Amazon wants Alexa everywhere.
The online shopping giant said Wednesday that
it will soon start selling wireless earbuds, finger
rings and prescription eyeglasses with its Alexa
voice assistant built in.
The goal: Get Alexa outside the home and
wherever customers are.
“You can have Alexa with you 24/7,” said Werner
Goertz, a personal technology analyst at Gartner.
It also launched its first celebrity voice for
Alexa: actor Samuel L. Jackson. For $4.99, Alexa
users can now ask Jackson to sing them happy
birthday or tell them the weather. There will be
a “clean” version for those who don’t want to
hear Jackson curse. Amazon said other celebrity
voices will be added next year.