http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/ Engadget Comments for Movie Gadget Friday: 2010: The Year We Make Contact http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 28th 2008 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 28th 2008 11:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 28th 2008 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 29th 2008 4:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/
"I for one welcome..."
"but will it play doom/crysis"]]>Mar 28th 2008 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 28th 2008 11:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 29th 2008 1:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 29th 2008 4:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 28th 2008 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 29th 2008 2:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Fogive my bad spelling..............]]>Mar 29th 2008 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/
Of course I wasn't around back then when they were first released, so the Magic may be lost on me.]]>Mar 28th 2008 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 28th 2008 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 28th 2008 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 28th 2008 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 29th 2008 12:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 28th 2008 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 28th 2008 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/What letters in the alphabet come after each letter of HAL?
Arthur C. himself said so during an interview I saw years ago.]]>Mar 29th 2008 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/


yep.]]>Mar 29th 2008 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/]]>Mar 29th 2008 1:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 29th 2008 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/
H+1 = I
A+1 = B
L+1 = M

IBM]]>Mar 29th 2008 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 29th 2008 11:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 29th 2008 1:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 29th 2008 3:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/
2001 was always intended to be standalone. 2010, even though it was written by Clarke, was basically a cash-in. The movie, being directed by a Hollywood hack not really known for anything else, was an even worse cash-in.

As for the gadgets, it's actually kind of amazing that the gadgets in 2010 seem actually *older* than the gadgets in 2001. Just goes to show how forward-thinking Kubrick was. My guess is they tried to make 2010 seem more "realistic" and possible by putting in gadgets that were familiar at the time the movie was made. So instead of 3D vector-based flat panel screens, they went back to rounded CRT's with chunky, low-res raster graphics. If I remember right, they even replaced some of HAL's displays from 2001 with older CRT's.

The whole movie felt less futuristic (which by now means it just feels old and obsolete) and less important.
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take its name and change it by one letter (ie A->B) and you'll see what i mean.]]>Mar 29th 2008 1:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/ IBM (SC: "unintentional")
Leonov -> guess yourself

anyone else scared too ??]]>Mar 29th 2008 5:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 29th 2008 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/Mar 29th 2008 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/
Lenovo
Leonov

Time to replace my T61 with shiny new Lenovo HAL 9000.]]>Mar 29th 2008 5:35PM