Amazon Echo - Gadget For Smart Home

Amazon unveiled the Echo, a strange robot speaker that works something like Siri in a can. You can tell it to play music, set alarms, look up answers to questions, and add things to your shopping list just by talking. Amazon Echo represents is the first step towards a type of computer that one day will be every bit as common in people's homes as toasters: the ambient computer, a bit of Star Trek technology that is much more practical, realistic, and closer to becoming a reality than the much vaunted universal communicator.

