For nearly two years Amazon Echo, Amazon’s voice commanded wireless speaker, which responds to “Alexa”, has been on the market. Apple, obviously one of the biggest tech companies in the world, has been rumored to be in the works of creating a device similar to the Echo but with a key addition: a super smart camera.
The appliance, like the Echo, will assist with providing information such as: answers to your questions, news, music, weather, etc and will evidently be using Siri as the narrator. On the other hand, the camera portion will use something called “facial recognition technology,” which would be able to detect familiar faces and pull up the individual’s preferences of things like music or lighting. So, not only will the device have the ability to hear your conversations, thanks to the mic, but it will be able to watch you, very sci-fi future creepy indeed.
The device will most likely cause controversy due to privacy invasion. Though, notwithstanding, the appliance is rumored to be released at the end of this year, but chances are said to be slim and it will more possible be made available to the public in 2017.
For now all that’s left to say is will you risk your privacy to purchase this gadget?
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