Astro Household Robot
Combined with the Ring Protect Pro subscription, you get additional home security features such as the ability to proactively patrol your home and send you notification alerts if it detects something unusual. In addition, it will also help aging parents when paired with Alexa Together (more on this below).
Echo Show 15
One key highlight of the Echo Show 10 has to be the new visual ID facial recognition feature. With Visual ID, Alexa can recognize when you are in Echo Show camera’s field of view. After successful recognition, the display will show personalized content based on your profile. Visual ID is optional, and is not enabled by default. Image processing takes place on-device and you have the option to delete your visual ID profile.
Echo Show 15 is priced at $249.99.
Halo View and Halo Fitness
Halo Fitness is part of Halo membership that’s priced at $3.99/ month. It will be available to all Halo members later this year. You also get Halo Nutrition, a meal planner to easily plan out your meal with over 500 recipes with the membership.
Ring Always Home Cam
Ring Alarm Pro and Ring Edge
Blink Doorbell, Floodlight Cam, & Blink Solar Panel Mount
Blink Video Doorbell costs $49.99, while Blink Floodlight Cam is priced at $130.98. Getting the new Blink Solar Panel Mount will cost you $129.98. All three products are up for pre-orders in the U.S. today.
Alexa Improvements
One privacy-friendly upgrade to existing 4th-generation Echo and EchoShow 10 speakers is on-device voice processing. The customers in the U.S. will soon be able to choose to process Alexa voice requests on-device without sending them to the cloud.
Going forward, you can teach Alexa your preferences, say your dietary needs. Moreover, users can teach Alexa to recognize custom sounds next year. For instance, you can teach Alexa to learn the beeping sound of your refrigerator and have Alexa send a notification if you forget to close the door (that’s smart).
Another new feature coming soon to more Echo devices is ultrasound motion detection. The feature will come in handy for tasks like turning off your TV when you’re away. Meanwhile, Ringer cameras are getting custom event alerts to create personalized detectors specific to objects in your home.
