Image: Sharp When Amazon released a cheap microwave with built-in Alexa integration, most of us scratched our heads for a second and then quickly moved on. But now Sharp has created its own microwave powered by Amazon’s digital assistant, and somehow it’s even more confounding than the original. Advertisement Unlike the $60 Amazon Basics microwave with Alexa, Sharp’s microwave features a much more luxe design and a higher price tag, with the Sharp Smart Countertop Microwave Oven available in two sizes: a $150 1.1-cubic-foot model or a $170 1.4-cubic-foot version. Even for the cheapest model, that’s nearly three times the price of Amazon’s model, which is a significant amount of frozen chicken tendies.