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Talking Gadget Theater Strikes Back: The Kindle and Shuffle do Star Wars
In the interest of beating a horse as much as we possibly can regardless of its health, we present to you the third installment of Talking Gadget Theater. This time out, the Amazon Kindle 2 and the iPod Shuffle take on the climactic scene in The Empire Strikes Back, which brings up the question: Can gadgets have Oedipal complexes?
And in case you missed them, you can still see the two gadgets perform scenes from Blade Runner and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
By macaddicted at 11:04 PM ON 05/01/09
Has anyone else noted that the characters played by the Kindle eventually end up dead?
By davemuaddib at 8:39 AM ON 05/03/09
Twenty more years and we won't need Hollywood...
By not1word at 11:57 AM ON 05/09/09
no no. Yep. It's very compelling. The emotion that came pouring from my speakers moved me to sleep.
By ppeirce at 9:18 AM ON 05/14/09
I want my one minute and twenty seconds back...
More personality comes out of my old Amiga 1000 speech program. And yes, my Amiga 1000 still works.
By Rob21 at 9:20 AM ON 05/21/09
Ah...yes. This is obviously the result of vacuous heaps of unimaginative jelly with a suits and ties on saying "We want to market our products to sci-fi geeks...Hey! I got an idea..what if we........."
By azpir8king at 2:21 PM ON 05/22/09
I want them to do a scene from American Chopper.....
By Chuck Baggett at 7:25 PM ON 05/29/09
I thought the Kindle voice was quite impressive. It's the best computer voice I've ever heard. I would love to have a program read streaming text such as a friendfeed chat stream to me with that quality.
I'm not really sure the Kindle's was a computer voice. Is this a joke?
By Jane Curtin at 3:20 PM ON 05/31/09
Next do a scene from 2001, that would be a lot closer to the Kindle's abilities...
By eeyore134 at 10:17 PM ON 06/03/09
Nope, that's how the Kindle actually reads. It's really pretty impressive, though it does stumble sometimes and definitely gets some inflections here and there wrong. I was pretty surprised how well it did myself, though I even have trouble listening to actors read me books, so I don't use it all that much.
By Gemma at 2:32 PM ON 07/23/09
It's "New KITT" as Darth Vader and Dr. Stephen Hawking as Luke Skywalker.
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