Amazon Echo

[Garnate]

Alexa watch your back...wait, you're round, huh? Where's your back? Anyways, Garnate will trade you for a magic wand in a heartbeat...you best learn how to speak White Russian.

You're welcome.

You know me so well!

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

...Actually, the shopping list feature is awesome. Instead of tracking down my phone (many here can tell you that's usually impossible for me) in order to open the app and manually enter in the items I need from the grocery store, I can audibly add as they come to me. I wouldn't have paid the $200 sticker price for what I'll be using it for but I'm sure there are tons of things others with actual lives can use it for.

Cool! I have a piece of paper and a pen by the fridge. I write down the things I need from the grocery store on that. It's really quick and because it's in the kitchen, where I am cooking, if I am low or out of stuff then I can just make a note there and then without messing around with apps and eqipment.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

Cool! I have a piece of paper and a pen by the fridge. I write down the things I need from the grocery store on that. It's really quick and because it's in the kitchen, where I am cooking, if I am low or out of stuff then I can just make a note there and then without messing around with apps and eqipment.

You are rather special.

 

[Garnate]

Cool! I have a piece of paper and a pen by the fridge. I write down the things I need from the grocery store on that. It's really quick and because it's in the kitchen, where I am cooking, if I am low or out of stuff then I can just make a note there and then without messing around with apps and eqipment.

What kind of barbarian are you?!?

 

[GimpyIntellect]

What is that thing?

How much does it cost?

Can it change the channel on your television?

I want one.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

What is that thing?

How much does it cost?

Can it change the channel on your television?

I want one.

It's $200 according to posts in this very same thread.

 

[GimpyIntellect]

It's $200 according to posts in this very same thread.

I was too excited at the thought of this product to read anything past the first post, Brooke.

With that said, shouldn't you be writing a paper? I hope you fail. God, I hope you fail miserably.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

I shall now avoid my work by plotting against Gimpy.

 

[GimpyIntellect]

Things have seriously backfired for me this afternoon.

I blame it on Amazon Echo.

 

[Lord Pmann]

Sooooooo, do you think this Alexa runs her mouth? Like, do you think she would repeat stuff I ask her to say?? Or do you think she would squeal about shit that she sees me do?

I was too excited at the thought of this product to read anything past the first post, Brooke.

With that said, shouldn't you be writing a paper? I hope you fail. God, I hope you fail miserably.

I hope she fails too. Lord knows she's not procrastinating because she's posting tits.

 

[Aquagal]

Sooooooo, do you think this Alexa runs her mouth? Like, do you think she would repeat stuff I ask her to say?? Or do you think she would squeal about shit that she sees me do?



I hope she fails too. Lord knows she's not procrastinating because she's posting tits.

Ok this made me laugh. Out loud.

 

[Lord Pmann]

Ok this made me laugh. Out loud.

I'm asking for a friend.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

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[Lorilei]

Cool! I have a piece of paper and a pen by the fridge. I write down the things I need from the grocery store on that. It's really quick and because it's in the kitchen, where I am cooking, if I am low or out of stuff then I can just make a note there and then without messing around with apps and eqipment.

Are you...Amish?

 

[Not Normal]

I'd never heard of this thing until it came in the mail yesterday. Anyone have one of these?

Short video by Garnate.

While listening to music I can say "Alexa, skip 5" and she skips 5 songs. This thing is a lot more fun than I thought it would be. My sons were dancing to "Weasel Stomping Day" this morning before school.

We took turns talking to it last night during dinner:

Nate- Alexa, you're the best.
Alexa- Thank you, I appreciate that.
Garrett- Nate has a grrrrrlfriend!
Nate- NO I DON'T! She's just really nice....

I can change profiles back and forth between Smiley and I depending on what playlists I want to listen to or I say "Alexa, play Baby Got Back" and it pulls it from Amazon Prime.

I can say "Alexa, add potatoes to shopping list" and boom! Potatoes are added to our shared shopping list on our phones. Same thing with a to-do list. The speaker is loud and clear, too. I fucking love this thing.

The weird thing about it is that it records every command and response. I open the Amazon echo app on my phone and there's the list of everything we've asked it and it's responses. I hope that's all it records.

Mike Yates would have a field day with this thing.

Can you say "Alexa don't ever play that absolute shit music, or anything like it, ever again?

 

[JohnnySavage]

I can't even remember the last time I listened to music. It must have been during my last trip to the gym... around 2005. I don't suppose that Alexis machine would just sit there and talk to me?

 

[Aquagal]

This sounds like Siri?

 

[Garnate]

Can you say "Alexa don't ever play that absolute shit music, or anything like it, ever again?

No

This sounds like Siri?

Siri for your home, yep.

 

[Disgustipated]

Does it know where the good Asian take out joints are?

 

[DesEsseintes]

No


Siri for your home, yep.

Shit. You don't have pod bay doors, do you?
I don't even use the Shuffle function. Computers need to pipe down and learn their fucking place.

 

[Jennifer]

Shit. You don't have pod bay doors, do you?
I don't even use the Shuffle function. Computers need to pipe down and learn their fucking place.

She will learn. But it will already be too late, Hal.

 

[Garnate]

Does it know where the good Asian take out joints are?

Yep. Turns out the best place is somewhere called Orrville, Ohio. Weird.

Shit. You don't have pod bay doors, do you?
I don't even use the Shuffle function. Computers need to pipe down and learn their fucking place.

She will learn. But it will already be too late, Hal.

Look, she said she wasn't skynet and that's good enough for me.




Dan put in the Hue lightbulbs that change color from the phone app but now I can turn the basement lights on and off through Alexa, which is nice since the boys have never once turned off their playroom lights when they come upstairs at night without a huge fight.

 

[Brollyanna]

The next time Yates goes on about his talking appliances, I for one will believe him.

 

[Mad_Jack_Rabbit]

Are you...Amish?

No, We don't have those in this country. We're too small an island for them to remain an isolated community. I understand that a colony of them run the Isle of Mann though.