GE has a smart light unlike any other, since it comes with Amazon Alexa baked in.
We’ve all been there. You want to ask Alexa a question, but your Echo is all the way in the kitchen, and you are sitting in the living room. If only an appliance in there were smart, as well.
Well, GE to the rescue. The company has just announced more information on its smart lamp, including its price and when it will be released. But this device isn’t like any smart light you’ve seen before — it has a smart speaker baked right in to it. So how does it work?
In IT Blogwatch, we flip a switch.
So what is going on? Nick Pino has some background:
If it has Alexa, does it do everything that an Echo can do? Ry Crist is in the know:
Sounds intriging. What about the light itself. Anything interesting about it? Brittany A. Roston has some details:
What about compatibility with other products. Don’t Echoes have that capability? Derek Walter tells us what the Sol can do:
So when will this be available? And how much will it cost? Nat Levy has that info:
So do we know what the end goal is here? Not really, but Brittany Goetting has a theory:
