Hound-powered Hurricane on Kickstarter is the DJ's Echo Pocketnow

Boombotix is an audio hardware startup that prides itself on headphones and customizable Bluetooth speakers. But with the smart speaker industry growing like popcorn and one major voice assistant service underrepresented, the company thinks it can find its own niche in bringing the Hurricane speaker to Kickstarter for a round of crowdfunding. Hurricane is powered by Houndify code from the makers of music recognition service SoundHound and the wider-appeal Hound service. It's being touted as "the first ever voice activated DJ with Artificial Intelligence" that educates itself on your musical desires to provide continuous music. The "Personalized music ALgorithm" or "PAL," logs the times of your requests and metadata on what music you listen to. Hound also provides all the usual answers to requests for general information and third-party services like IFTTT, Uber and Nest.