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Amazon's Echo devices are on sale right now, and if you're looking to grab onto the leading edge of the sci-fi future promised to us in movies, Echo is a great place to start. Video phones never really caught on in the way the 1990s thought they would, but we do have the new Echo Show, which is about as close as you can get. And the voice-controlled future of Star Trek is baked right into every Echo device.
What's even cooler is the integration of Amazon's Alexa service into non-Echo devices. There's a wide assortment of household electronics and appliances with Alexa built-in, and even more that work with the help of an Echo device. The AmazonBasics microwave, for example, can be controlled with your voice by pairing it with an Echo device. Picking up a remote control is some last-century nonsense. We don't have mind-controlled devices (yet), so this is as close as it gets without getting creepy.
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