Gadgetory

Amazon announced a boatload of new devices today including this guy this is the Amazon echo spa it's a hundred and twenty nine dollars this holiday season what it basically is is the Amazon echo dot and the Amazon echo show with that touch screen kind of smashed together into a new product that's sort of like a smart alarm clock for your bedside you can ask Alexa to play music access any of her skills set timers have a video flash briefing with clips from the news and from your favorite shows all that will show up here on this device whenever you want to ask for it it also has bluetooth and lineout compatibility with your existing speakers so if you wanted to hook it up to your existing speaker setup or a Bluetooth speaker across the room you can do that it does have a speaker of its own though it two watts which should be more than enough for a casual listening at your bedside like the echo show it's got this camera up at the top so you can actually use this to make video calls or to drop in on somebody you can set up drop-in and Amazon's Alexa app so that if you want to check in on an elderly relative or drop in on the kids room see what's going on you can do that you also get a variety of different clock faces to choose from really customize this thing and make it the bedside Alexa buddy of your choice om oh I think this is a pretty smart idea for Amazon a lot of people already use the echo dot as sort of a bedside alarm clock this doubles down on that adds the actual visual element of the clock face and also lets you do a lot of the things that the echo show can do at a lower price point of one hundred and twenty nine dollars the echo spot will be out for the holidays we'll be sure to test it out and let you know all about it