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Amazon surprised us at its Fall Devices and Services event with its new Luna cloud gaming service, along with long-awaited updates to its Echo, Fire TV and Ring product line. The event helps Amazon build excitement as we move into the holiday shopping season and, for the first time, Prime day. (The annual sale usually takes place in July, but this year it’s scheduled to start on October 13.) That means putting Alexa everywhere, in and out of homes, and tackling privacy concerns, which were a big story in 2019 for both Ring and Alexa. In a home life existence, with millions of us huddled together for the long haul, the connected home concepts that Amazon has been developing for years have become more relevant than ever.
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The company’s Echo and Fire TV products will be the first to earn sustainability badges, and it is working to reduce power consumption on all devices with a new low-power mode and a power panel integrated with Alexa. Amazon also promised to build solar and wind farms to generate power to match the consumption of all its devices.
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The company launched a cloud gaming service in addition to Amazon Web Services that runs on PCs, Fire TVs, and even iOS. There’s a Luna Plus gaming channel with a select set of games, and Amazon is partnering with publisher Ubisoft for the availability of some of them from day one.
It has a $ 50 custom controller that connects directly to the cloud instead of the local device.
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This is the custom controller that connects directly to the cloud, which Amazon claims reduces round-trip latency by 17 milliseconds to 30 ms, compared to a controller connected via Bluetooth to a PC, Mac, or Fire TV.
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Redesigned with a new spherical shape and able to adapt to room acoustics, the fourth-generation Echo incorporates features previously on the Echo Plus. It’s also a bridge to Amazon’s Sidewalk network and includes neural network technology to speed up Alexa.
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It has the same redesign as the Spherical Echo, but now sports a stylish cloth cover and a better speaker.
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Also spherical, with some kid-friendly features, the Kid’s Edition includes voice profiles for kids and Sidekick, allowing Alexa to read to them.
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It now has Zigbee and Sidewalk axles, and is quiet when it turns in their direction. For added privacy, there is a built-in camera shutter, and all Echo devices will have a command to review the privacy settings and “erase everything I have said.” It will also support Hulu, Netflix, and Prime Video.
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The Pro 6 is basically the same as the Eero 6, but is designed to handle higher-bandwidth connections, up to gigabit, instead of 500Mbps.
Ring Car Products: $ 60- $ 200
Three new Ring products focused on the car
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Ring’s $ 200 Ring Car Cam will help users document traffic stops, collisions, and other road events.
Debuting with Tesla, the $ 200 Connect uses a vehicle’s built-in external cameras to capture video in the event something happens to the car while driving or parked.
Lastly, the $ 60 Ring Car Alarm connects to your car’s on-board diagnostic port and uses sound sensors and accelerometer to monitor the vehicle for bumps, theft, towing, or other events.
There are no product pages on Amazon yet, but we’ll add them here when they arrive.
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It’s similar to the all-new Fire TV Stick, but it lacks the TV controls built into the remote.
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Correction, September 24: The maximum resolution of the Fire TV Stick is 1080p, not 4K as a previous version of this story said.
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