7 mths ago
      All this does is allow more d-bags to talk loudly into their phones and annoy the people around them...

      Droid's been like this for a year already, and it's annoying
    • nonya business
      nonya business  •  7 mths ago
      great! Now all Siri needs is to be able to work! lol
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Jersey Shore, United States  •  7 mths ago
      and it works like it's from 2001 as well......
    • Jules
      Jules  •  7 mths ago
      Feakin cool.
    • FIX YAHOO
      FIX YAHOO  •  7 mths ago
      Another worthless accessory.
    • Brian D
      Brian D  •  7 mths ago
      Siri is a joke. It's one of those features that you use for the first week, and than never touch it again. Voice recognition software is dumb.
      • M W
        M W 7 mths ago
        I am on Android, I am not going back to iPhone for a myriad of reasons, but Siri is beyond simple voice recognition...find a friend who has it. There's no denying its cool factor.

        I was going to see a friend at his place on Saturday, and he was going out. So he told Siri to remind him to call me when he left for home. As soon as it detected (via GPS) that he'd left where he was for home, it spoke up and reminded him. A simple example, but Android can't do that ... yet...and I LOVE Android. But Siri is cool!
    • Mike Hughes
      Mike Hughes  •  Pennsauken, United States  •  7 mths ago
      Won't you charge me, Dave?
    • Ryan and Mark B.
      Ryan and Mark B.  •  Los Angeles, United States  •  7 mths ago
      My experience so far with Siri is that when you ask it a question, it finds the location on the internet for you to get the answer. Siri does not answer the question for you.
    • nonya business
      nonya business  •  7 mths ago
      Frank, no they don't
    • CyberBiker
      CyberBiker  •  Little Rock, United States  •  7 mths ago
      As the author cannot be bothered to distinguish between the “evil” humans & the HAL 9000 artificial intelligence they tortured into lying; I will ignore the rest of his enfeebled ranting.

      It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
      Arthur C. Clarke
    • Frank Fulton
      Frank Fulton  •  Palm Bay, United States  •  7 mths ago
      Do they have one that works with android?
      • Rob Base!
        Rob Base! 7 mths ago
        Yeh... for over a year now....
      • M W
        M W 7 mths ago
        Not like Siri, no. there Vlingo, and its good, but its nowhere near on par with Siri...and I'm an Android user and big fan.
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