If you have ever been bumping down a country road, belting out your favorite tunes from the car stereo, only to have it turn to angry static the moment you enter a radio signal-free zone, then you know precisely what it was like to wake up every morning in our bedroom with a crummy old clock radio.
It is a pitiable way to start the day’s NPR updates reduced to a series of broken phrases, like a deranged Mad Lib, daggers thrown by your spouse because you insisted on bringing that cursed electronic into her life.
Well, problem solved, relationship healed, we’re gonna live happily ever after.
The Echo Dot (5th Gen) with clock entered our world and has been a revelation.
At a glance we check the time without fiddling with anything (it’s got a cool retro LED clock!). Whatever audio I want to listen to—music, radio, podcasts, news, books— streams in clarion perfection, and in an instant using a voice command to the third partner in our marriage (Alexa). Setting an alarm clock involves no hacking of arcane menus or button mashing as before.
Rarely has a relationship win been so thoroughly, easily, and affordably achieved.
from Wirecutter: Reviews for the Real World https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/echo-dot-review/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS%20Feed
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