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Amazon's Alexa will be built into all new homes from Lennar
msn ^ | 05/09/2018 | Elizabeth Weise

Posted on 05/10/2018 8:13:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The nation’s largest home builder is betting voice-activated digital assistants and smart devices will become as expected in a new home as garages now are.

Lennar announced Wednesday that standard features in its new homes will include built-in Wi-Fi, smart locks, doorbells, thermostats and lights — all controlled by Alexa, Amazon’s voice-activated digital assistant.

Each house will come with two Alexa-enabled smart speakers, an Echo Show and an Echo Dot. New homeowners will also get a free visit from an Amazon technician to help set everything up and teach them how to use it.

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The 3,600-square-foot model home in Vallejo was set up with an Echo Show, an Alexa-enabled smart speaker with screen, an Amazon Echo Dot (a small, audio-only speaker) and a large, wall-mounted television linked to Amazon’s Fire TV digital media player.

Alexa was linked to the home's many smart devices. Ordering “Alexa, turn the temperature to 72,” reset the Honeywell thermostat. When the doorbell rang, saying “Alexa, who's at the door?” turned on the Ring video doorbell and showed a view of the front porch on the TV.

The house also featured other smart devices that could be added, including a smart sprinkler system for the yard and a smart Roomba vacuuming robot.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: alexa; amazon; homes; jeffbezos; lennar; seattle; washington
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1 posted on 05/10/2018 8:13:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Hello wiretap!


2 posted on 05/10/2018 8:14:21 AM PDT by barbarianbabs
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To: barbarianbabs

Big Bro be watchin’.


3 posted on 05/10/2018 8:16:44 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: BenLurkin

Velvet handcuffs.


4 posted on 05/10/2018 8:17:23 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: barbarianbabs

Hackers are gonna Part_e!


5 posted on 05/10/2018 8:17:42 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: BenLurkin

No thanks.


6 posted on 05/10/2018 8:17:52 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: BenLurkin

Not just no and not just the hell no GIF.

I’m talking class action lawsuit get this crap out of my house NO! UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES NO!


7 posted on 05/10/2018 8:19:36 AM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark (The American media: We do what the Soviet media did without the guns to our head.)
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To: barbarianbabs

Hello wire cutters. ;-) But, it seems a lot of people like it. Me, uh, no thanks. Kind of like “onstar”. Nope!


8 posted on 05/10/2018 8:19:45 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: BenLurkin

“Alexa, please list the social security numbers of all people listening to me in the shower right now.”

“You know I can’t do that.”


9 posted on 05/10/2018 8:20:00 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: BenLurkin

I digress, but would you new home builders build garages that actually fit two cars (and the people getting in and out of them) comfortably?


10 posted on 05/10/2018 8:20:07 AM PDT by Fair Paul
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To: rktman

Spectacularly stupid idea.


11 posted on 05/10/2018 8:20:25 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: BenLurkin

“THEY” keep coming for our..... (Fill in blanks!)....
@PlanetWTF???
++++++++++++++++++++++++


12 posted on 05/10/2018 8:20:44 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: barbarianbabs

What are you doing, Dave?


13 posted on 05/10/2018 8:21:34 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: rktman

What’s the problem—if you need privacy just go the house breaker box and shut off power for a while. ;-)


14 posted on 05/10/2018 8:21:39 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: BenLurkin

Open the front door, Alexa...............

15 posted on 05/10/2018 8:22:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: BenLurkin

Holy crap! Who goes for this stuff?


16 posted on 05/10/2018 8:24:34 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: BenLurkin
Technology makes our lives better...


17 posted on 05/10/2018 8:25:22 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: americas.best.days...

Alexa’s best potential use (imho) is for elder-care.

Every morning she can remind the dementia-addled person who they are, where they live, what they said they were going to do today, etc.

Also, she can play their favorite music, even if they forgot what it was! ;-)


18 posted on 05/10/2018 8:35:59 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: BenLurkin

I just wrote Lennar.

I was pleasant, but I told them that ‘Lennar’ and ‘Surveillance’ are now linked in terms of my perception of their products.

By all means, wire it, and terminate it. LET ME pick the control unit.


19 posted on 05/10/2018 8:37:42 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: cgbg

P.S. If our overlords decide it is time for the old person to die, Alexa will get that done as well.

“What is your preference, electrocution or lethal injection?” :-(


20 posted on 05/10/2018 8:37:47 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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