Amazon releases indoor air quality monitor for your home

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If you want a way to monitor your indoor air quality, Amazon has launched a new Smart Air Quality Monitor for your home. The Alexa-powered smart home device can check your house for carbon monoxide, humidity, temperature, dust, and volatile organic compounds. If the air is unhealthy, Alexa will alert you through the mobile app or an Echo device. You can also ask Alexa about the air quality anytime. Echo devices with displays can show you a detailed breakdown of its findings.

The Smart Air Quality Monitor is available for pre-order now for $89.99, but the first orders won't ship until December 8.

Source: Engadget

Amazon Alexa can now wait a bit before it answers your questions

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Amazon has updated Alexa to make it wait a bit before it responds to your queries. This feature will come in handy if you have a long question to ask the digital assistant or if you have a speech impediment and it takes you a bit more time to ask or say something. You can enable this functionality in the Alexa app.

Android users in the US can now also type in their requests in the Alexa app. It's in public preview right now, and we're hoping Amazon rolls it out more widely later.

Source: The Verge

Amazon Echo Show 15 is a mountable Alexa-enabled smart display

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One of the new Echo devices Amazon launched earlier this week turns the Echo Show into a mountable smart display. The Echo Show 15 sports a 15.6-inch 1080p HD touchscreen with a microphone with a mute button, a front-facing camera with a physical shutter, and side-firing speakers. 

It comes in this black-framed option, and you can choose to mount it horizontally or vertically or place it on the stand. The mounting accessories will come with the device, while the counter stand will be sold separately. It looks like Amazon wants you to mount this device.

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Amazon Glow is a video chat device for kids

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Amazon's new video chat device is its take on Facebook's Portal, but it's specifically designed for kids to video chat with remote family and friends. The Amazon Glow is equipped with a vertical smartphone-like 8-inch LCD screen with a 19-inch touch-sensitive area and a giant speaker case. As Gizmodo describes it, the Glow looks like a big large '90s-era cellphone.

Kids can share their "virtual space" via the Amazon Glow app, and those on the other end (like grandparents) can use Alexa on Android and iOS to interact with the child. Strangely enough, Amazon hasn't brought compatibility to its Fire OS at launch. That's coming at a later date.

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