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Of “Amazon Echo”? This Is Amazing. I Think….
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*OK, now either this is the coolest thing ever, or really creepy. :) I
really don't know how to describe it. It's like having a personal assistant
in the house kinda. Here is a short description from
the www.theguardian.com/
<http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/nov/09/amazon-echo-smart-tv-watching-listening-surveillance>
The best is to watch the little U-Tube video. After the first vid is a
second video which is a Parody of the real one. It's called "Amazon Echo
(Early Beta Version) Let me know if you think this is cool or creepy.
~Steve~*
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Alex Hern <http://www.theguardian.com/profile/alex-hern> Sunday 9
November 201411.30 EST
Amazon’s Echo defies easy description. Actually, that’s not quite true: the
easy way to describe it is “creepy as hell”. What’s trickier is explaining
what it is.
[image: "Can you hear me now"?]
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"Can you hear me now"?
The Echo <http://www.amazon.com/oc/echo> *(below) *is a 20cm-tall black
cylinder, that sits in your home and listens to everything you do. You will
want it to do this, if Amazon’s marketing is to be believed, because it
will be able to answer questions like, “who is Abraham Lincoln?” and
perform simple tasks such as adding ice cream to your shopping or playing a
Taylor Swift track. (You have to say the “wake word”, “Alexa”, before it
will act on what it hears).
The device is like a hyped-up Siri or Google Now for your whole house. And
it does have some impressive technology behind it, packing two speakers and
seven microphones into its small case. But still, anyone who is comfortable
with the idea of an always-on, Wifi-enabled obelisk listening to everything
they say will probably be the first to die in the inevitable cyberwar of
the 22nd century.
And that’s before we get to the fact that one of Amazon’s selling points
for the device is that it’s “always getting smarter”. (Isn’t this how
Terminator starts?)
But don’t think that just because you keep Echo out of your home that
you’re safe. The same always-listening technology is already in a number of
high-end mobile phones, from Apple’s iPhones to the latest Android phones
from Google and Motorola (although it needs to be explicitly turned on
before it will work). Even devices which you don’t purchase with the
explicit aim of letting a major technology company track everything you say
are still keeping an eye on you.
*More Here*
<http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/nov/09/amazon-echo-smart-tv-watching-listening-surveillance>
*This is Echo For Real*
Amazon Echo (Early Beta Version)
*This is a spoof. Really funny. :)*
*~Steve~ H/T My Kid*
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