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Fossil Gen 6 Adds Amazon Alexa as Assistant Choice

Kellen March 15, 2022 4

The Fossil Gen 6 launched last year with a promise to offer choice in assistants, starting first with Google Assistant and later adding Amazon Alexa. Today, Fossil has announced that Amazon Alexa is now available to their latest smartwatch. Fossil tells us...

Verizon’s Number Share Lets Alexa Become Your New Home Phone

Kellen November 16, 2021 3

Have you always dreamed of being able to use Amazon's Alexa to make calls for you, calls that would show up on the other end as coming from your Verizon number? Or maybe another dream included receiving calls to your personal Verizon number through an Echo...

Sharp’s Smart Microwave has Alexa Voice Commands, Orville Redenbacher’s ‘Certified’ Popcorn Preset

Tim December 9, 2020 11

Have you ever seen a product and just thought, "Damn, I gotta have that!" I get that feeling about smart microwaves. I use my dumb microwave all the time for heating up stuff, and I gotta tell you, it'd be nice to tell my microwave how long I want it to turn...

You Can Now Use Samuel L. Jackson’s Voice for Alexa, But It Ain’t Free

Tim December 12, 2019

One of our planet's most recognizable voices is now available for Amazon's Alexa. Yup, I'm talking about the Jedi Master with the purple lightsaber, Samuel L. Jackson. While this isn't Google Assistant, it's still pretty cool. Amazon is selling access to the...

Motorola AX Home Phone Has Built-In Alexa, Costs $99

Tim June 10, 2019

If you need to upgrade all of the dumb things in your house to smart things, the home phone seems like a good place to start. Typically, home phones take up valuable counter space, and if all they're doing is connecting you to the outside world via a telephone...

Amazon Echo Show 5 Up for Pre-Order, $89 for a 5.5″ Alexa-Powered Smart Display

Tim May 29, 2019

Amazon announced a compact version of the Echo Show today, and instead of calling it what I imagine was the obvious choice, which would have been Echo Show Mini, they decided to call it the Echo Show 5. Echo Show 5 features a 5.5" HD display, front-facing...

DEAL: Amazon’s Echo Input, Brings Alexa to Most Speakers, is $20 Right Now ($15 Off)

Kellen January 14, 2019

With Chromecast Audio on the way out, your next best bet for turning your old and dumb speaker into a smarter tune box is Amazon's Echo Input. Introduced back in September, the Echo Input in either black or white has been discounted to $19.99 from $34.99. What...

Lenovo’s New Alexa Powered Smart Tab is Where Google Should Take Smart Displays

Kellen January 9, 2019

After last year's initial debut of smart displays at CES 2018, it shouldn't surprise anyone to see new models show up for CES 2019. Lenovo gave us that cute little clock version and KitchenAid introduced the ultimate kitchen version. But it's another Lenovo...