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moosey_club
October 31, 2017, 2:45pm
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I had a battery operated tin opener....only home type gadget i have bought...batteries eventually ran out so back on the old fashioned twister opener now....as much as i liked the battery version the traditional twister has to be one of the ultimate never fail utensils......simple to use....satisfying function....classic.


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October 31, 2017, 2:49pm
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Acquired myself an Alexa Dot today. Now I can set the central heating temperature by voice and can start my robot hoover by asking Alexa to release the robot, hehe.


My niece bought an Alexa for her birthday...."she knows everything" she told me......i asked her a few obscure questions and right enough the answers came....asked her to play some obscure music tracks....right enough they played.....

i was just about getting around to thinking  think i could do with one one of those when i realised i already have a smart @rse never wrong woman at home so why bother having two !!


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October 31, 2017, 4:06pm
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Ahem. It's Echo and Echo Dot. Amazon's voice assistant is named Alexa.  

I've got one of each but haven't had the chance to set them up properly yet. Will be fun to be able to use the Echo to turn on my TV by voice using the Harmony hub (which is the best techie purchase I've ever made bar none), especially if I'm fighting to change a nappy at the same time. You can apparently now use them as a cheap Sonos-alike by playing the same music on different Echo's at the same time. Not sure if this is just by the Amazon Prime Music subscription or not, however.

Apparently the Google Home is better for a range of searches and information, but integration with other stuff isn't as good yet.

Microsoft is bringing their Cortana voice assistant to smart speakers as well, but that will no doubt be a load of crap.

Get ready for annoyingly targeted advertising if you have one of these devices, that's all I can say.
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October 31, 2017, 9:57pm
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You get access to quite a lot of free music on Amazon Music without a subscription or you can just use it as a bluetooth speaker. Mine's linked to my ipad so I can play spotify through it.
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October 31, 2017, 10:07pm
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I have a neato, Philips hue bulbs and a Honeywell heating system..all controlled by voice via alexa  ..hoping to have a steam room fitted in attic soon with speakers that alexa can connect too  


Ahh, outstanding stuff mate.
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I have the Hive heating app. Great piece of kit!
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November 16, 2017, 3:40pm

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I Just bought the original xiaomi one.

Will it try and shag me?

Can it cope with going from tiles, to laminate, to carpet?

Will I still need hoover in the little cracks it can't reach?


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