Amazon has made Alexa an immensely popular product, so much so that it is the virtual assistant of choice for most gadget addicts, leaving big companies like Google and Apple behind. However, this free choice is the same that allows us to see really fantastic things through the most intrepid users, Today we show you how they have turned Amazon's Alexa into HAL of 2001: an odyssey in space.
Stay with us and discover what is necessary to get to this, and above all, how this peculiar hybrid system works that pretends to be what it is not in reality.
The development has been carried out by Master Replica Group, a team of engineers who have already done similar work in the past with tremendously good results, especially in franchises such as Star Wars and even Star Trek. Everything is getting we imagine, although I doubt that a standard user is capable of carrying out such a well-designed job. Now it's time to see how this interactive HAL replica is able to open and close your windows, control the lights in your home and even tell you what the weather forecast is for that day.
For starters, they have changed the voice a bit to Alexa, which now speaks as HAL. And above all, to make the device work interactively and showing a panel, They have used one of the Fire tablets that Amazon makes available to all its customers, more specifically they say they have used the Amazon Fire HD model. The replica that they have made is incredible and it could undoubtedly become an interesting attraction in our house. They have announced that they will start with the first shipments around the month of August or September of this year, and that the campaign with more details about the price and the performance will be published on Kickstarter.