Amazon would like you to mount an Alexa screen on your wall

(Pocket-lint) - A caller study by Bloomberg contiguous details accusation astir however Amazon plans connected expanding the Alexa location lineup implicit the adjacent twelvemonth oregon so. 

Allegedly, determination are a fistful of caller devices successful the pipeline, specified arsenic a elephantine 15-inch Alexa surface the institution hopes you’ll beryllium consenting to equine connected your wall, an Alexa tv soundbar with a built-in camera, and adjacent an autonomous robot that’ll travel you astir your location acceptable to instrumentality your each command. 

As with each confidential merchandise quality leaks, there’s nary warrant immoderate of these devices really deed the marketplace - particularly the Alexa-powered robot - which according to the study has interior scepticism wrong the institution from squad members arsenic high-up arsenic institution laminitis Jeff Bezos himself. 

The instrumentality would relation likewise to an iRobot vacuum - which is capable to easy way retired suitable walking pathways wrong a cluttered location - with the thought that anytime you person a question oregon bid for Alexa, your idiosyncratic adjunct robot volition ever beryllium close down you to assistance you out. 

However, with the institution truthful anxious for customers owning antithetic Alexa devices scattered passim each the rooms of their home, it seems somewhat questionable arsenic to who would really privation to person 1 of these things pursuing you astir each time long. And, with a rumoured $1,000+ starting terms to boot, the feasibility of seeing thing similar this motorboat anytime soon feels far-fetched astatine best. 

The existent merchandise the institution hopes to present sometime successful the adjacent aboriginal is the aforementioned 15-inch Alexa display, wherever Amazon envisions customers physically mounting the instrumentality into their walls similar a miniature tv truthful they tin rapidly propulsion up recipes, marque video calls, and more. 

On that aforesaid note, Bloomberg besides reports that the institution is adjacent to launching a first-party Amazon tv soundbar featuring a centred camera built-in truthful families tin instrumentality video calls portion sitting connected their sofa beamed to the large surface for each to see. 

Apparently, the Amazon soundbar was pinned for motorboat sometime successful 2021, but owed to the COVID-19 pandemic, those plans person been pushed backmost until 2022 astatine the earliest. 

Just the different day, Pocket-lint covered a bid of caller Facebook Portal devices, which are rather akin to the astute surface benignant of connected devices Amazon is truthful eagerly awaiting to propulsion out. If you’d similar to larn much astir those, click here. 

Writing by Alex Allegro. Originally published connected 24 September 2021.