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Old 09-29-2017, 05:09 AM   #16
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Always connected, always on, always listening, distributed processing.
Coupled with autonomous machines in Amazon warehouses.

Did any of you even watch terminator
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Old 09-29-2017, 05:21 AM   #17
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Always connected, always on, always listening, distributed processing.
Coupled with autonomous machines in Amazon warehouses.

Did any of you even watch terminator
My Echo always wears the red ring of silence
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Always connected, always on, always listening, distributed processing.
Coupled with autonomous machines in Amazon warehouses.

Did any of you even watch terminator
In an unrelated press briefing, Amazon announces that Alexa will be changing her name to Skynet. Harlan Ellison still attempts to sue.
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Old 09-29-2017, 10:18 AM   #19
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My Echo always wears the red ring of silence
Doesn't that make it, what we in the tech industry call, a brick
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Old 09-29-2017, 10:35 AM   #20
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Doesn't that make it, what we in the tech industry call, a brick
I use my Dash Wand to request books and music

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I use my Dash Wand to request books and music

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Yes, my wife mentioned that to me and "Voila!" we have one. Haven't used it yet as far as I know, but I can see the future already:

"A dash here, and a dash there and an echo (of course) everywhere!"
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Old 10-02-2017, 11:51 AM   #22
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I don't quite understand what the new part is of the Echo. Looks to be just a decoration choice vs. added utility. I DO like the idea of the one new gadget - where you can tell the echo to dial someone using a land line. I've suggested it to my sister for my BIL (who is legally blind). $35 is pretty reasonable for something that I'm sure would make things easier for my BIL when my sister isn't available.
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I don't quite understand what the new part is of the Echo. Looks to be just a decoration choice vs. added utility.
Amazon improved the internal speakers and introduced better voice technology so Alexa can have better wake-word accuracy and better hear what you are asking.

Below is an article that points out these two improvement in more detail.

https://www.androidcentral.com/amazo...dio-new-design
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Old 10-02-2017, 01:03 PM   #24
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If you have a toddler to entertain, these are the best things since sliced bread. You would not believe how many versions of "THE WHEELS ON THE BUS GO ROUND AND ROUND" exist and Alexa has all of them. And jokes. As she patiently sings happy birthday, on demand, endlessly
And 50+ CDs of rockabye baby does Metallica, guns and roses, ... as soothing lullabies. Jay Z Is much improved
https://www.rockabyebabymusic.com

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Old 10-04-2017, 01:52 AM   #25
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I really want the Echo Connect. I live alone, except for my cat, and falls are a worry. It would be great to be able to call for help if I couldn't get up. Actually months ago I sent a request for that function on Echo and Amazon emailed back that they were working on it.
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i wonder if the existing echo has a skill that could help with that e.g. send a preset message
a quick google offers up various you tube videos on how to send an email with alexa....
see here & scroll to sending an SMS with your voice...
seems you start with a skill called if this then that.... IFTT
its a bit of a hack, but apparently works. you add something like " help, Ive fallen" to your alexa to-do or shopping list then use the alexa skill to send that to who you have set up, on your voice command. & that can be the only thing on the list

https://ifttt.com/applets/270312p-se...cho-to-do-hack

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I really want the Echo Connect. I live alone, except for my cat, and falls are a worry. It would be great to be able to call for help if I couldn't get up. Actually months ago I sent a request for that function on Echo and Amazon emailed back that they were working on it.
A number of people in the retirement home where I live have a device they wear around their neck with a button on it they can press if they need help. If they press it an ambulance comes. A couple of people have used it that I'm aware of, and probably others have as well. It's free, provided by Medicare, or maybe Social Security, I don't know which.

I have a free cell phone that's from the same source although I don't really remember the source.

I think the name of the emergency system is Lifeline or something like that. Google should find it for you.

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A number of people in the retirement home where I live have a device they wear around their neck with a button on it they can press if they need help. If they press it an ambulance comes... I think the name of the emergency system is Lifeline or something like that. Google should find it for you.

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Sounds like LifeAlert, they of the 'I've fallen, and I can't get up!' commercials.
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