Amazon Alexa, known simply as Alexa, is a virtual assistant AI developed by Amazon, first used in the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Echo Dot smart speakers developed by Amazon Lab126. It is capable of voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, and providing weather, traffic, sports, and other real-time information, such as news. Alexa controls several smart devices using itself as a home automation system.
Amazon added an LED clock to its third-gen smart speaker to create the Echo Dot with Clock, and it's our favorite speaker for the price. While there are a lot of Alexa devices to choose from, the Echo Dot with Clock leads with its impressive performance, small footprint and sheer practicality. Read the Amazon Echo Dot with Clock review.
Although it has a $500 price tag, the two-pack Arlo Pro 3 is a great security camera featuring local storage and high-quality 2K streaming. Between its fast alerts and broad suite of features, such as a built-in siren, color night vision and 12x zoom, the Arlo Pro 3 is our favorite high-end smart cam.
You can also view your camera stream on Echo smart displays, although Arlo's previous 7-day free event-based cloud storage option is no longer available, so you'll need to sign up for its monthly plans to store footage on the cloud.
Ring's $199 Peephole Cam is a unique product for the Amazon-owned company. Rather than mounting to a doorframe or somewhere else to the side of your door, the Peephole Cam replaces a traditional peephole. That means this product is perfect for folks living in apartments who want a smart doorbell, but don't want to deal with a hardwired device -- or otherwise messing up a doorframe for the installation. None of Ring's main competitors offer this sort of seamless solution for apartment-dwellers, making this doorbell particularly innovative alongside the other devices available today.
Not only that, but the Peephole Cam has the easiest installation of any doorbell I've tested to date..
The Ecobee SmartThermostat is a $249 connected thermostat. This model replaces the Ecobee4 smart thermostat, but has a lot of the same great features.
Control your SmartThermostat via the Ecobee app and use Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri voice commands to adjust the temp of your smart thermostat. That means you don't need a separate Echo device -- just connect your thermostat, enable the speaker and start asking Alexa questions.
The Amazon Echo Show 8 is Amazon's latest smart display. The Echo Show 8 has a built-in Alexa speaker. And, since it's a smart display, it also offers advanced compatibility with Alexa-enabled security cameras.
Ask Alexa to «answer the front door» when someone rings your Ring Peephole Cam and you can see the live feed on your Show 8 -- and actually talk to the person, straight from the smart display.
At the time of writing this article, Amazon is 1 trillion USD company,one of among top 3 of the world. E-commerce giant continues to envolve and we may expect lot more
