New crowdfunding campaign wants to bring Amazon's Alexa to smartwatches

Amazon hasn't announced any plans to make its own smartwatch, but a new Indiegogo campaign is promising the next-best thing. Much like the Amazon Echo connected speaker, CoWatch will tap into Amazon's voice services for controlling smart home devices, ordering rides from Uber, adding things to your shopping list, and asking for traffic and weather reports, among other uses. There's no mention of any official involvement from Amazon, but that may not be necessary given that Alexa is now available to third-party hardware makers. Alexa aside, the CoWatch is fairly standard smartwatch fare, using Bluetooth to pair with either an Android phone or iPhone. It has a round, always-on Super AMOLED display, stainless steel and zirconia ceramic body, step counter, heart rate sensor, and water resistance.