You May Already Own An Amazon Echo Show -- You Just Don't Know It

Have you got an Amazon Fire Tablet gathering dust in a drawer somewhere? Then why not turn it into a full-fledged Amazon Echo digital assistant device? That's now a possibility thanks to Amazon's new Show Mode, which essentially turns your tab into a dedicated Echo-display device, much like the Echo Show and Spot models, making Alexa a lot more portable in your ever-expanding smart home. Compatible with both the Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 tablets, Show Mode brings Alexa to the forefront of the Fire Tablet. As with the Show and Spot, when you ask Alexa something, the digital assistant's answers will be backed up by visuals – think weekly weather icons, music album covers, song lyrics, that sort of thing.