Time for a New High-Tech Clock
In today’s always-connected, ever-moving world, knowing the time is
just one piece of an endless supply of information you could require at
any given moment.
Fortunately, the newest models of smart clocks have taken this into consideration and aim to be one-stop informational portals.
Below are a few choice devices for telling the time—and just about everything else.
The smartphone may have killed the alarm clock, but Amazon hopes to give it a second life with the latest in its Echo line of products, the Echo Spot—an alarm clock that can do just about everything your smartphone can. The small(ish) semi-spherical device features a flat-face, circular touchscreen, which can feature any number of classic clock displays, but is also available for playing TV, placing video calls or streaming connected home camera footage. And because it’s an Echo, it comes with Amazon’s A.I. assistant Alexa equipped, allowing users to make use of the Echo’s ever-expanding body of skills, from ordering food and playing trivia to weather updates and the latest news briefs—and much more. More relevantly for alarm clock purposes, users can lean on Alexa to set alarms, and ask it to operate other smart home products for the morning routine—slowly raising your bedroom lights as a good morning greeting, for example.
The Amazon Echo Spot is available for $129
The Glance clock is a near-perfect marriage of the classic and the contemporary. Featuring the minimal clock face design that marked so many timepieces of the past, the circular and flat Glance offers elegant intelligence via a connection to just about any third party application you use, and a series of light-up tiles that comprise the background of the clock face. The Glance will sync with your calendars, smart home devices, wearables and other apps to display weather, upcoming meetings, incoming phone calls, important reminders, number of steps taken that day or updates on when your Uber is outside. For time-specific tasks, the tiles will cleverly coordinate with the physical hands on the clock face, counting down the minutes to your next meeting, for example, or the time until a preset alarm sounds. The end result is a wealth of information that never feels obtrusive.
The Glance is currently sold out, but pre-orders for the next round, expected to ship in May, are available for $199.
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Fortunately, the newest models of smart clocks have taken this into consideration and aim to be one-stop informational portals.
Below are a few choice devices for telling the time—and just about everything else.
The smartphone may have killed the alarm clock, but Amazon hopes to give it a second life with the latest in its Echo line of products, the Echo Spot—an alarm clock that can do just about everything your smartphone can. The small(ish) semi-spherical device features a flat-face, circular touchscreen, which can feature any number of classic clock displays, but is also available for playing TV, placing video calls or streaming connected home camera footage. And because it’s an Echo, it comes with Amazon’s A.I. assistant Alexa equipped, allowing users to make use of the Echo’s ever-expanding body of skills, from ordering food and playing trivia to weather updates and the latest news briefs—and much more. More relevantly for alarm clock purposes, users can lean on Alexa to set alarms, and ask it to operate other smart home products for the morning routine—slowly raising your bedroom lights as a good morning greeting, for example.
The Amazon Echo Spot is available for $129
The Glance clock is a near-perfect marriage of the classic and the contemporary. Featuring the minimal clock face design that marked so many timepieces of the past, the circular and flat Glance offers elegant intelligence via a connection to just about any third party application you use, and a series of light-up tiles that comprise the background of the clock face. The Glance will sync with your calendars, smart home devices, wearables and other apps to display weather, upcoming meetings, incoming phone calls, important reminders, number of steps taken that day or updates on when your Uber is outside. For time-specific tasks, the tiles will cleverly coordinate with the physical hands on the clock face, counting down the minutes to your next meeting, for example, or the time until a preset alarm sounds. The end result is a wealth of information that never feels obtrusive.
The Glance is currently sold out, but pre-orders for the next round, expected to ship in May, are available for $199.
Oboo
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