The Alexa maker’s annual fall product launch event centered on making its disparate products work better together — and making surveillance sound helpful
Amazon is hoping to deepen its reach into your home, with new products to track your sleep, operate your TV and even help you scribble notes while you read.
One thing missing from this year’s Amazon event were new products that sound far-out — and perhaps half-baked. In past years, Amazon announced a domestic robot named Astro, a home surveillance drone called the Always Home Cam, both of which still aren’t sold to the general public. The Astro robot did make an appearance at Wednesday’s event to introduce some new software features, including the ability to serve as a remote security officer.
As with many of its other product categories, Amazon has dueling tablet brands. Kindle, the older one, is for e-ink tablets that until now focused on a very narrow use case: reading. Its Fire tablets are its full-color, low-cost Android devices that are crammed with apps and distractions. The allure of the Kindle has always been that it goes out of its way to do less, with a battery that lasts longer.
Amazon says it can also track your breathing and movement at night, using AI to determine where you are in your sleep cycle so it can give suggestions to improve the quality of sleep. It uses that info to wake you up at the optimal part of the sleep cycle, when you’re in a light sleep. When the time is right, it will awaken you with the gentle light of a sunrise. Amazon says the device will use all that data to give you a summary of your night, including how long you were asleep.
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