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this front looking guy dances responds to your voice commands through Alexa and even teaches you yoga this is the $800 OOP tech links let's check it out link says Amazon's assistant Alexa built-in meaning you can use it to control your smart home you can add entries to your calendar you can search the web all with a voice command so you can also activate links with a tap on the head tell me a joke did you hear about the sick chimney it had bad who just like the original echo this thing sense of humor is terrible and it'll make some bad gestures along with the jokes for some reason links isn't quite as good at the echo it hearing you links is good at hearing you if you're talking at it from the front but if I come back here Alexa Alexa there you go I had to speak up a little bit but at a normal speaking volume it's not that great at hearing it if I'm talking from back here in addition to its Alexa capabilities links has other uses in the smart home you can actually turn on surveillance mode which will make it act as a smart home security camera surveillance camera so it'll use a passive infrared sensor in its chest to detect motion and if it does it'll send you a push alert and record a clip of what happens so links has a couple of other cool robot tricks it can dance you can also control it remotely with avatar mode you can move it around with these joysticks here and even ask it to do some fun gestures right here oh it's giving me a hug 5 so let's most unique feature is that it can actually teach you yoga and lead you on an exercise routine so we're gonna give that a try I'm gonna beginner at yoga so we'll see if links can actually show me a thing or two Alexa asked links to teach me yoga if you spread your legs shoulder-width apart oh my god excuses spot squat down as far as possible slowly return to starting position inhale it's just a nothing raise your hand straight over your head it's describing the last one whoa how are you standing it doesn't seem to be doing that ready I'm ready you don't appear to be ready okay so obviously it's not that helpful as a yogi if you don't know what to do it doesn't offer any extra instructions I'm pretty sure a lot of those poses aren't actual yoga poses it's even less helpful as an exercise instructor watch this Alexa asked links to teach me exercise welcome two weeks please put me on a flat surface first your next exercise is needs push-ups if you aren't ready stay ready or you can say help to get help ready see this I'm supposed to be doing this it's not doing it along with me I'm not feeling the karate links how am I supposed to be motivated to work when you don't work along with me and that's how it does it with all these routines so there's no actual variety here there's no help it has brief explanations just like with yoga but I don't know I don't find a ticking time or all that useful so links is unique it has lots of tricks it's really fun to play with should you spend $800 on it no no you shouldn't all of its smart home functionality is really easy to replicate with other cheaper devices that do each of its functions better and its extra functions like teaching you yoga teaching exercise let's just put it this way it's not a very good teacher so that adds up to making links nothing more than a novelty toy a fun novelty toy but definitely not a toy you should invest in and at $800 it needs to be a little bit more than it is