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Found Footage: Captain iPod T. Shuffle takes on Kindle Noonien Singh
When it comes to screen pathos, nobody does it better than Shatner and Montelban in the classic confrontation Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan. Now the twisted minds at the SciFi Network's Dvice blog have taken a wonderful cinematic moment, full of overwrought line readings, and handed it over to the voice-synthesis capabilities of the Amazon Kindle 2 and the iPod shuffle via Talking Gadget Theater. "Buried alive... buried alive..."
This isn't the first screen collaboration for the two gadgets; they also did a rendition of the interrogation scene from Blade Runner -- clip in the 2nd half of this post.
Now, if we can get the iPod shuffle to convincingly say "I'd like to thank the members of the Academy," we'll be on to something.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Varun said 10:01AM on 4-29-2009
Thank you for that.
Now let me see if IT will approve a replacement keyboard for the coffee spew.
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EMoShunz said 10:10AM on 4-29-2009
awesome.
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Dave said 1:45PM on 4-29-2009
Very awesome.
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DT said 4:30AM on 4-30-2009
Assumed that's the real artificial voice of Kindle I must say the output sounds really good.
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macserv said 6:56AM on 5-01-2009
Yeah, both voices are definitely impressive. I hadn't heard the Kindle's yet, but it's pretty good for long-term listening. Considering the iPod Shuffle's about 1/40th the size of a Kindle 2, the quality of the voice on that device is a bit more impressive.
macserv said 6:46AM on 5-01-2009
Ahahaha, that's fantastic. It really does give you a good picture of William Shatner's ability to chew the scenery. Ricardo Montalban, too, in this flick.
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