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hey guys this is Ken as you might have

noticed I'm not Austin and that's cuz he

couldn't make it today so welcome to the

first episode of Ken goes to things that

Austin can't go to we're here at

Amazon's day1 HQ to take a look at some

of the new products they dropped and

they dropped a lot and I don't think I

can cover all of it in this video but

this will just be the things that I

found most interesting today firstly

they announced a lot of improvements to

Alexa so one of the things that they're

doing is making her seem a lot more

human-like so for example one of the

focuses is contextual conversation so

you ask Alexa question and she asks

normally but what you can do now is ask

her follow-up questions without having

to manually trigger her it seems a lot

more natural unlike other assistants on

other platforms Siri apart from that one

of the main focuses of the show were the

new slate of echo products so there's a

lot to cover there but some of the ones

that stood out to me were for example

the echo dot up next to the original

echo dot it's definitely way more

chunkier it has a felt finish but most

importantly it's supposed to be 70%

louder and sound way more fuller than

the original echo dot and at a $50 price

point which puts it right up next to the

Google home Mini which is really cool I

actually want to grab one of those right

now so one of the things that people did

with the original echo dot was plug it

into speakers they already had well

Amazon saw the opportunity so they made

the echo input what is basically an echo

dot but without the speaker or the felt

which is cool

it's at $35 which is a decent chunk of

change compared to the echo dot that's

going on sale if you want to save money

and just plug it into speaker well this

is a really good option so on the higher

end of that where the echo input is a

lower end solution to plugging into

setup that you already have the echo

link and the echo link amp are meant to

plug into your hi-fi setup that you

might have already both of them have

24-bit Doc's to work with your existing

hi-fi setup at home which will work

great for services like tidal which they

just added support for you can just plug

in the link to a receiver you have

already or you can buy the amp which is

basically a kind of receiver that can

drive speakers with dual 60 watt

channels as well the link will be

available for $1.99 and the link amp

will be available for two

the former will be available sometime

this year

and the amp will be available sometime

in 2019 they're also giving Sonos a run

for its money with its multiple and

stereo room capabilities so you can tie

multiple echoes together and essentially

play them in different rooms or if you

have two in the same room you can have

them run in stereo they actually have a

demo of it right there with echo dots

and it sounded pretty good don't but it

sounded pretty good they also added the

echo sub which is at $130 and you can

add that to any echo setup that you have

if you say have to echo dots that are at

$50 each and you have the echo sub

that's at $130 for what is essentially

$230 you have a decent 2.1 set up that

will have a decent punch and sound great

so among the other announcement noise

amazon also unveiled Echo Auto so it's

available later this year for $50 or $25

for an invite only thing whatever that

means it's a module that connects to

your car via bluetooth or auxin

basically makes your car a smart car so

Echo Auto uses your phone your voice and

Alexa to control things like your music

or you can ask it directions and it'll

open up whatever GPS or map app you use

and you can even control your home stuff

because Alexa's in it and it does that

oh don't don't stop stop let's just mute

these we're good now so Amazon down this

hallway may or may not have the future

of the kitchen or something like that so

right behind me is the thing that I've

been looking forward to forever

it's the amazonbasics microwave that

cost $60 and if you pair it with an echo

you can basically have a bunch of

presets on tap to say heat up a potato

or popcorn or my pizza rolls

I guess a ton of microwave microwaving

is done by customers for popcorn

so this microwave actually keep track of

how much popcorn you've cooked and then

order more so that you never run out

will never never be popcorn less the

futures here welcome to 2018