On Monday, we heard a report that Amazon can be asserting an unprecedented variety of voice-activated good dwelling devices — including a microwave. Now, it seems that two of these devices have leaked, because of Amazon’s personal web site.
Pocket-lint, a UK tech website, found listings for the Amazon Echo Sub, a 6-inch, 100-watt subwoofer designed to pair with as much as two Amazon Echo audio system to assist fill a room with sound, and a brand new Amazon Smart Plug that might allow you to management {an electrical} outlet with Alexa voice instructions as nicely.
It is notably intriguing that Amazon would possibly quickly assist you to pair two Echos collectively to create a stereo sound system with distinct left and proper channels. Final we checked, that wasn’t attainable. You can do multiroom playback the place every of your audio system is taking part in the identical music in sync, however they will be taking part in it in mono. (The Alexa-equipped Sonos One does help stereo pairing, although.)
In response to Pocket-lint, the brand new merchandise had been simply sitting on Amazon’s website ready to be found at the moment — although the hyperlinks have since been taken down.
Because the publication notes, although, you would possibly need to take the costs listed in these screenshots with a grain of salt.
Whereas £75 (roughly $100 or AU$135) may be an inexpensive worth for a wi-fi subwoofer, £95 for a sensible plug is most definitely not. Our favorite smart plugs can sometimes be had for as little as $20.
So these may be two of the eight or extra devices that CNBC reported that Amazon would possibly reveal by the top of this 12 months. We’ll have to attend and see if others leak out — and if it is true that Amazon is going audiophile now.
Amazon did not instantly reply to a request for remark.