Amazon has revealed new Echo speakers, although they don’t look much different on the outside. Once the centerpiece of the company’s Alexa lineup, Amazon didn’t debut a new “regular” model last year. In 2020, it unveiled a completely redesigned Echo with a spherical shape instead of its previous cylindrical construction. The “regular” Echo isn’t getting…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Building off of its success convincing the public to outfit their homes and offices with various Alexa-enabled Echo devices, Amazon introduced the very first Echo Auto in 2018. More than a million pre-orders and four years later, the Echo Auto is getting an upgrade, Amazon announced Wednesday at its 2022 Device and Services event. The…
BMW began incorporating smart voice features into its infotainment systems using Amazon’s Alexa in 2018. In the intervening years, the number of models sporting the digital assistant have only increased. At Amazon’s 2022 Devices & Services Event on Wednesday, the two companies announced a deepening of their partnership: BMW’s next-generation of infotainment systems will feature…
Amazon isn’t done updating its Eero router lineup this year, if not quite in the way you’d expect. The brand’s new Echo Dot speakers now double as Eero WiFi extenders. Plug one in and you’ll get as much as 1,000 square feet of additional coverage. That speaker on your nightstand could improve the internet connection…
We’ve already seen Ring add Bird’s Eye View — its fancy 3D motion detection — to its flagship security camera and its flagship outdoor light camera. Consequently, you get no prizes for guessing that the feature is now coming to the new Ring Spotlight Cam Pro. The new Pro Spotlight Cam is joined by a…
Blink, Amazon’s other home security company, primarily focuses on small, affordable and mostly battery-powered devices. Today, however, it’s launching a Floodlight Camera that, unlike the existing model, can be wired in to your home’s external power supply. The Blink Wired Floodlight Camera offers a beefy 2600-lumen LED light, a 1080p live view and two-way audio,…
Amazon has announced its first Kindle eReader that comes with its own stylus. The Kindle Scribe is much like a reMarkable in that you can write on its screen. It has a 10.2-inch glare-free E Ink display with a 300ppi – the same resolution as the new entry-level Kindle or the Paperwhite. The touchscreen also…
Amazon has announced Halo Rise – a sleep tracking device that sits on your bedside table and tracks the sleep stages of the person closest to it without them having to physically wear anything. Halo Rise is designed to track sleep with no cameras or microphones, by instead using a suite of sensors and monitoring…
Amazon has announced the next generation of Echo Dot and Echo Dot with Clock, claiming to deliver better audio. While the speakers look the same, using the spherical design that launched with the Echo Dot 4-gen, there’s been a number of changes to make these compact speakers the best Echo Dots we’ve seen so far….
Previous reports have suggested that Google will match pricing of the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro to last year’s Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. According to Amazon, that is indeed the situation we face – which is good! An Amazon listing for the Pixel 7 was spotted and then posted to Twitter a…