Today has been a big day for home automation, with Nest updating its iOS app with Apple Watch support and Amazon's Echo gaining the ability to interact with August Smart Locks.
Amazon seems keen to make sure it continues to rule the home assistant market, because it has made available an online simulator to help prospective customers experience what it is like to use the Alexa-powered device within their homes.
A new report claims that Apple's rumored foray into wireless voice command Amazon Echo-like device will not include a new type of hardware, but rather a refreshed Apple TV with full-fledged Siri built right in.
Roger app allows you to control your Amazon Echo and Alexa remotely from your iPhone or Android from anywhere in the world for free.
If you are lucky enough to own one of Amazon's fabulous and extremely popular Echo, Echo Dot or the Tap hardware, then you're about to benefit from even more added functionality thanks to a new and improved Amazon Alexa experience. Starting today, Amazon has upgraded its Alexa virtual assistant with some new abilities that will allow users to utilize the new found travel expertise of the assistant to be more efficient in the booking of all things related to travel. Alexa's new functionality, which waterfalls down to a variety of Amazon hardware including the Fire TV, is all thanks to an integration partnership with travel search engine KAYAK.
If you ever wanted to grab the Amazon Echo or Amazon Tap, the Alexa-enabled smart-speakers are currently on a rare one-day sale which is valid for today only. The sale is live right now, so grab it while stocks last.
Amazon has officially unveiled two additional consumer tech devices that not only offer excellent functionality to the technology loving crowd, but instantly grow the Alexa-enabled product count as well. The online retailing behemoth has taken the opportunity to announce the Amazon Tap and Amazon Echo Dot, two new Alexa-powered devices that should have a huge appeal to the home automation crowd. The two devices should also appeal to the technologically au fait who love controlling gadgets through audible commands, in this particular case, via Alexa.
Here's a video showing 50 voice commands that you can ask Amazon Echo's Alexa. Alexa, for those that may not know, is essentially the Echo's Siri, and allows the hardware to act on audible user commands.
Software developer MOSAIC has been working on a way for Tesla drivers to use Amazon's Echo device to interact with their cars. The result is a video that shows a Tesla Model S responding to voice commands offered up by the Echo's Alexa assistant.
The Amazon Echo has received a new feature that allows Alexa to read Kindle books the same way it handles things such as Wikipedia entries and news articles.
