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Las Vegas (AFP) – Here are some key highlights of the 2017 International Consumer Electronics Show, which concluded Sunday: – Alexa everywhere – Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa was the surprise star of the show, with dozens of new products and services integrating the voice-accessed machine smarts into appliances, TVs, speakers, lamps, cars and more. Analysts

The virtual assistant Alexa stole this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) show which popped up in everything from copycat speakers to robots and connected to fridges. With this kind of technology, people can order pizza or whatever they want by talking to their table lamp. Even people who created Alexa are having a hard time

While smart homes are associated with a wide array of zany gadgets, from smart lamps to connected toasters, Lenovo is sticking to the basics with its smart home debut. The company’s new Smart Assistant is a speaker with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant for hands-free control of other smart devices—regardless of brand—around your home. Lenovo isn’t

Brooke Neitzel and her family donated a dollhouse to Medical City Children’s Hospital in Dallas Thursday. Photo: Courtesy A six-year-old girl who ordered a $162 dollhouse on her family’s Amazon Echo has donated it to pediatric patients at a Dallas hospital. Read: 6-Yr-Old Orders $162 Dollhouse, 4lbs Of Cookies Using Amazon’s ‘Alexa’ Brooke Neitzel ordered the

Posted Sun Jan 8, 2017 at 03:15 PM PST by Steven Cohen The unique smart speaker features the Alexa voice service. Onkyo has revealed its first audio product geared toward the IoT (internet of things) market. The VC-FLX1 smart speaker combines high quality audio playback with several smart device features. With Amazon’s Alexa cloud-based voice service, the

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — LG Electronics (LG) won more than 90 awards at CES® 2017, leading the way with the coveted, official Engadget CES Best of the Best Awards, for LG’s revolutionary new LG SIGNATURE W7 OLED 4K TV complemented by a variety of best-of-show honors for the W7 and LG Smart InstaView™

While many say CES 2017 was somewhat of a lackluster year for any sort of major breakthrough in technology, one key theme has been the increasingly ubiquitous use of voice assistants for devices of all types.  This week, a number of major tech brands announced that upcoming versions of their products will be equipped with

That’s a wrap on CES 2017! I didn’t attend Las Vegas this year, but having to oversee CES coverage from the same seat that I regularly do my job gave me a top-down perspective on how alternately tenuous and vacuous the whole thing seems. Some years, a particular trend stood out — 3D, or curved,