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Amazon Announces the New Echo Spot

January 20, 2018 by Average Joe Leave a Comment

Amazon Announces the All New Echo Spot

The Amazon Echo family has a new addition – the all new Echo Spot. It's a compact and stylish Echo - and this Echo has a screen! The Echo Spot enables you to take advantage of second-generation, far-field voice recognition to watch video briefings, see music lyrics, weather forecasts, to-do and shopping lists, browse and listen to Audible audiobooks, and much more. And of … [Read more...]

How to Set Up Philips Hue Lights and Connect Them to Amazon Echo

January 8, 2017 by Average Joe Leave a Comment

As you will see from the video, the first step is to download the Philips Hue app on your smart phone

The instructions that come with the Philips Hue White Lights Starter Kit are short and sweet, making it look easy to get into automated home lighting. But if you want to control your Philips Hue lights with Amazon Echo, aka Alexa, it’s not quite that easy. It took me a while to figure it out, in fact. Plus, you will need to repeat part of the process every time you add a new … [Read more...]

Video – What Can Amazon Echo Do?

December 22, 2016 by Average Joe Leave a Comment

Maggie relaxing with the dogs, elevating her sprained ankle, and listening to music without having to move - thanks to the Amazon Echo intelligent speaker. The Amazon Echo is over on the right, on top of the buffet

Amazon Echo is currently the number 1 bestselling high tech gadget on Amazon - but most people are still asking, "What Can Amazon Echo Do?" This post explains some of the amazing things that Amazon Echo can do. As soon as we got our Amazon Echo, we loved it. It makes a whole lot of things easier to do, and is a great addition to an ultra-modern home. Basically, Amazon … [Read more...]

Video – How to Set up the Amazon Echo on a Browser

December 18, 2016 by Average Joe Leave a Comment

Here's how to set up the Amazon Echo on a browser

How to Set up the Amazon Echo on a Browser It is really quite easy to set up an Amazon Echo on a browser. On a scale of one to ten, where one is opening a can of beer and ten is assembling a double bed from Ikea, setting up an Amazon Echo is about a two. We had few problems. Below is my video of how to set up the Amazon Echo on a browser. … [Read more...]

Best High Tech Gift: The Amazon Echo

December 1, 2016 by Average Joe Leave a Comment

Amazon Echo is a great addition to an ultra-modern home

We highly recommend the Amazon Echo (and the cheaper alternative, the Amazon Dot) as the best high tech gifts, for this and any other season. They make great, affordable gifts for almost anyone, even those who are not very techie. Basically, Amazon Echo does not ask you to change anything you do – it just makes many things that you already do much easier to do, in your home. It … [Read more...]

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Average Joe CyclistWelcome to our blog! I’m Joe Goodwill, and I spend my time testing and reviewing wearable tech (a tough job, but somebody has to do it). This blog features product reviews, news, and advice for people like you who want to use wearable tech - but who want to do their research and be really clear about what they are doing and what they are buying.
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