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The $180 Amazon Echo Hub is a simple, customizable control panel for an Alexa smart home. It’s also a smart home hub, working as a Matter controller, Thread border router, and Zigbee hub.

The third-gen Echo Show 8 adds better touch controls and a smart home hub for a higher price.

My favorite new feature on the third-generation Echo Show 8 ($149.99) is the widgets. They turn the smart display into a more effective touchscreen

The latest Lenovo smart clock puts Alexa inside this digital alarm clock for the first time. With a monochrome, black-and-white LED screen, there are no touch controls or photo or video options, but there’s also no camera on board.

Barnes & Noble’s Nook GlowLight 4e is the newest budget-friendly e-reader alternative to Amazon’s Kindle. Its most distinguishing feature is its physical page-turning buttons, something e-readers in this price range typically lack.

Amazon’s Astro household robot is designed for home monitoring and pairs with a Ring Alarm system. But it also wants to be your friend, and that’s more than a little weird.

For $20 a month and an Echo smart speaker, Alexa Together is a service designed to help elderly and vulnerable people live independently for longer while staying connected to their loved ones.

The Echo Show 15 is a wall-mounted smart display with a 15.6 inch screen designed to be a kitchen TV and family communication hub, all powered by Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant.

Amazon’s new second-generation Echo Buds are the company’s second crack at true wireless earbuds. They’re smaller, lighter, and more comfortable than before, and now have more effective noise cancellation. The first time around, Amazon borrowed some of Bose’s tech to help the original Echo Buds block outside noise, but version two was built completely in-house. Hands-free Alexa voice commands still get top billing, but the most compelling thing about the Echo Buds is still their aggress...