Amazon To Sell Limited-Edition Alexa-Equipped Glasses, Ring (bloomberg.com) 11
Amazon.com unveiled a pair of wearable gadgets equipped with the Alexa digital assistant: glasses and a ring. From a report: The company indicated that the devices aren't meant to be mass-market consumer products and were inventions "left on the cutting-room floor," according to Dave Limp, head of Amazon's devices and services business. The smart glasses look like a normal pair of spectacles and support prescription lenses -- but include microphones for Alexa access. They aren't augmented-reality glasses and lack displays and cameras. At its annual new-device event in Seattle on Wednesday, Amazon also showed off the Echo Loop, a titanium ring with Alexa microphones. Both of the products will be sold by invitation only, in limited quantities, Amazon said. The glasses will cost $180 and the ring will be priced at $130.
Re: Glasses... (Score:1)
If these glasses had a simple HUD I'd be all over that shit.
Ben Carson wants to have a word with you.
Re: (Score:1)
You can buy small round displays quite cheaply if you want to lose your mind tinkering with such things. Have fun with the nonstandard interfaces, gargantuan ribbon cables, focal problems, and modifying them to not have a backing.
A ring with a MIC?! (Score:2)
(why yes I wear an apple watch - what's your point?!)
I have questions (Score:2)
Coming soon! (Score:2)
Limited Edition Tech? (Score:2)
What is point there? Limited edition so it is easier to forget those lo^H^Husers and their need for support, updates, repairs, whatever? Even easier than it is today to get forgotten by progress -- while paying premium?
Thanks, but no thanks.
This should be fun... (Score:1)
Alexa glasses, lol... Considering the spastic discombobulation of the hipper-than-thou mob when Google tried to introduce smart glasses, I'll have to remember to stock up on popcorn once these hit the market.
One Ring To Rule Them All (Score:2)
One Ring to Prime them,
One Ring to monitor all,
and in the Cloud to bind them.
candy coated popcorn peanuts and a prize (Score:2)