Echo by Amazon - A hands-free speaker you control with your voice

Here we go guys, this sort of thing is the start of the AI revolution.

Throwing cash at my screen

Looks like we're one step closer to Jarvis. Can't wait for an API to hack on!

While cool, I see see an army of hackers trying to use them to listen in on people's homes. So I'll be interested in the security features. TechCrunch had an article that summed it up as a always on shopping cart. Add things to it, have them delivered without thinking twice. edit - I can't wait to hear the 2am drunk ordering stories. Trying to get refunds for something embarrassing and the amazon customer service rep playing back the customer's voice order. "Well sir, this sounds like your voice ordering the Marge Simpson blowup sex doll."

This is pretty cool. I never use Siri or other voice commands through my phone but I can see myself using this since "it's always listening" and you never have to take out a phone or press any buttons. One thing I'm curious about is the speaker quality for playing music. I'm a huge fan of Sonos (I'm not expecting Echo to provide anything close to the sound quality of Sonos, at least not yet) but it would be awesome if Sonos added this functionality sometime in the near future.

Please take my money. I can think of a few ways this would be fun and convenient in my little SF apartment:)

NSA's best ever dream coming true. However I still love it and can't wait to get one.

It's times like this where I wish I had signed up for Prime...

This reminds me very much of the Nabaztag, for those who remember what it was!

This seems pretty exciting. I have a morning habit of checking phone for weather, queueing podcasts, etc etc - would be really great to just yell at something else to do it. I get the "creepy factor" but I guess I just don't care. Maybe it's because I know all my neighbors can hear me anyway.