Amazon Echo

Amazon has come up with a new product that really does not have any current equivalent from other tech companies - the Amazon Echo. Amazon Echo is a voice activated, cloud-connected speaking for your living room. With 7 microphones embedded in the top of its 9.25 inch, tower-like design, it promises to hear you from anywhere in the room. Ask it to stream music, to set an alarm or any information and it will respond with what you want.

Features

The cylindrical device has room filling sound,and seven microphones on top which use beam forming technology to pinpoint your voice and ensure it can hear you no matter where you're speaking from in a room - so you really don't have to shout at it. To wake it up, you'll address it as "Alexa", the system's activation word. However, Amazon's plans on adding additional activation words. It also filters out all background noises including the music to hear your commands and processes it via Amazon's cloud-based web servers, which means that it will get better at identifying requests and responding to commands over time.

 It has a 360-degree firing speaker, and it works with both Bluetooth from your device, bringing in services like Spotify and Pandora into play, as well as built-in support for playback of music from Amazon Music Library, Prime Music, TuneIn and iHeartRadio. You can also get news and weather information from local radio, NPR, ESPN via TuneIn, and other sources. It'll answer queries and provide basic information from Wikipedia, and even convert units on the fly.

Amazon's shipping a dedicated Echo app to go with the speaker, which runs on Fire OS and Android, and a web-based app for iOS via Safari. You can use this app to set up your service and check information you input via the speaker, like monitoring your alarms, checking reminders and shopping lists you create.

Pricing

Amazon's Echo is available at an introductory cost of $199. But if you're an Amazon Prime members  you can buy it for $99, for a limited time. If you want to buy it then the you need to request an invitation from Amazon to be ordered.

This product is fairly unique among the major tech company products. The Echo is also intriguing and will likely gain popularity. If this thing gets a wider connectivity to the growing category of smart devices like Philips Hue connected Bulbs and Nest's learning thermostat, then you could see it shifting to become a whole-home smart hub.

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