Shapeways Siri Contest: iPhone 4S Virtual Assistant Brought To Life Through Design (PICTURES)

Ever since the iPhone 4S was released back in October, the device's voice-controlled virtual assistant app has captured the attention of users and non-users alike. By now, we've grown accustomed to Siri and her pleasant monotone, always at our virtual beck-and-call with a good sense of humor to boot. But now, Siri's got a face. Several faces, actually, thanks to the creative minds who submitted unique Siri renderings to Shapeways, a 3D printing service and online marketplace.

The New York-based start-up held a contest on its website calling all Shapeways community members, Twitter users and others to submit their ideas -- whether an image, video, sketch, or model -- of what Siri might look like. The online contest started on February 1 and closed on February 20 at 11:59 EST. The talented winners, one for the 3D Design category and another for the Inspiring Design category, will be awarded a 3D printing of their Siri design.

Shapeway announced the contest results in a blog post on February 29. Check out the slideshow (below) to see the winning designs, followed by the honorable mentions. We'll tell you this much right now: If Siri really looked like some of these models, Android's Voice Actions app wouldn't stand half a chance.

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[GaryNOVA]

02:32 PM on 03/03/2012

Siri looks like the girlfriend you are supposed to have instead of not leaving your house so you can type about what Siri looks like on the Huffingtonpost.

[jencanfield7]

04:45 PM on 03/02/2012

Pretty cool. I like #6 and #1

[AirAssault]

12:01 PM on 03/02/2012

Siri isn't real and doesn't care about you people, get a clue! (for those of you who think she is.... You know who you are.)

[TranceAnd]

05:23 PM on 03/02/2012

jeez chill

[Aleksandar Petrovic]

02:42 AM on 03/02/2012

Realy creepy...

[jrb35]

12:29 AM on 03/02/2012

The second one seems to be lifted from Richard K. Morgan's WOKEN FURIES.

[Eddie Adolf]

09:44 AM on 03/02/2012

If reading wasn't painfully slow for me, that could be true. But I thought it was an obvious solution.

[jrb35]

03:14 PM on 03/02/2012

My apologies. I didn't mean for my comment to sound so accusatory. I should have written that it reminded me of something I read in Woken Furies. Regardless, your art is pretty cool. Wish I could make stuff like that.

Reading is slow for me too. I highly recommend the audio book version of Richard K. Morgan's masterpiece ALTERED CARBON. Probably the best sci-fi book I've ever read (or listened to). It is the first in a series of which WOKEN FURIES is third.

[LightShadow62]

02:54 PM on 03/01/2012

The reality is that Siri is a nondescript collection of circuits in a server farm.

[bfcg]

12:27 PM on 03/01/2012

In the 70's, citizens band radios were very popular. At night me and my friends would stay up late and just chatter on the CB. Occasionally a new voice would show up and become part of the group. Sometimes these new voices were girls. Well we were mostly around the ages of 14-17 and were very "ready and willing" if you know what I mean. Since we did not know the girls, we had to let our imaginations do the work of applying a face to a voice. I have had some horrific eye opening experiences when finally meeting with some of these voices in the flesh.
Just sayin'.....

[littlepuffycloud]

11:35 AM on 03/01/2012

It's funny how so many people prefer to test and never have to actually talk to anybody, but they get all excited about a robotic voice..It seems like our evolutionary path will include very elongated fingers and shrinking vocal cords.

[Tom Hn]

11:08 AM on 03/01/2012

I don't like the idea of personifying a technical feature. To me, it is best left to be just letters of "Siri".

[FinalHorcrux]

10:03 AM on 03/01/2012

Some of these photos are extremely disturbing...

[bmwracer]

09:32 AM on 03/01/2012

Looks like Siri wants out of Apple as well. :P

[ingua2]

09:21 AM on 03/01/2012

like a pedo version of Steve Jobs, luring clowns into thinking Siri is actually worth something other than a canned response database.

[Bobcatter]

08:39 AM on 03/01/2012

The apple should have won. The rest are kind of disturbing.

[ingua2]

09:22 AM on 03/01/2012

it can't win. Apple would sue the artist.

[Brian M Lion]

08:14 AM on 03/01/2012

The "red eye" in the apple is an exact copy of HAL 9000 from "2001: A Space Odyssey" ...... don't bloggers do any research at all?!

[DavidEvan]

07:01 AM on 03/01/2012

Mine looks like tthe face in the painting "the Scream"