Gadgetory

well the rumors are true Amazon made a microwave specifically the amazonbasics microwave it's a 60 dollar 700 watt microwave which Amazon tells us is the best-selling size on amazon.com and it's gonna be one that you can connect with Alexa now it doesn't have a LexA actually built-in there's no speaker inside of this microwave so you'll need a dedicated Alexa device like the echo or echo dot or echo show in your kitchen in order to talk to the microwave and tell it to cook things you can say cook one potato and they'll automatically put the correct time for a potato you can say cook popcorn and we'll do the same thing it also has dash replenishment built in so if you run out of popcorn it can order more now the thing that really makes this microwave tick is the Alexa connect kit chipset it's a new chip that developers can use to smarten up existing appliances you can just put this chip into your microwave or whatever appliance or device you have and give Wi-Fi connectivity Bluetooth connectivity all of that within Amazon's protocols and encrypted and Amazon standards so the chipsets really just an affordable way to get more devices onboard the Alexa platform in this microwave is sort of a showcase or that it's kind of proving the point that you can take a ordinary old appliance add this chipset in and make it an Alexa enabled appliance with a lot of Appeal well see if that appeal translates the sales if people buy this microwave and mask maybe we'll see a flood of new Alexa enabled appliances with this chipset inside time will tell once the microwave starts shipping to customers at this November we'll get one into the scene that smart home test it out and let you know how it cooks up