Photo: ToyTalk Apple’s latest acquisition could give Siri a better chance at competing against Amazon’s popular voice-power assistant, Alexa. Pullstring, a San Francisco-based startup that specializes in hel
Published on: October 20, 2024 | 4 Comments on How Amazon Echo Alexa Helps Seniors with Dementia Alexa voice assistant helps seniors with dementia At first glance, Amazon Echo’s Alexa voice assistant might seem like just another tech toy. But in real life, many have found that Alexa devices...
Photo: ToyTalk Apple’s latest acquisition could give Siri a better chance at competing against Amazon’s popular voice-power assistant, Alexa. Pullstring, a San Francisco-based startup that specializes in helping developers design, prototype and deploy voice apps has reportedly been purchased by ...
To help developers get started using Custom Interfaces, Amazon dumped a bunch of sample projects online that can serve as a guide for those building skills using Raspberry Pi and Python-based software. From there, users can amplify their new Alexa toy using theAlexa Gadgets Toolkit, enabling Ale...
design, basic voice controls and elementary color capabilities, the Echo Glow is meant to teach youngsters the basics of Alexa. But even if the proposition of introducing your child to a corporate giant doesn't give you the willies, the Echo Glow only partially succeeds as an educational toy....
The Rubik's Cube wasinvented in 1974 by a professorin his mother's Budapest apartment. The twisty-turny puzzle cube became really popular in 1980, though, when it debuted at the New York toy fair. The toy was immediately popular, and about 100 million cubes were sold in the next three...
“Alexa is a toy”: Exploring older adults' reasons for using, limiting, and abandoning Echo Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2020), pp. 1-13, 10.1145/3313831.3376760 Google Scholar Vansteenkiste and Ryan, 2013 M. Vansteenkiste, R.M. Ryan On ...
During December, when kids say, “Alexa, open my toy box” or “Alex, open my gift,” they’ll hear a different response each day, including jokes, fun facts, stories, or songs. Children can also use theSanta’s Letter Blueprintskill to compose a letter in which can include their wis...
And if you don't like it, or it bothers you when you're sleeping (if you put the Sol on your bedside table), you can always turn it off completely within the C by GE app. So, the Sol is pretty and pricey. But how did it change my life? The same way the Echo and Alexa ...
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