In this blog series, we will explore the new AT star, Amazon Echo. It was released November of 2014 with huge
assistive technology (AT) promise. Amazon Echo is a hands-free speaker
users control with their voice. Echo connects to the Alexa Voice Service to
play music, provide information, news, sports scores, weather, and
more. In the blog Amazon Echo Part 1: a consumer product with huge assistive
technology potential, we discussed the device’s out of the
box potential.
In this blog you will learn how Echo and IFTTT work together to make a powerful team. For those not
familiar with IFTTT, it stands for If This Then That. It’s an incredible
service that connects elements of your virtual and physical world to one other.
Think of it like a train station where your favorite websites and tech devices
connect with one another and exchange information to make life easier. There is
a term for this ever growing intersect of technology and it is called the Internet of Things (IoT). It is the
internetworking of physical devices, vehicles, buildings and other items –
embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network
connectivity that enable these objects to collect and exchange data.
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