Amazon Echo speakers obey TV's command to buy a dollhouse

One of the unintended results of our growing world of voice-activated devices and assistants is that they can be inadvertently set to a task. We first caught a glimpse of that problem two and a half years ago when an Xbox One ad woke Xbox consoles across the globe. More recently, Amazon's Alexa ended up inadvertently obeying a command from broadcast TV to make a purchase on Amazon--or at least that's what some Echo owners claim. It all started a few days ago when a 6-year-old girl in Texas asked Alexa to "play dollhouse with me and get me a dollhouse." Alexa quickly complied with the request and ordered the child a dollhouse from Amazon, as well as four pounds of cookies, according to CBS DFW.