Gadgetory

amazon is everywhere at this year's CES my company is not even an official exhibitor they're here through Alexa their popular voice controlled personal assistant that first had its home in the Amazon echo speaker seriously though Alexa is everywhere this year but just because it's everywhere doesn't mean it works well everywhere so Alexa is showing up in everything from copycat speakers to smart lights to connected fridges some of these are direct integrations which means that Alexa's voice capabilities are built directly into that piece of hardware and some of them still require some type of echo speaker in order for them to work put it this way you can now look at your smart lights and order a pizza so that's all fine and well inside of the home but what's more interesting is Alexa outside of the home where you don't have a stable Wi-Fi connection where there's a lot of ambient noise these $400 on vocal headphones are supposedly the first headphones with Alexa built directly into them Phil directly in probably sounds like it's just like walking around the neck Oh strap your head but it's not exactly like that you still need a cell connection and it's not like you can just walk around shouting Alexa into your headphones you actually need to press a physical button to get Alexa started Alexa is showing up in other wearables as well like this Martian SmartWatch but again you have to press a physical button not once but twice in order to get your question through to Alexa and even then you're probably not going to hear it very well for this tiny speaker that's built into the side of the watch you're going to have to open the M voice app which is Marcia's app in order to see the response there are other things to consider too like the fact that alexis still isn't officially available outside of the US and she's still not great at accents Alexa what is the nutritional value of avocados sorry I didn't understand the question but there's no doubt that the person who stole the show this year is not even a person it's an artificially intelligent virtual assistant who we gave a household name faster than you could say hey Siri or okay Google even Amazon seemed surprised by this the company told me they were expecting around 35 to 40 Amazon integrations with products here at the show and it turns out there are a lot more than that hey Alexa can I go home now you can now look at your smart lights and order a pizza or something yeah