smart speakers
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Amazon Is Reportedly Developing a Wall-Mounted Echo to Control Your Smart Home
If you’ve ever wished your Echo device was a control panel, well, good news: Amazon’s Lab126 hardware division is purportedly designing a wall-mounted Echo that can control your smart home and media, as well as host video chats.
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The HomePod Mini Is a Perfect Smart Home Overlord
The HomePod Mini is $90 more than the Echo Dot, $120 more than the Nest Mini, and the exact same price as the larger Nest Audio. Its voice assistant, Siri, is not nearly as smart as its rivals. Its audio quality is only so remarkable. It is shaped like a Magic 8 Ball, which is…
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The New Amazon Echo Is Round (Also It Sounds Good)
It’s round. That’s the story, folks.
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A Pandemic-Induced Bankruptcy Killed the HAL-9000 Smart Speaker
If you need another reminder that it’s an especially risky time to back crowdfunded products on sites like Indiegogo and Kickstarter, Master Replicas Group, who introduced a smart speaker version of the HAL 9000 computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey, is shutting down, and unless a minor miracle occurs (space babies?) backers probably won’t be…