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Amazon dropped the price for the Echo Wall Clock, the extremely helpful visible countdown display for the Alexa timer Amazon Alexa’s voice-controlled timer is the most useful out-of-the-box feature of ...

In September, Amazon took the wraps off the Echo Wall Clock, a seemingly basic analog clock with the ability to pair with an Echo device. In addition to its traditional appearance, the Echo Wall Clock ...

Editors Note: Just in time for Memorial Day, the Echo Wall Clock is on sale for just $24.95 with free Prime shipping. Chances are you’ve heard of Amazon Alexa and the first party Echo devices. But did ...

We had mixed feelings about the Echo Wall Clock when Amazon first announced it. After trying it for ourselves, however, we’re totally sold. Mount the Echo Wall Clock on the wall in your kitchen and ...

I really didn’t think the world needed an Alexa clock when Amazon first announced the Echo Wall Clock. Now, I can’t imagine being without it. It’s so awesome to be able to set a timer with Alexa on ...

“Alexa, set a timer for 10 minutes,” I say in the kitchen as I’m putting a pot of water on a burner, followed by “Alexa, set a timer for 20 minutes” as I pop some lasagne in the oven for reheating.

Amazon’s Alexa, the artificially intelligent voice assistant with thousands of apps and skills, cannot do everything. It is not particularly good at understanding natural language — that is to say, ...

Amazon is intent on getting Alexa into just about every object in your home. While the voice assistant started embedded in smart speakers, it has since expanded into devices that are suited to the ...

One of Alexa’s more practical, everyday uses is setting timers – helpful when cooking, remembering to perform some task, or alerting kids it’s bedtime, among other things. Today, Amazon is improving ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Amazon has just announced the Echo Wall Clock, a new Echo accessory for displaying timers you’ve set with Alexa ...

Amazon keeps rolling out new Alexa devices this morning at its event in Seattle. And just now, the company announced the launch of a new Alexa device – in a clock. Yes, there’s now an Echo Wall Clock ...