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Amazon Alexa is Coming To Headphones, Smart Watches, Bathrooms and More (cnbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.

An anonymous reader shares a CNBC report: Amazon announced new tools on Friday that will allow gadget-makers to include the smart voice assistant in a whole array of new products. Alexa is Amazon's smart voice assistant and it has slowly made its way from the Amazon Echo into third-party speakers, refrigerators and, soon, even microwaves. Now, with Amazon's Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit, device makers will be able to build Alexa into headphones, smart watches, fitness trackers and more. That means you may soon be able to look down at your wrist and ask Alexa the weather, or to remind you to pick up eggs at the grocery store. CNET reports Kohler, a company that makes plumbing products, wants to bring Alexa to your bathroom as well.

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  1. I don't Fucking Think So by nagora · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "What time is it?"

    "Isn't it time you booked a new holiday with Kuoni?"

    Piss off, Amazon, and stick Alexa up your arse while you're at it.

    --
    "Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
  2. Nope! by KavyBoy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's hard to put into words how much I do not want this.

  3. And nobody cares ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    So, right now we're in this annoying phase of everyone going ape-shit over the connected world. I hope we get over it soon.

    These things provide very little actual functionality or things people actually need. And the degree to which you give up all of you privacy for one of these is appalling.

    It's like the whole world have become 13 year old boys telling us how awesome this pointless new technology is and how we all need it.

    I'm sorry, but it's none of Amazon's business when I take a shit. I have no interest in a "digital assistant", especially one which mostly exists to collect my information, post me ads, and drive me to buy shit from some mega-corp.

    I have no idea why the world has gone loopy over this crap, or why the world needs to be connected, plugged in, cross referenced, and have every fucking aspect of our lives fed to big goddamned fucking data.

    I will never own, or allow to be brought into my home, shit like this.

    So, no, don't want one, Jeff Bezos and Amazon can suck my dick, and all of these companies who think the fucking world needs to be interconnected can fuck the hell off.

    The incessant mewling about these digital assistants is annoying. When will people realize they're losing more than they're gaining with this shit.