iLander
Ideal_Rock
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- May 23, 2010
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Had to get one for DH's birthday since he HAS to have things that plug in.
It's voice recognition is much better than Siri, and we mostly use it for music. It's name is Alexa, and it's hooked to hundreds of free Amazon prime music playlists. Just say "Alexa, play music," and after a while it knows what songs you like. Ahhh, the joys of data-mining.
We also use it to buy stuff from Amazon instantly. A little too easily, actually. Two cases of dog food appeared at our door on Monday, after we told it to buy dog food. It went through our history and sent the same dog food after we confirmed.
We also have a few of the light switches that DH used to have hooked to his iPhone, now we just talk to turn them on or off. Because it's soooo difficult to walk the few feet to hit the switch.
It does have a cool Star Trekky quality to it. Oddly, I really like it. Plus it's the only "person" that actually LISTENS to me.
It's voice recognition is much better than Siri, and we mostly use it for music. It's name is Alexa, and it's hooked to hundreds of free Amazon prime music playlists. Just say "Alexa, play music," and after a while it knows what songs you like. Ahhh, the joys of data-mining.
We also use it to buy stuff from Amazon instantly. A little too easily, actually. Two cases of dog food appeared at our door on Monday, after we told it to buy dog food. It went through our history and sent the same dog food after we confirmed.
We also have a few of the light switches that DH used to have hooked to his iPhone, now we just talk to turn them on or off. Because it's soooo difficult to walk the few feet to hit the switch.
It does have a cool Star Trekky quality to it. Oddly, I really like it. Plus it's the only "person" that actually LISTENS to me.