![]() ![]() Add in a camera or NFC and you can tell which stores have sales or get details on who you’re talking to like some kind of friendly White House aide. Top Twitter trends can hit your cranium while you’re driving. Notifications can be read to you in a hushed voice. By slapping in some micro-earbuds – the AirBuds are making more and more sense now – and a smarter interface you can easily go your entire day without having to unlock your phone. Our phones will soon be talking to us more and more. Like most nascent tech there is little impetus for the non-techie to buy or use aural interfaces outright but once they see how it works they’re hooked. When I ordered one for them for Christmas my sister took it so I had to buy them another one. My parents fell in love with our Echo after asked it to play Roy Orbison for my Dad and my Mom asked it whether or not we’d need an umbrella. This is a big enough number to make the Echo a fun addition to holiday festivities. And Alexa and her ilk are only going to get more and more powerful.Īnalysts estimate that Amazon has sold six million Alexa-cabable since launch. The world thought it wanted smart watches but what it really wants is to be heard. “Soon, you’ll speak your wants into the air - anywhere - and a woman’s warm voice with a mid-Atlantic accent will talk back to you, ready to fulfill your commands.” “Forget the onerous process of pulling your Pixel or iPhone from your pocket, unlocking it, opening apps, and tapping your desires onto a screen (Ugh!),” wrote Jessi Hempel on Backchannel. Then we see the news that hotels are planning on adding Alexa to hotel rooms, police are requesting Amazon Echo data in a murder case, and pundits are calling for voice to be the Next Big Thing. In short, she’s our own special helper monkey. She sets timers for us and reminds us to buy milk. She tells us which day it is and what the weather will be. We ask her how to spell words and do basic math. The kids tell Alexa to turn on the lights and start Netflix. Alexa – and, to a degree, Siri and Google’s OK Google solution – have become indispensable additions to our home. ![]() They say that news is what happens to a writer on his way to the bathroom and I’ve recently discovered something fascinating. ![]()
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