Smart glasses aren't quite a mainstream thing just yet, but Amazon's doing its best to break through with the new Echo Frames.
That’s what my compatriot in the packed demo area at Amazon’s fall devices eventt said as we looked over the range of eyewear that comprises the new Amazon Echo Frames. For the most part, they do look exactly like the prescription glasses we’re all used to. Style-wise, you’d find these at any optician’s shop. That was true, too, for the sunglasses.
Related Everything looks perfectly normal from the front, anyway. Take ’em off and give ’em a better look, and you see where the work is being done. Tucked into the arms are the guts. The batteries and PCBs and buttons — and, most important, the speakers. Everything that makes the Echo Frames more than just … frames.
But that’s not to say they’re uncomfortable. Anything but, really. Never mind that nobody’s doing any sort of custom sizing in a demo situation — the several styles of Echo Frames I tried on felt just fine. Alexa is Alexa. That hasn’t changed, though the voice assistant is soon to inherit the powers of generative AI. In the Frames, Alexa is just that much closer to your ears. And there’s something definitively different knowing the voice assistant is basically living on your face. Weird? Maybe a little, especially if you trigger Alexa hands-free. But there’s no denying that it’s convenient.
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