Amazon is developing a premium Echo-like speaker with a screen, a sign the world's largest online retailer is trying to capitalize on the surprise success of its voice-controlled home gadgets and fend off competition from Google and Apple.
I had some family over last weekend and they were pretty impressed that I was able to control my lights with my voice. I told them it actually wasn't that hard, or expensive, to get started with their own smart homes. Then, like anything else, they could slowly build out from there, adding new automatic gadgets and dongles until the whole house was the smartest in the neighborhood.