Amazon comes up with another way to get Alexa into your home


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 27 Sep 2018

An Amazon Echo lowers the blinds and turns on mood lighting and the TV in response to a voice command in the living room of an Amazon ‘experience center’ in Vallejo, California, U.S., May 8, 2018. Picture taken on May 8, 2018. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage

Amazon.com Inc has shown a boundless desire to put its Alexa smart-home devices in every nook and cranny of people’s houses. Just last week, it announced a raft of new gadgets, including a microwave and clock. 

Now it’s making its first bet on a homebuilder. 

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