I’m sorry Dave: HAL 9000 finally comes to the iPhone
By far my favorite application on my Chumby personal widget device is the HAL 9000 app. It takes one of the truly great movie villains of all time from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and puts its glowing red eye on a screen while it talks to me in that terrifyingly monotone voice. It freaks out guests in my apartment - I love it. That’s why I’m shocked that it has taken this long for it to come to the iPhone.
But it’s finally here thanks to developer Jonathan Mulcahy, who has created a very simple app that just includes a picture of HAL and various sounds clips of his famous sayings. As you might imagine, when you touch HAL’s red orb, he speaks.
There is one other app based on HAL that I could find in the App Store, but apparently it’s just for taking notes. What I wanted was exactly this, a simple replication of HAL.
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