Amazon’s new $180 eight-inch touchscreen tablet is a hub that can both connect and control your smart home gadgets. ByJennifer Pattison Tuohy, Amazon announced theEcho Hub ($179.99) at its fall hardware event on Wednesday. Designed specifically as a smart home controller, the Echo Hub is ...
The Echo Show has an awful lot of potential, and with slightly better sound than the touchscreen-free Echo, it assumes its place as the fanciest Alexa gadget yet. Still, its ultimate success will largely depend on what outside developers -- and Amazon itself -- choose to do with it as ...
Raising the bar even before Apple's rumored entry into the "smartspeaker" market, Amazon is at work on a new "Echo-like" model which will have a 7-inch touchscreen and high-end audio, a report said on Tuesday. Amazon's current flagship Echo. The touchscreen will make it ea...
Amazon's voice-driven personal assistant Alexa is going visual, via the online retailer's new high-end Echo Show, a $230 tabletop personal assistant featuring a 7-inch touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera, and dual 2-inch stereo speakers. Notably, theAmazon Echo Showis only...
gives alexa the touchscreen it needed now that there’s a screen in the echo universe, there’s almost nothing you and alexa can’t do. amazon save save the amazon echo is a stupendously powerful device. it can control your lights, play ed sheeran jams, keep a to-do list, check the...
Amazon’s $230 Echo Show, which launches on Wednesday, is a fine assistant barista, with a touchscreen that can show the seconds running down. But what really sets the Echo Show apart from its screen-less siblings is how it’s coaxed me into using it as more than just a glorifi...
All those speakers may have to play catch-up once again, as Amazon tries to stay ahead of the pack with the Echo Show. Cozy in the kitchen? While some users may balk at the idea of yet another screen in their house, the Echo Show does add some helpful new features. In many w...
"A screen in the Echo universe means there’s almost nothing you and Alexa can’t do." category tags: Voice/AI/Voice Assistants Amazon’s ‘Echo Show’ Gives Alexa the Touchscreen It Needed Categories AgeTech (990) aging in place (178) Aging, ageism (60) AI and machine learning ...
Amazon is planning to update its Amazon Echo line with a new speaker that includes a screen and video calling capabilities, reports The Wall Street...
assistants like Lexi (iOS) and Roger (iOS and Android) — are perhaps prescient predictors of what Alexa on the Knight might eventually look like: a touchscreen-based interface that lets you interact more with Amazon’s voice service in more granular ways than the Echo speakers currently allow...