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Alexa's skills: Useful, fun or downright dumb?

2016-02-15
if you navigate to the skills section of the Alexa app you'll find a lot of useful tricks and integrations with smart home gadgets including a whole lot of novelties that range from fun and interesting to downright stupid for instance if I say Alexa open catbacks here's your cat fact a cat's normal pulse is 140 to 240 beats per minute here are a couple of other neat skills that Amazon echo has to offer Alexa open Domino's welcome to Domino's would you like to place your easy order place your recent order or track your order never mind echo can even host your next trivia night Alexa play jeopardy the first category is what kind of animal are you if you want to hear a dumb joke Amazon echoes happy to help Alexa tell me a joke where do you take a sick boat to the dock now like I said a lot of this is admittedly pretty stupid but it does kind of highlight echoes broad applicability to a lot of different people the fun novelty factor the kid friendliness all that works in this products favor
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