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Sign into your accountDigital Dawn: Amazon Is Creating the Smart House for the Rest of Us
April 07 2016
Late Christmas morning, after the presents were opened, the wrapping discarded and breakfast consumed, my wife sent a text to her real best friend Paige that read, "I have a new best friend!" Paige promptly responded with "Huh?" "Her name is Alexa, as in the new Amazon Echo," my wife texted back.
How lucky am I, as a guy, to have a wife who put at the top of her gift list a technology item? But more important was her reaction. She genuinely fell in love with Alexa within minutes after turning it on. It was wickedly cool and ridiculously smart responding to our verbal commands without any voice training. Dragon dictation be damned!
That signature moment was ingrained in my brain as I walked among 125,000 others at the National Association of Home Builder's International Builders Show earlier this year, gawking at the half-million square feet occupied by 1,400 exhibitors.
What I came to realize in the short time I spent in Vegas was that the smart home we've all been reading about and talking about literally for decades, the one enjoyed by gazillionaires and hobbyists, is about to be delivered, for real this time – and for the rest of us – by no less than Amazon.