A few months after introducing the Echo Show 5, Amazon has added another model to its Echo Show line of smart displays. The Amazon Echo Show 8 features an 8 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel touchscreen display, 10 watt stereo speakers, and a 1MP front-facing camera (with a shutter that covers it when it’s not in […]
Amazon adds wearables to its Echo lineup (Echo Buds, Echo Frames, and Echo Loop)
Amazon unveiled 8 new Echo products today, including updates to its smart speaker and smart display lineup. But the company is also entering new territory with a line of wearable Echo devices that let you interact with the company’s Alexa voice service on the go. Amazon’s Echo Buds are $130 wireless, noise-cancelling earbuds with Alexa […]
Amazon’s new Fire TV Cube supports Dolby Vision HDR, speedier voice controls
Amazon is launching a bunch of new and updated Fire TV products this fall, led by a 2nd-gen Fire TV Cube media streamer with support for hands-free Alexa. Fun fact: the original Fire TV Cube may have sold for more than twice the price of an Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K, but it actually had […]
Amazon’s $90 Echo Show 5 is a smaller, cheaper smart display
Amazon’s 3rd-gen Echo Show smart display is called the Amazon Echo Show 5… which sort of makes sense because the name refers to the screen size rather than the generation. Rather than replacing the 2nd-gen Echo Show, the new model will be sold alongside it as a smaller, less expensive option. The Echo Show 5 […]
Report: Amazon is developing Alexa-enabled wireless earbuds
Amazon’s first attempt to launch a smartphone wasn’t exactly a huge success, but the company took an early lead in the voice assistant space with its surprisingly popular Alexa-enabled line of devices including smart speakers, smart displays, and third-party devices including headphones and speakers. Now Bloomberg reports Amazon is hoping to launch a new Alexa […]
Lilbits 349: The 5G smartphones are coming
Mobile World Congress is a little more than a week away, and we’ll likely see new phones from companies including Samsung, Huawei, HMD (Nokia), and others, as well as other devices (Microsoft, for example, is expected to introduce its next-gen HoloLens mixed reality headset). It’s likely that we’ll also hear a lot about 5G. Next-gen […]
Lilbits 346: You can’t always judge a laptop by its specs
When I picked up my latest laptop I opted for a model with an Intel Core i5-8250U processor after realizing that I’d have to spend several hundred dollars more to get a version with a Core i7-8550U chip… and most benchmarks I’ve seen suggest that the Core i7 chip is only a little faster. But depending […]
Project Alias hacks your smart speaker so it’s only listening when you want
There’s something kind of magical about saying “Alexa” or “OK Google” to get a weather forecast, recipe, navigation directions, or to play music or control your smart home appliances. There’s also something a little creepy about it since you need to have an always-listening, internet-connected speaker in your house to do those things. Sure, Google […]
ECS is positioning its tiny Liva computers as AI machines (as well as commercial or entertainment PCs)
ECS is showing off its latest small form-factor computers at CES this week. That includes updates to existing models with newer, faster processors as well as a a few models with brand new features — including a mini PC with support for Amazon’s Alexa voice service and another that uses a camera and Intel’s Movidius […]
Lenovo’s new 2-in-1 Android tablets are also Alexa speakers (rather than laptops)
Typically when we talk about 2-in-1 tablets, we mean tablets that can also be used as notebooks. Lenovo’s going in a different direction with a line of “Smart Tab” devices that you can use as a standalone android tablet or put in a docking station to use as an Amazon Alexa-enabled smart display. The Lenovo […]
Asus Lyra Voice is a mesh WiFi router and an Alexa smart speaker
Over the past few years I’ve seen a growing number of smart speakers and mesh networking gear at the Consumer Electronics Show. So it’s not surprising at all that somebody decided to combine both of those technologies into a single product. The Asus Lyra Voice is a tri-band WiFi router that’s also a wireless speaker with […]
Archos reveals a pair of Alexa smart displays ahead of CES
Like dozens of other manufacturers, Archos is packing its bags and heading to Las Vegas for CES 2019. The company will have plenty of new gear on display, some of which they’re obviously very excited about. So excited, in fact, that they couldn’t wait for CES to show it off. Archos is expanding their lineup […]
Now you can use Alexa on any Windows 10 PC
This year Amazon started partnering with PC makers to ship select computers with an Alexa voice assistant app pre-installed, letting you talk to your computer to get answers to questions, set reminders, control music playback, or interact with smart home gear among other things. Now you can do most of those things on any Windows […]
Amazon launches Echo Wall Clock, Echo Auto, Alexa-enabled microwave, and other voice-enabled gadgets
In case you missed the memo, Amazon launched a lot of new Alexa-enabled devices today. In addition to new Echo Dot, Echo Plus, Echo Show, Echo Input, and Echo Sub, and Echo Link devices, the company also introduced a bunch of accessories that let you interact with Alexa in new ways and new places. For example, […]
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