![]() ![]() Either that or staying up all night wondering why nobody ever swipes right on you… I’d, erm, imagine. You may compare to the way Victorian ‘knocker-uppers’ became equally defunct when alarm clocks themselves first became widely available.īut while smartphones all come packing an alarm app capable of disturbing even teenagers from their slumber, experts with brains immeasurably larger than ours in the fields of psychology (and something I’ll just label ‘sleep science’) are pointing a big scientific finger of blame at said smartphones as the cause of rising insomnia cases.Īccording to an official-looking site on the internet, the blue light emitted by the devices delays the production of melatonin in the brain, making it difficult to doze off and leading to a complete failure to achieve 40 winks that is followed by a world of fatigue. If you don’t want to have your phone next to you while you sleep, perhaps the Echo Spot is a good, less sleep-disturbing surrogate alarm clock.In an age where pretty much anyone with opposable thumbs is in possession of an all-singing, all-dancing, fancy Dan smartphone, the standalone alarm clock may seem like outmoded technology. Most will use it on a desk or as a bedside clock. It does makes an excellent music control device, with album art, voice and touch screen control when plugged into a hifi though. It sounds pretty good for a small smart speaker, but not when compared to a traditional wireless speaker costing £120, and not a patch on a traditional Echo. It does everything you might want from a smart speaker, while adding a clock, at-a-glance information and an easy-to-use touchscreen interface for accessing additional features. The Echo Spot is an attractive little addition to Amazon’s smart speaker range. The Alexa-integrated Sonos One costs £199, the Google Home costs £129 and Home Mini costs £49. The Amazon Echo Spot costs £120 for one, in black or white, or two for £200.įor comparison, the Echo Show costs £200, the second-generation Amazon Echo costs £90, the Echo Plus costs £140 and the smaller Echo Dot costs £50. ![]() A blue ring around the screen indicates the direction the Spot thinks you’re talking from.Video can be maximised to fill the circular screen, zoomed a little or displayed to fit the diameter of the screen.There’s a small progress bar that circles the screen when playing audio or video.You can use it as a Bluetooth speaker and also send audio from it to another Bluetooth speaker. ![]()
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