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Everything Amazon announced at its 2023 Devices and Services event
Amazon's fall hardware event was chock full of updates. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the generative AI boom from the last year, the company began transforming Alexa into a much more versatile and conversational personal chatbot. But it also had plenty of new hardware to introduce, with new models of the Echo Show, security cameras, Echo Frames, a 10-gigabit router and more. Here's everything Amazon unveiled on Wednesday. As generative AI has exploded in popularity during the last year, task-focused personal assistants like Siri, Google Assistant and Alexa now seem even more dated than they did before.
Amazon's new Echo Show 8 has a camera that can track you around a room
Amazon is upgrading two of its smart displays and adding another one to the lineup. The new Echo Show 8 has a 13-megapixel, wide-angle camera that can follow you as you move around the room. The device uses virtual panning and tilting, like Facebook's Portal display, and it's a useful feature if you like to move around a little while you're on video calls. The Echo Show 8 now has an adaptive color display that parallels the ambient light in the room. The device also boasts an octa-core processor and dual stereo speakers.