Oh my gosh! My first Amazon Echo review.

I got picked by Amazon to be able to purchase an Echo. (you have to request an invite to buy).

I am an Amazon Prime member, so I got a discount on it, it is the coolest toy ever. I will have to post an in depth review with videos of me playing with it when I have a bit more time.

It is basically a pretty decent speaker (has to be plugged into the wall though) that you talk to and it performs a variety of functions, it "learns" and will have more capabilities later on. I am hoping for different voices and wake words. It's wake word is Alexa, after the library of Alexandria. If you have Amazon prime you have access to millions of songs for free (and can play your playlists) if not, you can set up iheart radio to it, you can set iheart radio to it even if you do have Amazon prime though.

So far I have had it; play me music, tell me the news (from NPR!!), give me the weather, add items to my shopping list, spell words, do math problems, define words, tell me facts, set an alarm, and tell me jokes. Oh and I discovered if you say, "Alexa who let the dogs out?" it replies, "who who who who." cracked me up! It also responds when you ask it what the fox says!

Oh and if Echo can't answer a question it will send you a link to a bing search to your companion app. Evan asked it a lot of random things, so I have been getting quite a few links sent to me.

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