Amazon Echo Silver for the Greatest Generation

[grnidone]

And it has an "uh huh" feature for long, rambling stories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvT_gqs5ETk

[rcjordan]

Judging from my reader, that is getting massive buzz for AMZ.

[Rupert]

Thats funny

[littleman]

I bet it is only a matter of time until there is a real Echo Silver type product.

[grnidone]

>I bet it is only a matter of time until there is a real Echo Silver type product.

Oh, I think there will be.  After all, the iPad came about after this SNL skit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTzhXMbOWHE

[Travoli]

Great skit.

[rcjordan]

related "for the Greatest Generation"

Reddit says Amazon Echo on sale on QVC Sunday May 21. ^{(no link or citation, though)}

On QVC, eh?  Yep, that's the jugular of the Silver crowd.  Stick a fork in it, G, Echo has won.

[littleman]

I just watched a movie that reminded me of this thread and other conversations we've had about technology taking care of the elderly.  It is called Robot & Frank, from 2012 and is suppose to take place in the near future.  In this world most of the elderly have service bots that take care of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_%26_Frank

There is a quiet but interesting plot to the story, but I won't get into it.

[rcjordan]

Judging from the news articles, Japan is significantly ahead of the rest of the world in robotic elder care. But, damn, the prices are astronomically high. Even after the bleeding edge dulls, they are going to be too pricey for the masses for quite a while.

Meanwhile, where's my damn^$300-ish robot puppy?