Amazon isn’t at CES in any formal capacity, but once again, it seems to be everywhere thanks to Alexa. Since opening up its voice assistant to other companies’ products, we’ve seen it put in all types of gadgets and gain some strange integrations. And at CES this week, the continuation of that is one of the biggest trends we’ve seen. Here are the highlights:
- Westinghouse, Element, and Seiki are all building TVs that include Fire TV software and a remote that includes Alexa voice control.
- LG put Alexa in a refrigerator, which also has a giant 29-inch touchscreen.
- LG also put Alexa into Hub, its smart home robot.
- Lenovo’s Smart Assistant is basically an Echo by a different name.
- Mattel’s Aristotle is sort of like an Echo, but with features designed to help parents care for newborns.
- Bixi is making a portable puck with Alexa in it.
- GE is presenting its LED ring lamp, which is kind of like what would happen if you put a halo on an Echo Dot.
- Omaker made a portable speaker with Alexa.
- Onvocal made these horrible business neckbuds with Alexa.
- This five-device charging dock includes a speaker with Alexa support.
- A dancing robot.
- A prototype alarm clock.
- A “bedside clock speaker,” which I think is sort of like an alarm clock.
- LG made a wide-eyed robot that uses Alexa.
- Ford is putting Alexa in Fusions and F-150s. Yes, cars!
- Volkswagen plans to do the same (with its own cars, not the F-150).
- Inrix is integrating Alexa with its OpenCar platform. More cars!
- Huawei is including an Alexa app by default on its new Mate 9 smartphone.
- Martian put Alexa in its mVoice smartwatch (poor implementation though).
- Alexa is also inside this creepy eyeball camera.
Source: Amazon’s Alexa is everywhere at CES 2017 – The Verge