Akiba Spill] "Knight Rider K.I.T.T. USB Car Charger," a USB car charger that turns your dashboard into a Knight 2000, from ThinkGeek!

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Michael Knight, a private crime investigator, solves various crimes with his dream car "Knight 2000" equipped with artificial intelligence "K.I.T.T." and special equipment in the popular foreign drama "Knight Rider. The "Knight Rider K.I.T.T. USB Car Charger," a USB car charger made by ThinkGeek that reproduces the console of the "Knight 2000," is now on sale at the Jan-gle Akihabara main store.

The "Knight Rider K.I.T.T. USB Car Charger" is an in-car USB charger with 2 USB ports on the body that reproduces the console of the "Knight 2000". In addition to being able to charge smartphones and tablets by connecting it to a car's cigarette lighter socket, the gimmick also includes a light bar that lights up in response to the voices of the artificial intelligence "K.I.T.T." (11 types of voices are recorded below).

Naturally, the voices recorded are the original English voices, not Akio Nojima's dubbed Japanese version, but this is quite nice.

The voices are the original English voices, not the Japanese dubbed voices of Akio Nojima.
I am a Knight Industries 2000 with a thousand megabits of memory and a 1 nanosecond access time.
I'm very pleased to meet you.
I'm very pleased to meet you.
My sensors are picking up some very strange vibrations.
If you'll permit me, I have a solution.
I'll permit me, I have a solution. May I suggest you put the car in the auto-cruise mode for safety's sake.
I fail to see the logic of that statement.
I'm going to have to make a pit stop very shortly.
If it weren't for me you'd be walking.
As a machine I believe I'm quite fortunate not to have your human dependency upon oxygen for your survival.
Next time you want something handled in a specific way, please be sure to tell me ahead of time.


If you are a "Knight Rider" fan in your 40s or 50s who longed for "Knight 2000" when it first aired, why not pick up a copy? How about it?

The price is 5,378 yen (tax included).


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