Movie-accurate HAL 9000 bosses you around the house

I'm sorry, Dave.

(Credit: ThinkGeek)

ThinkGeek boasts that the HAL 9000 life-size replica is the "most movie-accurate HAL 9000 replica ever created." Let's hope it's only movie-accurate enough to be entertaining and not deadly.

If you're a fan of HAL 9000 and want to bring a little bit of that relentless robotic terror into your home, you can plunk down $500 for a sentient computer of your own (minus the actual sentience.) This HAL 9000 is better-behaved than the real thing. You still get the menacing red LED eye, but he won't try to kill you.

There's a reason for the hefty price tag. The replica is machined from aircraft-grade aluminum. It's based on blueprints and studio files from the original movie. There's a glass lens over the LED eye and the whole thing is hand-assembled.

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